Painting a Snow Scene in Watercolour
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- One of the resources for watercolour painters at www.grahameboot.... Grahame Booth demonstrates his approach to a snow subject. Subtitles in many languages are available for this video
Many people teach but there are few real teachers. It’s a true gift and you certainly have it.
Simply exquisite! I am 66 years young and have finally brushed the dust off of my art supplies after 40 long years. I have been challenging myself to learn the wonderful art of watercolors and admire your work so very much. I have avidly hunted down every tutorial of yours that I can possibly find on UTube. You are such an inspiring and superbly talented artist as well as being the most incredible teacher. If I could wish for anything, I would wish that there were more of your videos that I could follow. Unfortunately, I am not in the financial position that I could attend any of your workshops. I did actually take the time to check them out and will keep them all on my bucket list. 😊👩🦳🖌️
this video was posted 8 years ago, so I was surprised to see a recent comment. I am 71 and retired and finally have time to learn watercolor. I love this style of semi-abstract landscapes. Good luck in your journey! If you haven't already done so, you might check out Liron Yanconsky and Matthew White, 2 youtubers I've learned a lot from.
Thank you Deborah. That was very kind of you to take the trouble to comment. I am planning for more UA-cam videos this year, the first coming hopefully within the next couple of weeks.
Thank you, Donna, I do follow both Liron and Matthew and learn quite a bit. But there is no doubt in my mind that Grahame is the very best!
My pleasure Grahame, I can tell you that I have already found your newest postings and couldn't be happier that you are back!!! (PS: I always learn something more by watching your tutorials.....there are no shadows within shadows.... paint them in one wash.... lovely)
I agree, it's gorgeous. We are the same age Deborah - except that I only started a couple of years ago. I LOVE winter landscapes, probably because I grew up in Northern Ontario where snow arrived in October and left in May! I have the most luck with winter scenes - love the blues, greys, taupe, burnt sienna. Winter light is beautiful, too, especially late afternoon.
Without question, this is the most complete instruction I have seen on any video. The information that so many fail to include is all here, and the camera work is first rate.
Thank you Grahame for this.
That's very kind of you to comment Neil. It is much appreciated.
Neil T y
WOW! Graham, I love yourwatercolor instruction and painting style. The detail you provide about your color mixing, brush work, and capturing the feeling of the scene is the best I have seen after viewing many demonstrations! Thank you!
Thank you so much Nancy. Your kind comments are very much appreciated.
you need some snow? we are getting approx. 20 cm tomorrow into Saturday. LOL everytime I watch this I learn something more. thank you for this truly instructional video. love your technique you make the paint come alive.
Thank you for this demo and for showing so many techniques including mixing the paint, colors, brush sizes, strokes....all very helpful!
Grahame is a phenomenal artist! He inspires and educates with every video demonstration
I want to purchase his instructional materials, too. Keep up the good work, sir
Captivating Grahame, thank you so much. My husband and I watched in awe as this stunning watercolour came to life.
I love the colors you chose to do this.
Thank you Grahame. I so appreciate your taking the time to show us this demo. So many lessons in this one, so beautiful!
This is definitely my favorite demo you have done. I am looking forward to trying my spin on it. I probably will need to borrow that fancy brass box though haha!
Again I loved this detailed and informative video tutorial. I felt the showing of the mixing of the colours in the palette really gave a good insight into colour mixing, and it was interesting to see what I felt was a similar tonal range developing across the work as a whole, giving a lovely balance to the final work. it was also interesting to read another comment about painting snow in different colours and this gave a vibrancy to the piece. Thank you for sharing.
Kevin Barry Jan 19 2018
Excellent demonstration. Each step in the process clearly explained as it is done. Shows the beauty that can be achieved by a small number of colours and their variation by both hue and value throughout the painting. I found the creation of the small pond - laying down the reflections first and when they were dry, glazing over them to suggest the surface of the water. Thank you Grahame!
Thank you very much Kevin. Your insightful comments are much appreciated.
Love your work and watching you get the much needed effects to make it look more realistic. Thank you.
Super demonstration. Your accompanying commentary is first class. It's so helpful to hear you explain the how and why as you develop the painting. Many thanks. My usual medium is oil but you've given me the urge to get out my watercolours. Happy new year.
Love your work, Graham. Best wishes from Charlotte, NC, USA.
Thanks for posting these tutorials. They are very clear to understand and give great points for instruction. I enjoy the paintings you make.
love your paintings
Thank you, it’s amazing how it comes together. I’m gearing up to ty my own winter landscape and this tutorial was extremely helpful. Your explanation of the sun low in the sky for warmth and the way the shadow needs to be continuous are great tips!
You're welcome Terry. Glad to have been of help
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video and love the final painting. Thank you. Have just ordered your recent book (my first ever book on Watercolour).
Absolutely lovely! Excellent quality video and instruction. Thank you so much for sharing.
Your Snow Painting Book is Out Now and I can't wait to get it ! Love your take and Logic on it. Ty for showing how to do Snow without tons of Blue as to me it always looks like the Snow has Melted and now it's a Puddle! Ty
marvelous!......you paint with such confidence and spontaneity... lovely!...and the commentary helps so much...thank you..
As always, I enjoy your work and your clear instruction of what you are doing and why. I look forward to learning from you in your workshops this year.
Absolutely breathtaking. Love your instruction and the way you mix your colors. You are truly a master. Thank you for sharing your talents with us..
Thanks very much Grahame, I really enjoyed watching this demo 👍 and I wish you a happy new year .
thank you! the gentle landscape!
This is simple and beautiful. I am always struggling to paint snow. This has helped me a lot.
I am from India. Love water colours & you have done beautiful paint & nice demo. God bless you.
Very instructive Grahame,love your colours,will try something like this for my Christmas cards,first of all I thought the figure was to be a Robin!! Thank you for the tuition.
Love your music,Bach is one of my favorites. You are a very good teacher. I will try to paint with water color.
Many thanks for your very interesting demonstration .i appreciate a lot to be able to notice the colors ,you were using . Marvellous painting
Thank you so much for your videos. Wonderful way of teaching.
This video was so wonderful! Thank you for such a thorough explanation along with your beautiful visuals!
wow looks great love your colors
Fabulous video! Great teaching!❤
You are a great painter !!
We toured Ireland 6 years ago. Absolutely beautiful, friendly, charming place. (We are Canadian).
I love watching you paint this
Lovely wintry picture. And
Giving us your colours
to use.
Thank you.
I love your style and thank you for the demo. I look forward to more.
great information given while you painted! I loved seeing how you mix also! really helped me understand how you mix and how you reuse and add to your colors!
Thank you
Thanks so much for this lovely tutorial Grahame. I really got a lot of information from your commentary as you painted.
great and inspiring tutorial, very gladthat can see the color mixing and detailed explaination,thanks a lot
Super Grahame, as always. Thanks for detailing your 'colour mixes' to the tutorials, really helps. Happy and Prosperous 2015 to you and yours.
And to you Shaw, good luck for 2015.
Thank you for sharing your talents. I really love ❤️ your tutorial, it is helping me plenty.
So much good instruction. I believe I learned a great deal from this video. Best wishes.
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
I love how you lift colors from tree branches. Beautiful.
Thank you so much for this demonstration, I've never colored snow before. I knew that snow isn't just white but didn't quite know how to color it. This helped me a lot thanks.
Que precioso don que tienes de poder sacar esos colores de tu paleta. Te felicito.
great demonstration. So clear! Thanks a million
Enjoyed your take on a winter scene. Thank you for sharing.
Just beautiful...
I loved this one. Thank you so much, you are such a good teacher.
Very beautiful!!
Thank you so much for this generous video...such thorough instruction...thanks so much Grahame :)
Wonderful video!!!
Hi Grahame,
just came across your site today. Great tutorials thank you very much, look forward to more in the coming year. All the best to you for 2015.
Ian
Thanks, Graham. Saludos desde Argentina!
Wonderful, thank you.
Hermosa y muy completa demostración. Es muy valioso ver cómo mezclas los colores en la paleta.¡ Mis deseos de felicidad desde Buenos Aires ARGENTINA, para el 2015 que tenemos tan cerca.!
Thankyou for this beautiful video and instructive lesson.
Inspired me thank you !🇦🇷
great instruction, loved every second of it
excellent Graham.
thank you so much Grahame. This is brilliant teaching. I am off to use my sword brush now.
Que arte más grande . Gracias
That's so pretty 😍
Graheme, I am new to your chanel and am a very timid beginner with watercolour. Thank you for identifying the watercolours used and showing how much water is needed for mixing and laying the pigments. Would you mind letting me know the name of the beautiful background guitar music to this demonstration. Thankyou for a totaly stressfree, relaxing and encouraging experience. 😊
Thank you Irene. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the music actually is. I use what is known as licenced music in my videos to avoid copyright and these tend not to bcome with very much information. I think it is either Bach or based on Bach and I have found something similar on UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/C_GW8XnEyY0/v-deo.html
Thank you! This video is amazing!!
Great demo.
Thank you !
Happy New Year to you!
Beautiful!
Beautiful! Amazing depth achieved with only a few colors. Well done instructional video. More please! Subscribing.
Nice demo. Happy New Year to you, too.
I think I know what it is it's the angle of the paper. I rewatched the last three I had seen and I noticed that your paper is on your architect table at an angle. I can follow it knowing I have to put my paper at the same angle when I paint with you. it confused me because my brain was not registering the table as being tilted up. I enjoy watching you because your good at teaching watercolour paintings. thank you for having this program
Mary Roberson j
Thank you! This was lovely to watch and learn
Loved this thankyou
Beautiful ❤️
Gorgeous!
Lovely painting! May I also ask what is the name of the guitar piece? Also lovely!
Thank you Katharine but I'm afraid I don't know the name of the guitar piece - it's library music and doesn't have a title or composer listed
Beautiful .
Love this lesson. Very informative! Thank you!
very nice
What brand are your watercolour paints, i love the vibrant colours and your style of painting
Mostly Winsor and Newton Byron and all are artists quality but really the vibrancy of watercolour is more about putting the paint on simply and really wet. All of the major manufacturers make really good paint.
Thank you so much from Little Rock Arkansas USA.
Fantastic! thanks for sharing
I guess what I mean is from a front view that is capable of seeing the full canvas as if it were in front of the viewer. we see it from the top looking down on it and its hard to see what you are putting on the canvas and make sense of it. look at. Bob ross and Donna Dewberry. they go from an angle or straight up close view. I love what you are doing its really beautiful art work.
Very helpful, Graham! Thank you.
Good work,
Love your videos and your talent. Would love to see more:)
Karen
Ponder
Texas
Beautiful thank you very much
your camera was pointed to where you see the canvas like your looking down on it. it would help if I could see what you are doing straight on. loved the end result.
+Mary Roberson Hi Mary - glad you enjoyed the demo. I'm not too sure what you mean by straight on. The demo is filmed this way to avoid any distortion of the paper, so that the demo is as clear as possible. If you can maybe suggest a demo on youtube that is filmed straight on I'll certainly take a look as I am always trying to improve things.
Wonderful scene. Beautiful painting. Do you squeeze fresh paint onto your palette for each painting or just spray the dried paints already in the palette? Thank you.
Thank you Antonio. I use my palette so often that I do not usually need to spray them. I just keep squeezing fresh paint. Eventually some of each paint well does harden so every 18 months or so I scrape it out and start again with fresh paint.
i noticed that you cross contaminate colors on the palette. how do you keep your colors from getting muddy on your palette after you finish a painting?
I was soo pleased to see this painting
Come up again. I used to watch it lots.
Can you tell me what the first brush is called that you
Use please.
I will keep practising
Thank you
Hi Beryl. The first brush is a squirrel mop. Squirrel hair is very soft and holds a huge amount of paint.
Just found your site. Thank you for the tutorial.
J ai adoré merci
Hello Sir, that pallet is Craig young?
Thx for doing all of your videos. I appreciate the hard work and free sharing of tips and info! Can you give the name/brand of the palette? Very cool model! Thx.
Thanks Chris. Glad you enjoyed it. My palette is made by Craig Young but other
people make similar palettes. a very good round up of what is available can be
found here channeling-winslow-homer.com/2013/05/02/brass-watercolor-palettes-3-craftsmen-now-making-them/
Where can I get that palette, case and paint, that you are using in this video? Also, does it make a difference that your painting at an angle? Thank you for the demonstration on the snow. That helps me to figure out how to make it look like snow in water color. Easy to do in Acrylics, not so easy in water color.
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Hi. The palette is a Craig Young palette. A good round up of similar palettes can be found at channeling-winslow-homer.com/2013/05/02/brass-watercolor-palettes-3-craftsmen-now-making-them/ . Paint is mostly Winsor and Newton and finally I do believe that it is necessary to paint at an angle. Watercolour will always flow and at least at an angle it flows down!