I'm already subscribing to Skillshare and proudly support you on Patreon as well. For those on here who haven't realized what a wonderful resource and instructor you are, I urge them to follow.... and ENJOY Louse's wonderful teaching techniques! SO blessed to have found you!
It's a huge relief to me to know that I'm not the only one who stresses about starting a watercolour painting! I really appreciate the helpful tips you've given. ,❤
Louise, the study that you did of the little bird was very helpful and so interesting. You also showed the study and the painting of the cutest little koala, how sweet is this! I understand how a study would prevent much anxiety and stress prior to the final painting. Your drawings are always so perfect! Thank you again for sharing this important information. Helene❤😊
Hi loviza. It's a pleasure to watch your videos. I love love all your painting. My watercolour painting has improved so much by watching your videos. I definitely won't go anywhere to look for a professor. You the best .always will be. Those lovely birds..the roses 🌹 are my favourite. Thanks again an happy artist 🎨. Cheers.
I love your videos! You are one of my fav WC youtubers because your videos are so informative. I saw a commenter mention your bloopers and I never stayed long enough to watch them. I usually move on when the main part of the video ends. Maybe it would be great to add.. stay until the end for bloopers! I think they are unique and funny. The only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the length of the skillshare plug was too long.. 2 min out of 13 (15% of the video) felt a little frustrating but there is always fast forward. Also I love the way that you say “didn’t”! Thanks for all that you do
Thank you for this wonderful video. I thought my anxiety was just about me being unskilled. I never imagined that someone as skilled as you could also get anxious before a painting. Doing a study is a brilliant way of dealing with it. This is the second video I've watched of yours about painting studies and I plan to make this part of my process from hereon in. Thank you.
Just came across your videos on Facebook and love the way you paint, share your knowledge and your paintings are amazing. Thank you for sharing your special talent!!!
Hi Louise big thanks for the 2 free months of Skillshare Premium, I am finding it really lovely to have the full class and not just the 'intro' video as other artists have done, so many thanks for that and hopefully will paint along with you within these 2 months the Fox one looks like it will be my first try :) Please don't get too good at doing videos though as would really miss your 'bloopers' they make me smile in a nice way .. your a gem!
As always very inspirering video! I really liked your Watercolour Journal. A very good way to test out a lot of details, before you start the real painting. 🙂
You are SOOOO inspiring. I love your technique and the watercolour journal idea is genius. Thank you so much for the SkillShare opportunity, what a lovely surprise on a chilly and damp February Friday.
Your drawings are always so elegant! I'd love to see a tutorial on how you transform your reference photo into the subject of a painting -- how and why you choose a particular photo, determine proportions and level of detail, and how you come up with a background that makes your subject stand out. The result is quite exquisite and is more than controlling the paint.
Louise has covered this topic’s in previous videos and in her Patreon videos. She talks in depth about selecting reference photos and about how she works her way through a drawing to capture the right amount of detail.
Love your work..Thank you for your skillshare classes and your videos on UA-cam...your classes have helped me develop my skills and have also inspired me to paint more often...💕
Your attention to detail is amazing! This was very helpful. I've been doing some watercolor lately. Still a long way to go. But I'll get there. Thanks for sharing your talent ❤️☺️
Thanks Cori. Yes exactly. I'm always in a hurry to start the main painting even though I'm anxious about it. I plan on taking it a lot slower from now on.
Thank you for this video. I can see where a journal would help with all of that and I might have to do that once I get to the point of doing my own work and such. Right now I'm learning from UA-camrs like yourself.
Yay! Have literally spent the last half an hour searching for watercolour journals (I'm just down the road from you in Newcastle) and had settled on the W&N Watercolour Journal!!! Freaked out a little by that coincidence. Anyhoo, thanks for being so honest. Oh yes, also, YAY for Skillshare (had subscription for over two years now and use it for 3 different areas I want to improve on, watercolour being just one). Hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks Beverley. You're practically a neighbour. 😘 Tape the pages together with wide Washi tape from Bunnings to stop it from buckling so much when you paint on it.
Hi, your tutorial videos are amazing and very very useful for even the beginners like me. I must say, even your practice paintings are so good. you are an amazing artist. thank you for sharing your videos on youtube. thank you
It’s such a clever idea to paint a subject first without the fear of ruining an expensive sheet of Arches watercolor paper! I find it funny to hear that watercolor is an inexpensive medium to paint with, do they exclude the cost of the paper when they say that? I have a question concerning the journal you use though, since the paper is not the same as Arches, does it make it difficult to paint on? I’m a beginner and part of the success when I paint a bird has to do with the paper I use, I fiddle a lot, you see, it’s a conundrum. Thank you
What is the name of the journal you are using? Is it cotton paper? i bought some journals and have been very disappointed due to a pulp paper vs. cotton paper. I love the idea of testing a subject matter before actually painting the ending painting on good Arches paper.
Louise "mind of watercolor" just posted a spot about aquaboard and a demo on using it, that you might find helpful. Hope this is the information you need.
I'm thinking that for a total beginner like myself, perhaps working only in a journal for a while, to develop techniques, etc., would be the best way to go - so as not to waste the more expensive paper right off the bat
I've been thinking about doing this as well, but so far I have not found the paper that is good enough for the practice paper, yet that is similar enough to the expensive paper that it gives me an actual idea of how the final painting will work out. I will see if the Winsor and newton journal you use is affordable.
I too struggle with that fear when I start a painting, and this is an excellent idea to go into a large piece more relaxed. At the very least I usually do a thumbnail sketch to help me iron out some decisions and find out if a color mixture won't be quite like I wanted. It's nice seeing your process. That journal will be so amazing to look through once it's full! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi Louise loving your videos, just wondering what brand of journal you use? I need a new one and thought I would ask the expert😊 stay safe and take care Melita xx
So beautiful. I love your style. The journal you're using for the study - is the paper thinner than the ones you use for the finished painting? I find the journals really expensive too, especially if they need to be proper watercolour and especially the 100% cotton ones.
Great info. I love your work. I've been "playing " with watercolor for a while now but recently have become more serious about it. I focus on florals but would like to branch out to birds and woodland animals. What type of watercolor journal do you recommend? I've used Stillman and Birn, Jane Davenport, Aquabee (which I can't find anymore.) Thank you!
When you want to put a darker color on a lighter one you wait the light one to dry and then add the other or you put the dark one when the lighter color is still wet?
This is a great idea. If you sell or give away the final painting, this way you'll still have a (not necessarily identical) copy of it to keep. Not only that, but if you happened to learn something while painting the first one (it could be anything at all and not necessarily something related to the painting), the second painting will serve as a reminder, reinforcing what you learned. I'm curious, though. Do you sit in the same spot to do the studies so that you can emulate the experience of the final painting or do you curl up on the porch or in the living room on the couch for that part so you can be more comfortable and relaxed?
Not often in the past Sara but I do sometimes now. I find I'm doing it more often lately because I've got different projects on the go for different platforms (Skillshare, Patreon, UA-cam etc).
Hi Thank you for this video Louise, such wonderful advice as always. I’m wondering, do you stretch your journal paper? If so how? If not, how do you stop it warping? I have a small journal just A5 and even if I tape down the edges, I get puddle and hills in a waves painting. Thanks, Jade
Hi Jade, thank you! No I don't stretch journal paper. You'd have to remove it from the journal in order to stretch it. Mine warps and buckles too. I tape the edges together with all of the other pages and that helps. Some artists use bull dog clips while they are painting to hold all the pages together.
@@LouiseDeMasi Well, it had hints of Spring, however, winter said watch this, two feet of snow over two days. Still under a snow squall watch. It's Canada, what can you do? (Shovel of course.)
The first 500 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: skl.sh/louisedemasi
I'm already subscribing to Skillshare and proudly support you on Patreon as well. For those on here who haven't realized what a wonderful resource and instructor you are, I urge them to follow.... and ENJOY Louse's wonderful teaching techniques! SO blessed to have found you!
@@VanmeterFL Thank you so much Becky! This is a lovely message- made my day. I feel blessed to have found all of you. 😘
It’s February 29. One more day and I am signing up for Patreon subscription and start learning more in your class.
It's a huge relief to me to know that I'm not the only one who stresses about starting a watercolour painting! I really appreciate the helpful tips you've given. ,❤
Louise, the study that you did of the little bird was very helpful and so interesting. You also showed the study and the painting of the cutest little koala, how sweet is this! I understand how a study would prevent much anxiety and stress prior to the final painting. Your drawings are always so perfect! Thank you again for sharing this important information. Helene❤😊
Hi loviza. It's a pleasure to watch your videos. I love love all your painting. My watercolour painting has improved so much by watching your videos. I definitely won't go anywhere to look for a professor. You the best .always will be. Those lovely birds..the roses 🌹 are my favourite. Thanks again an happy artist 🎨. Cheers.
I love your videos! You are one of my fav WC youtubers because your videos are so informative. I saw a commenter mention your bloopers and I never stayed long enough to watch them. I usually move on when the main part of the video ends. Maybe it would be great to add.. stay until the end for bloopers! I think they are unique and funny. The only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the length of the skillshare plug was too long.. 2 min out of 13 (15% of the video) felt a little frustrating but there is always fast forward. Also I love the way that you say “didn’t”! Thanks for all that you do
Thank you for this wonderful video. I thought my anxiety was just about me being unskilled. I never imagined that someone as skilled as you could also get anxious before a painting. Doing a study is a brilliant way of dealing with it. This is the second video I've watched of yours about painting studies and I plan to make this part of my process from hereon in. Thank you.
Just came across your videos on Facebook and love the way you paint, share your knowledge and your paintings are amazing. Thank you for sharing your special talent!!!
I've unfortunately not painted for quite some time, I hope I find my mojo and get back into it. Love your channel many thanks
PS: also love your bloopers at the end of your vids!
Thoroughly love your work.
I have not felt so motivated to do watercolour for years! You are doing a great job.
Hi Louise big thanks for the 2 free months of Skillshare Premium, I am finding it really lovely to have the full class and not just the 'intro' video as other artists have done, so many thanks for that and hopefully will paint along with you within these 2 months the Fox one looks like it will be my first try :) Please don't get too good at doing videos though as would really miss your 'bloopers' they make me smile in a nice way .. your a gem!
Lol....thanks Sharon. I'll be stumbling over my works for a while yet I'm sure. 🥴
Fantastic idea to create a water color journal. Thank you so much
As always very inspirering video! I really liked your Watercolour Journal. A very good way to test out a lot of details, before you start the real painting. 🙂
Lol the bloopers are cute. I love your work
You are SOOOO inspiring. I love your technique and the watercolour journal idea is genius. Thank you so much for the SkillShare opportunity, what a lovely surprise on a chilly and damp February Friday.
Thank you very much! It has been very helpful to me. I'm usually too eager to start the proper painting. 💕
This simple tip will help me enormously! I am enjoying your Robax palette...I just got it set up and filled yesterday!
Doing a study makes perfect sense, realizing, I would certainly be more relaxed with both the initial and finished pieces. Thanks,Louise.
Your drawings are always so elegant! I'd love to see a tutorial on how you transform your reference photo into the subject of a painting -- how and why you choose a particular photo, determine proportions and level of detail, and how you come up with a background that makes your subject stand out. The result is quite exquisite and is more than controlling the paint.
Louise has covered this topic’s in previous videos and in her Patreon videos. She talks in depth
about selecting reference photos and about how she works her way through a drawing to capture the right amount of detail.
Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction!
You are wonderful! Your channel just gets better and better. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your art and yourself.
Love your work..Thank you for your skillshare classes and your videos on UA-cam...your classes have helped me develop my skills and have also inspired me to paint more often...💕
Your attention to detail is amazing! This was very helpful. I've been doing some watercolor lately. Still a long way to go. But I'll get there. Thanks for sharing your talent ❤️☺️
Beautiful little bird and great advice! Sometimes you just want to get to the large painting but practicing does pay off 💛💛
Thanks Cori. Yes exactly. I'm always in a hurry to start the main painting even though I'm anxious about it. I plan on taking it a lot slower from now on.
Appreciate your honesty Louise. Anxiety can be so stifling to the creative process (-: Marion
Beautiful as always, I enjoy your filming process a lot too
Thank you so much for your videos. You’re a true rarity: a wonderful painter who is also a wonderful teacher.
Thank you for this video. I can see where a journal would help with all of that and I might have to do that once I get to the point of doing my own work and such. Right now I'm learning from UA-camrs like yourself.
Ur videos r superb .can u show some easy canvas painting .which can be finished in two days
Great advice,thanks
Beautiful done! I am happy to learn from you.Beautiful job
Yay! Have literally spent the last half an hour searching for watercolour journals (I'm just down the road from you in Newcastle) and had settled on the W&N Watercolour Journal!!! Freaked out a little by that coincidence. Anyhoo, thanks for being so honest. Oh yes, also, YAY for Skillshare (had subscription for over two years now and use it for 3 different areas I want to improve on, watercolour being just one). Hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks Beverley. You're practically a neighbour. 😘 Tape the pages together with wide Washi tape from Bunnings to stop it from buckling so much when you paint on it.
Hi, your tutorial videos are amazing and very very useful for even the beginners like me. I must say, even your practice paintings are so good. you are an amazing artist. thank you for sharing your videos on youtube. thank you
Beautiful paintings. 🌿🌿🌿
It’s such a clever idea to paint a subject first without the fear of ruining an expensive sheet of Arches watercolor paper! I find it funny to hear that watercolor is an inexpensive medium to paint with, do they exclude the cost of the paper when they say that? I have a question concerning the journal you use though, since the paper is not the same as Arches, does it make it difficult to paint on? I’m a beginner and part of the success when I paint a bird has to do with the paper I use, I fiddle a lot, you see, it’s a conundrum. Thank you
I totally relate to your bloopers! My mouth tends to lose the ability to form words as soon as I hit the record button. 🙃
Lol.....I'm glad it's not just me. I think I try to enunciate better when the camera is on and then I end up stumbling over them. 🥴
Well, you always sound very eloquent to me. :)
Thank you for your efforts...u are so kind.
Thank you!
Very beautiful, i like your style very much! I say thank you for uploading and sharing your knowledge and own art!
Amazing, your drawings are phenominal!!
Thank you Linda. 💕
What is the name of the journal you are using? Is it cotton paper? i bought some journals and have been very disappointed due to a pulp paper vs. cotton paper. I love the idea of testing a subject matter before actually painting the ending painting on good Arches paper.
Thank you for the SkillShare freebie. I went ahead and purchased a year-I had never explored it before-so I’ll have 14 months for the price of 12!
Pleasure. That's great Nancy. Have fun with it! I hope to see you on there. 💕
You will be thrilled! She's a fabulous instructor!
Thanks for the video and tips
Louise
My pleasure Silvia. Thank you for watching and also for your message.
Thank you Louise! Great advice.
My pleasure Cindy. Thank you!
🤗🙏🏻😁I love your bloopers too 😂👌😉💐💝
Beautiful painting. Thank you for sharing. Do you draw the birds and animals free hand?
Great topic Louise. Thanks.
Thanks Bruce and thank you for always taking the time to comment....appreciate it.
I have been waiting for your next upload, and here it is. 💖 Thank you so much
Pleasure! Thank you.
THanks for all the advices...I love the bloopers !!!
Pleasure. Thank you!
Thank you very much Louise for these instructions, I am looking forward for the Koala and the Robin on Skillshare 🕊 😇 💕 💕 💕
Thank you Celeste. 💕
Must be something in the air. I made that decision to work this way all this year so bought 3 different journals. Good decision.
MisTikkal Rosy same here. Now I can relax a bit more when starting a new painting. 😁
Louise "mind of watercolor" just posted a spot about aquaboard and a demo on using it, that you might find helpful. Hope this is the information you need.
I'm thinking that for a total beginner like myself, perhaps working only in a journal for a while, to develop techniques, etc., would be the best way to go - so as not to waste the more expensive paper right off the bat
I've been thinking about doing this as well, but so far I have not found the paper that is good enough for the practice paper, yet that is similar enough to the expensive paper that it gives me an actual idea of how the final painting will work out. I will see if the Winsor and newton journal you use is affordable.
I find taping all the pages together like a watercolour block is helpful when I paint in them. I buy wide Washi tape from the hardware store for this.
I too struggle with that fear when I start a painting, and this is an excellent idea to go into a large piece more relaxed. At the very least I usually do a thumbnail sketch to help me iron out some decisions and find out if a color mixture won't be quite like I wanted. It's nice seeing your process. That journal will be so amazing to look through once it's full! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you Kimberly. I've always been in too much of a hurry to start the main painting. I'm going to keep taking it slower from now on.
Another great video Louise, thank you! I love painting in a sketchbook as it takes the pressure off ! Have a great weekend 😊💜
Thank you Sarah. I will keep doing it because it's making a difference. You have a fabulous weekend too. 💕
Hi Louise loving your videos, just wondering what brand of journal you use? I need a new one and thought I would ask the expert😊 stay safe and take care Melita xx
So beautiful. I love your style. The journal you're using for the study - is the paper thinner than the ones you use for the finished painting? I find the journals really expensive too, especially if they need to be proper watercolour and especially the 100% cotton ones.
Great info. I love your work. I've been "playing " with watercolor for a while now but recently have become more serious about it. I focus on florals but would like to branch out to birds and woodland animals. What type of watercolor journal do you recommend? I've used Stillman and Birn, Jane Davenport, Aquabee (which I can't find anymore.) Thank you!
I love your outtakes 😂
The camera makes me tongue tied. Thank you 🥴.
Love the bloopers at the end!
Love your bloopers lol... And offcourse your painting arw amazing ❤️
Thank you Chantelle. 😘
muy hermoso quedo, mil gracias 🙅
Muchas gracias.
What brand journal do you use, please?
When you want to put a darker color on a lighter one you wait the light one to dry and then add the other or you put the dark one when the lighter color is still wet?
This is a great idea. If you sell or give away the final painting, this way you'll still have a (not necessarily identical) copy of it to keep. Not only that, but if you happened to learn something while painting the first one (it could be anything at all and not necessarily something related to the painting), the second painting will serve as a reminder, reinforcing what you learned. I'm curious, though. Do you sit in the same spot to do the studies so that you can emulate the experience of the final painting or do you curl up on the porch or in the living room on the couch for that part so you can be more comfortable and relaxed?
What size is the journal use normally work with for your watercolor studies?
Do this journal’s pages not warp ? It’s impressive !
Thank you for giving this tip. May I know if your journal (I assume smaller) specifications e.g., 100% cotton, 185gsm?
Thanks Willie. I think it's 300gsm cotton paper. I'll let you know if it's not.
Louise De Masi Thank you, you have a lot of fans in IWS Philippines
Do you ever work on more than one painting at the same time? I tend to do that sometimes so I can keep painting while waiting for one to dry.
Not often in the past Sara but I do sometimes now. I find I'm doing it more often lately because I've got different projects on the go for different platforms (Skillshare, Patreon, UA-cam etc).
Look very pretty today
Blushing....thank you Christina.
Hi Thank you for this video Louise, such wonderful advice as always. I’m wondering, do you stretch your journal paper? If so how? If not, how do you stop it warping? I have a small journal just A5 and even if I tape down the edges, I get puddle and hills in a waves painting. Thanks, Jade
Hi Jade, thank you! No I don't stretch journal paper. You'd have to remove it from the journal in order to stretch it. Mine warps and buckles too. I tape the edges together with all of the other pages and that helps. Some artists use bull dog clips while they are painting to hold all the pages together.
Can't find the wn watercolor journals on Amazon or Jerrys.
Pl show the reference photo so we know
:-) So good.
Thanks Don! I hope you're staying warm up there. I'm looking forward to Autumn beginning tomorrow.
@@LouiseDeMasi Well, it had hints of Spring, however, winter said watch this, two feet of snow over two days. Still under a snow squall watch. It's Canada, what can you do? (Shovel of course.)
@@don9133 Lol....shovelling should keep you fit. Sending you warm thoughts.
@@LouiseDeMasi Thank you! :-)
where do you live . are you aussie or english
What Brand Journal are you using?
This is Winsor and Newton.
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