8 Ways to Paint Holiday Lights - Easy Watercolor Christmas Card Ideas - How to 4 Beginners Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2025
- In this tutorial I will show you several different ways to paint Christmas lights. I'll also discuss concepts like wet in wet, wet on dry, dry brush, cool colors, warm colors, and more basics as I explain. I'll use salt to get textural effects of lights, gel pen, my push technique, wax resist with a crayon, line and wash otherwise known as ink and wash with a calligraphy pen, and more! Paint colorful Christmas lights or a more subdued look with these techniques!
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I love all of the trees… my favorite, though, is the top row, far right. I love the lights!
My fave is top row, far right, bright colors!!
Live the salt tree❤
All of them are gorgeous, but I like 1 and 3 the best.
Thank you for watching!
My favorite is the 3rd one with glowing lights. Thanks for being so generous with your tips.
my pleasure!
Wow! These are absolutely gently decorative and so beautiful.... great, enjoyed.
Thanks so much 😊
I love this tutorial. My favorite WS the push colors. Number 3.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial.
Thank you!
Enjoyed your tutorial! My favorite is the second technique, wet on wet with your push technique. I love how the lights “glow”
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
So useful in this season. Thanks for the lesson! ❤✴🌲
My pleasure! 💗🎨💗
Much to my surprise, I ended up liking the bottom-center tree most. Colorful moose are great fun. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thanks so much 😊
Liking the salt technique tree. They’ re all very nice though.
Glad you like them!
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you for sharing
My pleasure!
I liked the one on top right corner!! Thank you!!!!!
You're welcome!!
What fun! I’m eager to give this a try! I really enjoyed the side-by-side comparisons.
Can't wait to see your results!
Very nice! ❤
Thank you! Happy New Year!
3 & 6... Thanks
Brilliant!!
Thank you!
Love it I will definitely try it.
Have fun!
I can't pick ---- I like variety so I enjoy all the different techniques. Well done!
Thank you!
Really nice and diff great! Great job!
Thanks a lot!
Just found your channel. I love all of them but my favorite is the multicolor tree. Simply beautiful - can’t wait to try it!
Thanks so much and don't be a stranger 😊
Excellent tutorial Rachel! I love the one on the upper right best. I think I’ll try that one on a bookmark and use some salt on the lights. Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you.
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it
They’re all really pretty, but my favorite is the bottom center :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed them!
Love the loose , carefree technique , #3😍
Thank you for taking the time to comment!!!
From left to right, nos: 1, 3 and 6 are my favourite trees. The last two moose are beautiful too. Thank you very much Racherl.🌹
My pleasure! I had a lot of fun with all of them but those are my favorites too 💗🎨💗
I can’t wait to get mine😉. What a fun relaxing cool, tutorial! Loved it and I’m going to try each one.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Hola me han encantado tus arboles navideños, sobre todo el tercero de arriba. Felicidades son preciosos. Hello I have loved your Christmas trees, especially the third one above. Congratulations are precious.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This is awesome Christmas Tree tutorial Rachel. Love the wet to wet tree is my favourite.🎄 Season Greetings.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous tutorial! LOVE your moose. :)
Thank you! 😊
I love this. My favorites are the two on the right. Push technique and salt! I am going to do a facetime with my granddaughters this week and try them and the moose. What a fun thing to do for the season. Thank you for shariing your passion in watercolors with us. I have learned so much from you as I threw myself into doing pet portraits for people who had lost their dogs, after I lost my heart dog in June this year. You are a bright light.💞
How did your granddaughters like this? Happy New Year!!!
How fun and creative. Can you please make a list of all the blues and greens that you used? Or is there a list somewhere that I cannot see? Thank you thank you thank you!!
The best blues and greens I think are made by mixing Ultramarine blue with Holbein aureolin. To get a darker green add a bit of red and more blue. I rarely use tube greens.
Wow so glad I found this tutorial! Excellent!
I'm really glad you like it!
All very lovely! Thx very much. 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for tutorial.Most of all I liked first and third three!
Glad you like them!
This was fun. Thanks for the inspiration. I’ve just subscribed and look forward to more tutorials in the future. Happy holidays.
What kind of tutorials do you like?
Great tutorial, thank you! I made a lovely little Christmas tree card using the third as inspiration but adding in a few of the other fun techniques you taught. New Subscriber. 🖼
Hi Angie! It's nice to meet you and I hope to see you again in the comments : )
Thank you very much Ms Rachel for your video and kind clear explanations. One question please, at 4:12 when you were painting the yellow lights and even after that the green drops.....you mentioned that you are dropping half ''clear water drops''...but the drops were yellow/ green and red and not really ''clear water''....so I wonder about this section. Can you please explain please. Appreciate it.
You can either put little drops of clear water if you want the lights lighter, or watery drops of paint, if you want the lights to have more color. And remember, what paper you use will affect how well this technique works for you!
Thanx a lot!!! Great!
Glad you liked it!
I like the top right corner the most. Also the salty one. I liked your second moose but you flashed by it too quickly and I couldn’t see the final result?
Yes, I need to do a full tutorial on the moose. I do have a 1.5 hour tutorial on the blue background moose and an hour tutorial on the line and wash moose up on my Patreon - I will probably do a free video on just them at some point.
love the video, thank you for lots of these ideas ^^
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Anyone know what brush make and size Rachel is using here? ( I know she has a brush video but was just wanting info on this one) thanks!
Many brushes would work but I'm using my Silver Black Velvet 8 Round : )
@@rachelparkervarner Awesome, thank you❤️
My favorite tree too
The one in the top right corner is my favorite! But, how did you keep the colors from all running together when you were using wet into wet? I think that one looks the most realistic.
You have to let the paint dry just a little and not drop in too much water!
Great tutorial. I like the upper right, but they're all wonderful! Do you mind telling what blue did you use for the bottom and center-left?
I used ultramarine blue to mix my greens, I might have used some Phthalo Blue here and there too.
@@rachelparkervarner Thank you. It looks grayer than my ultramarine so it's good to know where to start mixing. It's beautiful!
@@sharonmason7704 I didn't use pure blue anywhere so that is probably why it looks grayer : )
Top right.
Top right
What are your favorite M Gram colors ❤?
@@CK-ut7uc Naphthol red is the only one I use but I just haven't tried any others