I once had an art instructor yell at me for mixing the paint on the paper, and told me that's not how it's done. Very encouraging to hear from you that you do mix on the paper
I have heard about two art teachers so far who have yelled at their students for their methods... I feel like they miss the WHOLE fucking point of art and it pisses me off. There is no right way or method to express something in artwork, and not everybody has, wants to have, or even SHOULD have the same style of art. Individuality and uniqueness is what DEFINES art, what makes art... well, ART. I applaud you for tolerating that dude jesus christ, if you're still receiving lessons from them please slap them (don't but that's absolutely something I'd do)
They sound like a very uncreative soul, for someone that decided to teach art. That's one of the reasons I'm scared to go to an actual art school. I don't want to get stuck with crazy teachers where I don't actually learn much because I'm just trying to apease them
I never got yelled at for not mixing only on the palette, but I was always told to only mix on the palette. I did that for a while, but then I started messing around with mixing directly on the paper or canvas and found that to be much more fun and worked better with how I think
never really got into how certain art mediums work until i saw someone play the multi-medium. great game, the watercolor section has some of the best music too.
Picking up the colors together for sure has the nicest result. The adding of color looked like you lost control and more blue took over. Thanks for this tutorial 😊
See how tastes are different.. I, personally, liked the dripping in of the blue colour best ☺ 👏 👍 so for me and all like me, that's OK and your opinion would be your own to use or propagated further... Some people think they paint better than Leonardo da Vinci... All in the eye of the comparison beholder. 🎉
1st could be used for billing in blank space or flat bgs, 2nd for the focus of the piece snd adding depth and 3rd i think would look cool to creature a flowy texture like silk
Painting feathers with that last technique is my favorite- the strong contrast when it dries, and the pattern it makes from the pigments spreading when it was wet, makes the PERFECT tecture.
All techniques have different looks but are really interesting ! In my opinion 1 would be good for a kind of cartoony art style, with cel shading and blocks of colors with a bold lineart The second one would be best for a more realistic style and i love to use it in landscapes and this kind of stuff And the last one is so good for something a bit more "abstract" with brighter colors and interesting mix !
The THIRD colouring is absolutely and brilliantly exciting! To see colours moving blending and changing, & waiting for the final effect 👏 🎉wonderful! Thank you!
Giving up a bit of control... Hmmm...a life lesson as well as in watercolor, I guess... Probably why I do the first method, but my favorite effect is the second method. I will give the second and third a try in my sketchbook!
Tysm! I always get so anxious when using watercolors and get confused on how people are getting certain results… I’ll definitely be trying these in the future :D
I like the mix first method. I usually paint with acrylics but I'm becoming very interested in watercolor. I really like the soft effect of a watercolor painting.
I love the second method, but my favorite that wasn't mentioned is wet on dry. It's like the stepping stone between a flat wash and pitting down many colors at once. All the experimentation happens on the paper, but you still control where the colors go. The results are surprisingly different from a flat wash.
Wet on wet has always terrified me because it’s very uncontrollable and I am scared it will ruin the artwork underneath, but I have been giving it a shot recently. Hope I finally get something worth writing home about!
i typically work with acrylics, but i love mixing the colors on the canvas. it creates such a fun effect and gives me a nice amount of “risk” to make my brain happy
I feel like it happens mostly for people who are used to acrylic/oil paint. Its always discouraged to mix paint on the canvas. While for watercolor or digital art, its sometimes better to not use a pre-made color
I love watercolor because you can use so many different techniques with it and get super creative even if you dont have much drawing skill. You can also easily add other mediums, like acrilic, pencil or ink/fineliners to add different elements to it
I like the second one most. But I haven’t ever tried it. Tbh I haven’t tried water colors a lot. Still managed to make two portraits with water colors. The videos are present on my youtube.
to me it's about what I needed for the work, they are all good techniques to consider. But personally I love the second one, where you let it mix a little by picking up 2 colors at the same time.
I love this. Any chance you could give me advice on a watercolor paper/brushes/paints that aren't super expensive? I just want to play around and see if it's a medium I like before putting a lot of money into it.
ALWAYS use 100% cotton paper, that's the most important thing. Bockingford, Baohong are more affordable than most other brands. You can use any synthetic round brush, even the cheap ones will do. Jackson's in the UK, Amazon or Blick in the US have lots of choice. Paint: I'd recommend artist quality and start with fewer colours. Most brands have a starter kit (Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, etc.). The little palette boxes are ok, but it's hard to get enough paint out. Jenna Rainey has great starter videos. I suggest you do some more research before buying anything
Not the blue on the pear but getting the green plus yellow by itself looks great mixing on the pear. Red & yellow would be beautiful too to get it mixing into an orange color on it.
1st one can only be used to fill in blank backgrounds or you know, flat textures... 2nd one's pretty interesting, and the 3rd one.. uhm I'd use it only on abstract art 😅
My favorite is when you take the two colors and the brush at the same time because it blends together better. In my opinion. The second one does not blend as well and I like the look of the first one better.
Bro what… you sound so similar to my Oma (my grandma who passed in august) that i had to do an entire double take because WOA. (Also i like the art :3)
I personally hate working with water colors, as I work better with acrylics and I think this has helped me see why I dislike working with them. I think it's the lack of control over specifics.
That’s definitely not the exact way I’d use wet on wet if I was going to for this purpose; it obviously doesn’t look nearly as coherent as the other examples here, but if you were a bit more gradual & intentional about it you could definitely achieve some really nice partial blending of the colors through that kind of technique instead of basically just dropping the second one on in a concentration & starkness of color contrast that makes it end up looking completely separate from the other color (you could even add several gradations gradually into the wet wash in order to get a much smoother transition even if you did leave the colors very broken & unblended). But I know you were just trying to give the general idea of the technique (I just wouldn’t want this example to make someone think it objectively isn’t as suitable of a technique for a purpose like this- it would just have to be applied a bit differently). This was a good showcase of these techniques otherwise though; I like your brushwork on the other two techniques quite a bit for such a simple example! I actually haven’t tried picking up two colors in the brush at once without blending them in watercolor (though it’s something I do often with acrylics or oils), because I just kind of assumed with the paint so fluid that it would mostly mix together by the time I got it on the paper in watercolor, unless it was really a cream/butter sort of consistency- but it definitely looks worth trying. Another of my favorite options is optical blending. For anyone who isn’t aware of it: if you paint one of the colors (I generally recommend starting with yellow, or whatever the lightest color will be, & then not overdoing it with how darkly you apply the next color over it), let the first color fully dry, & then apply the next color wet onto dry, like a glaze, assuming it’s transparent enough to see the underlying color through, it creates a really beautiful effect, which almost reminds me of stained glass or something like that. For example, if you paint a blue over a yellow, you end up being able to see it as green, but depending on how you look at it, it’s like it also still retains its “blueness” & it’s “yellowness,” because they aren’t actually blended together. You’re just seeing light of both colors that has been reflected from both layers. It gives a kind of dimensionality to a color that you don’t get by fully blending them, but it’s also different from having broken colors side by side, or partially blended. They can all be beautiful in the right context. If you start experimenting with this kind of wet on dry technique you can also achieve a lot of different possible combinations depending on the staining/granulating properties of the two or more pigments you use. You can use a granulating pigment to create texture & then once it’s 100% dry, do a thin glaze of a staining pigment on top, or vice versa (putting something very granulated, like lunar black, on top of a flat, smooth, luminous background of a staining color like pthalo blue can create an amazing, unique effect). Or you can overlay multiple transparent, glaze-like even layers of staining colors in different areas to get all kinds of optical mixing going on. Or you can overlay different granulating colors to get more complex textures & blending going on (just be mindful that granulating colors tend to reactivate when wet very easily [opposite side of the spectrum from staining pigments], so any time you’re painting wet on dry on top of them, you really have to be extra gentle & make sure you just go over them in one pass, because as soon as they’re wet & you paint over an already-wetted area again you’ll start displacing pigment very easily (& any significant amount of water, anything that will make any amount of puddle, will definitely give them the opportunity to lift & start moving around again). Whereas, with the staining layers, once they’re down & have dried they’re pretty locked in, & you can play around a bit more on top of them with future layers before you create a problem for yourself. Still, always advisable to avoid overworking, & once a layer reaches the damp/drying stage you should leave it alone.
I once had an art instructor yell at me for mixing the paint on the paper, and told me that's not how it's done. Very encouraging to hear from you that you do mix on the paper
There are no rules in my opinion. And who yells at their students? 😀
I have heard about two art teachers so far who have yelled at their students for their methods... I feel like they miss the WHOLE fucking point of art and it pisses me off. There is no right way or method to express something in artwork, and not everybody has, wants to have, or even SHOULD have the same style of art. Individuality and uniqueness is what DEFINES art, what makes art... well, ART. I applaud you for tolerating that dude jesus christ, if you're still receiving lessons from them please slap them (don't but that's absolutely something I'd do)
@@ciderofthearctic392 I agree with you.
They sound like a very uncreative soul, for someone that decided to teach art. That's one of the reasons I'm scared to go to an actual art school. I don't want to get stuck with crazy teachers where I don't actually learn much because I'm just trying to apease them
I never got yelled at for not mixing only on the palette, but I was always told to only mix on the palette. I did that for a while, but then I started messing around with mixing directly on the paper or canvas and found that to be much more fun and worked better with how I think
never really got into how certain art mediums work until i saw someone play the multi-medium. great game, the watercolor section has some of the best music too.
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THE MULTI-MEDIUM MENTIONED??? TWEAKING OUT OH MY GOODNESS
Picking up the colors together for sure has the nicest result. The adding of color looked like you lost control and more blue took over. Thanks for this tutorial 😊
See how tastes are different.. I, personally, liked the dripping in of the blue colour best ☺ 👏 👍 so for me and all like me, that's OK and your opinion would be your own to use or propagated further... Some people think they paint better than Leonardo da Vinci... All in the eye of the comparison beholder. 🎉
1st could be used for billing in blank space or flat bgs, 2nd for the focus of the piece snd adding depth and 3rd i think would look cool to creature a flowy texture like silk
agree, each has its use
Painting feathers with that last technique is my favorite- the strong contrast when it dries, and the pattern it makes from the pigments spreading when it was wet, makes the PERFECT tecture.
2nd for sure. Thanks for this demonstration 😊
You’re welcome 😊
I like the second one you did.
I personally prefer to do glazing layers, wet on wet blending, and even some subtraction scrubbing to create soft highlights.
All techniques have different looks but are really interesting ! In my opinion 1 would be good for a kind of cartoony art style, with cel shading and blocks of colors with a bold lineart
The second one would be best for a more realistic style and i love to use it in landscapes and this kind of stuff
And the last one is so good for something a bit more "abstract" with brighter colors and interesting mix !
There's something magical about watercolour illustrations
I do that with acrylic paint when I make backgrounds, they blend a lot better when you mix them on the canvas for a sunset, for example
Aha. Good to know
As a beginner this was so helpful thanks
You're so welcome!
I would have to go the second one when you picked up 2-3 colours at a time
Same
My most favorite is the spay water first then put colours later. It makes interesting water or flame pattern when it's dried.
Yes! Indeed! Very instruction with close- up to see! Love this!🥰
The ombré effect by picking up multiple colors at once is gorgeous
The THIRD colouring is absolutely and brilliantly exciting! To see colours moving blending and changing, & waiting for the final effect 👏 🎉wonderful! Thank you!
Giving up a bit of control... Hmmm...a life lesson as well as in watercolor, I guess... Probably why I do the first method, but my favorite effect is the second method. I will give the second and third a try in my sketchbook!
art is definitely a mirror of life for me
The pear on the right.
Nice job.
I like to layer my colors then when I'm done add some pencils on top which made it look even better
They all are very nice 😊😊
Oooooh they're pears. I thought it was the Grinch.
hahaha, didn't think of painting the grinch!
2nd!
I love how the double loading came out.. I'm going to try this more! Ty 💛💚💙
I liked the 3rd pear
Tysm! I always get so anxious when using watercolors and get confused on how people are getting certain results… I’ll definitely be trying these in the future :D
I've never done much with watercolors but the second effect is my favorite when using oil paints.
Your art is beautiful 😊
Thank you so much 😀
Love it👏
The second one is clearly the best, but the third one you made is perfect for clothing !
Love the outcome of the 2. technique
It gives the painting more dimension and depth as well in my opinion
Nature is uncontrollable !!!
May Yah be with you and your loved ones!! Toda Yah Thank you for the tip! This is really good!! Keep it up!!💗🌷🌸💗
Loved the second technique
3rd definitely. This helped improve everything!! Now my parents will be happy. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
I very much like the second one, if only I could do that digitally, I’m a bit of an amateur at water color so this is nice and helpful
Thanks so much 😊
I like the mix first method. I usually paint with acrylics but I'm becoming very interested in watercolor. I really like the soft effect of a watercolor painting.
you may never look back once you start with watercolours 😄
I love the second method, but my favorite that wasn't mentioned is wet on dry. It's like the stepping stone between a flat wash and pitting down many colors at once. All the experimentation happens on the paper, but you still control where the colors go. The results are surprisingly different from a flat wash.
Thanks for sharing
Wet on wet has always terrified me because it’s very uncontrollable and I am scared it will ruin the artwork underneath, but I have been giving it a shot recently. Hope I finally get something worth writing home about!
Love it!
I like picking colors together because it blended better and picking one color first and then picking the other color the blue literally took over 😅🎉❤
my fav is the 2nd love❤ it
I think the second version is the best.
i typically work with acrylics, but i love mixing the colors on the canvas. it creates such a fun effect and gives me a nice amount of “risk” to make my brain happy
I will try this when I get my water color!
I feel like it happens mostly for people who are used to acrylic/oil paint. Its always discouraged to mix paint on the canvas. While for watercolor or digital art, its sometimes better to not use a pre-made color
I like ,icing colours and picking up colours both at the same time interchangeably
I love watercolor because you can use so many different techniques with it and get super creative even if you dont have much drawing skill. You can also easily add other mediums, like acrilic, pencil or ink/fineliners to add different elements to it
Absolutely!!
Cool
I like the second one the best, but all three have their uses!
I like the second one most. But I haven’t ever tried it. Tbh I haven’t tried water colors a lot. Still managed to make two portraits with water colors. The videos are present on my youtube.
Thanks for the tutelage!!!
I love the wet-on-wet!
Cool huh, like rough gradient vs mask blend
Wow
It actually a great some time i confused how do i mixed them that's really great
It’s all so unique but since I’m learning how to water color I’ll probably let the water color have control and let it do its thing ❤
this is the way
I like the second one best
The where you pick multiple colors at the same time looks more realistic
to me it's about what I needed for the work, they are all good techniques to consider. But personally I love the second one, where you let it mix a little by picking up 2 colors at the same time.
I agree, they all have their purpose
i love the left
2 colors at the same time is my favorite
I like the one on the far right
I use mostly acrylic, but I do a majority of my mixing on the canvas.
I do both it really just depends on how I’m feeling that day.😊
Last one is the best
I love this. Any chance you could give me advice on a watercolor paper/brushes/paints that aren't super expensive? I just want to play around and see if it's a medium I like before putting a lot of money into it.
ALWAYS use 100% cotton paper, that's the most important thing. Bockingford, Baohong are more affordable than most other brands. You can use any synthetic round brush, even the cheap ones will do. Jackson's in the UK, Amazon or Blick in the US have lots of choice. Paint: I'd recommend artist quality and start with fewer colours. Most brands have a starter kit (Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, etc.). The little palette boxes are ok, but it's hard to get enough paint out. Jenna Rainey has great starter videos. I suggest you do some more research before buying anything
Second one is my favorite
I like the pear on the right best
Not the blue on the pear but getting the green plus yellow by itself looks great mixing on the pear. Red & yellow would be beautiful too to get it mixing into an orange color on it.
1st one can only be used to fill in blank backgrounds or you know, flat textures... 2nd one's pretty interesting, and the 3rd one.. uhm I'd use it only on abstract art 😅
Middle is coolest
My favorite is the second method
The third one is my favorite
My favorite is when you take the two colors and the brush at the same time because it blends together better. In my opinion. The second one does not blend as well and I like the look of the first one better.
thanks
Oil is my fav 😊
Second method is my favorite
The exact advice i needed thank you
that's great to hear!
At first i thought u were painting Grinch lol
Excellent.
thanks!
0:31 🌚Pooh di ko pata hai sab kuch🌚😂
I love picking up two or three colors and just seeing what happens on my paper.
that's the way to do it!
I think the last one you have to be really quick about, because then the first paint starts to dry and it won't mix well
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I did that for pallet knife painting landscapes last year, my teacher told us she was not going to let out paintings look flat😭😭
Nice
The one on the right is my fav
Thank you!
I wish I could use watercolor that well 🥲
Bro what… you sound so similar to my Oma (my grandma who passed in august) that i had to do an entire double take because WOA. (Also i like the art :3)
that's wild. maybe we're related 🙃
"Whats your favorite?" Me: no. 2
Oh 😮
La segunda mamera es mi favorita 😊
The 3rd method ❤
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What brush did you use?
Its a goats hair calligraphy brush
I personally hate working with water colors, as I work better with acrylics and I think this has helped me see why I dislike working with them. I think it's the lack of control over specifics.
Yep. It’s not for everyone
That’s definitely not the exact way I’d use wet on wet if I was going to for this purpose; it obviously doesn’t look nearly as coherent as the other examples here, but if you were a bit more gradual & intentional about it you could definitely achieve some really nice partial blending of the colors through that kind of technique instead of basically just dropping the second one on in a concentration & starkness of color contrast that makes it end up looking completely separate from the other color (you could even add several gradations gradually into the wet wash in order to get a much smoother transition even if you did leave the colors very broken & unblended). But I know you were just trying to give the general idea of the technique (I just wouldn’t want this example to make someone think it objectively isn’t as suitable of a technique for a purpose like this- it would just have to be applied a bit differently). This was a good showcase of these techniques otherwise though; I like your brushwork on the other two techniques quite a bit for such a simple example! I actually haven’t tried picking up two colors in the brush at once without blending them in watercolor (though it’s something I do often with acrylics or oils), because I just kind of assumed with the paint so fluid that it would mostly mix together by the time I got it on the paper in watercolor, unless it was really a cream/butter sort of consistency- but it definitely looks worth trying.
Another of my favorite options is optical blending. For anyone who isn’t aware of it: if you paint one of the colors (I generally recommend starting with yellow, or whatever the lightest color will be, & then not overdoing it with how darkly you apply the next color over it), let the first color fully dry, & then apply the next color wet onto dry, like a glaze, assuming it’s transparent enough to see the underlying color through, it creates a really beautiful effect, which almost reminds me of stained glass or something like that. For example, if you paint a blue over a yellow, you end up being able to see it as green, but depending on how you look at it, it’s like it also still retains its “blueness” & it’s “yellowness,” because they aren’t actually blended together. You’re just seeing light of both colors that has been reflected from both layers. It gives a kind of dimensionality to a color that you don’t get by fully blending them, but it’s also different from having broken colors side by side, or partially blended. They can all be beautiful in the right context. If you start experimenting with this kind of wet on dry technique you can also achieve a lot of different possible combinations depending on the staining/granulating properties of the two or more pigments you use.
You can use a granulating pigment to create texture & then once it’s 100% dry, do a thin glaze of a staining pigment on top, or vice versa (putting something very granulated, like lunar black, on top of a flat, smooth, luminous background of a staining color like pthalo blue can create an amazing, unique effect). Or you can overlay multiple transparent, glaze-like even layers of staining colors in different areas to get all kinds of optical mixing going on. Or you can overlay different granulating colors to get more complex textures & blending going on (just be mindful that granulating colors tend to reactivate when wet very easily [opposite side of the spectrum from staining pigments], so any time you’re painting wet on dry on top of them, you really have to be extra gentle & make sure you just go over them in one pass, because as soon as they’re wet & you paint over an already-wetted area again you’ll start displacing pigment very easily (& any significant amount of water, anything that will make any amount of puddle, will definitely give them the opportunity to lift & start moving around again). Whereas, with the staining layers, once they’re down & have dried they’re pretty locked in, & you can play around a bit more on top of them with future layers before you create a problem for yourself. Still, always advisable to avoid overworking, & once a layer reaches the damp/drying stage you should leave it alone.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. There’s only so much i can say in 30 seconds 😀
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I'm staying with an iPad and Procreate, thank you very much!
Definitely less messy
As a set, all 3.