6. Creating Visual Interest with Watercolour - An Introduction for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- WANT TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR WATERCOLOUR WASHES?
We often reach a point in our progression as watercolour painters where our work seems flat and it fails to capture what we want to express about the landscape.There may be several reasons for this, but one of the most common reasons is that our watercolour washes are boring and lack interest. In this video I show you how to vary your brushstrokes and introduce you to a method of painting that I call 'Painting in Threes,' with exercises that will help to give your paintings strong visual interest.
This is the final video in a series of six for those beginning their watercolour journey. The other videos in the series are:
1) What is Watercolour
• 1. What is Watercolour...
2) Watercolour Equipment
• 2. Watercolour Equipme...
3) Watercolour Washes
• 3. Watercolour Washes ...
4) Mixing Your Watercolours
• 4. Mixing Your Waterco...
5) Painting a Watercolour Landscape
• 5. Painting a Watercol...
The equipment that I use in my watercolour videos is listed on my website:
www.ourlandsca...
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I watched many watercolor tutorials before I discovered yours. And what a discovery it is ! You explain things nobody else does, thorough and clear. Thank you so much !
Best watercolour tutorial series on here, great teaching Olly.
Thank you for this excellent video, Olly. Over the last year or so, I have watched a few hundred art videos, and I think this may be the most immediately useful for me. You are a great artist, teacher and storyteller. May all your fenceposts continue to be interesting!
Thanks Jan!
Extremely helpful! Thank you for all you do for this community that follows you.
Hi Oliver. I've wanted to watercolor for about 50 years. I'm 70 now and started a couple of months ago. Your painting is wonderful and I really appreciate this "Beginners" series. Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post these. I've learned a lot from your channel.
hey... same here. He's such a good tutor.
This is one of the best watercolor techniques lessons I have seen. We can practice all other aspects of watercolor techniques but if you don't learn how to leave room for imagination then as you say you can strangle the life out of a painting. There is a reason why people tend to hang landscape paintings on the wall rather than landscape photographs. Landscape paintings executed well quickly emphasize the emotion of the scene without getting bogged down in detail. We have to practice this just like everything else.
Exactly what I needed to see and hear! Thank you.
Thank you for another fantastic video Olly, and I really enjoyed your explanation of interesting washes v boring washes, and how to paint in threes. So good! I'm just starting to get more colour into my washes, and it really does bring the painting to life! I can't wait to see what the next vid will be "out on location" and with sketchbook too! Whoo-hoo! You mentioned a video about composition too - yes, please and thank you! Safe journeys, and thanks again x 👏😀
Delighted to see you work Live! 😍🎨🖌 Watching from Ashville, Alabama USA 🇺🇲❤️🏴❤️🇬🇧
You are a fabulous teacher and I will be watching every one of your lessons. I like that you have numbered them. And of course I subscribed and liked every one of the ones I have watched so far!
I've been gifted watercolours, paper and brushes for Christmas this year. At 61 years old you have given me the confidence to at least try. Thank you 😊
Wonderful video with ideas I'll practice soon! Laughed out loud when you talked about getting concussion from trying to walk through that boring door....Thanks so much!
One of the most helpful tutorials I've watched! Thank you!
Having just discovered your channel I am now bingeing one video after the other. I am learning so much and am grateful to you.
Another brilliant tutorial Oliver.......especially enjoyed the fencepost tribute!!! .......many thanks!
A lovely illustration and greatpainting techniques, thank you
Such wonderful advice and demonstration ! I like your painting style very much, thank you for sharing !
I started drawing and painting a few months ago, partly to see if I could paint well ( my grandad was a painter by profession ) and partly due to it's therapeutic benefit. I am hugely thankful that you are willing to take time out of your day to share some of your talent and knowledge with us. Thank you.
30 years of observation and colour mixing experience.........all the colours and most of my favoured mixes are in my two colour mixing videos, but your own experimentation is the best way to learn these different hues.
Merci Oliver, je débute l'aquarelle et j'apprends beaucoup grâce à vos vidéo. Thank you to share with us, you are a good teacher it's easy to understand .
Oh I do adore your humor Olie!
Thank you, thank you! The way you explain in detail the very basics of watercolor is just what I need as a beginner in watercolor. I appreciate it so much!
Thankyou so much for these tutorials. I love your teaching style . So inspiring and informative, but explained in an easy to understand way. Thankyou.
Thank you for such an informative video and sharing so many useful tips!
Thank you so much for this demonstration. I am a new beginner to water colour. Enjoy learning from your clear and detail explanation . Best Regards
I did tried the mini-landscape this afternoon (with the cliffs). Your technique made a huge difference. I will keep working it. Thank you
This was wonderful. I like that you show us ways to work on an area instead of the whole 15 x 11 in paper all at once. I like the 3-stage wash for an area and can't wait to implement. Lovely sense of humor as well!
Thank you so much Oliver for this very useful video & exercises 😊
Im just learning so much from you Olly. Cant thankyou enough. Looking forward to my weekends practising the "rule of 3" and eagerly anticipate your next video. Great weather now so im grabbing my small art satchel and im off out in to the landscape. Best wishes from Kent.
Best wishes to you too Casey - great time to get out doors!
This is an awesome video ! Learned and understood so much more than so many others on UA-cam I’ve watched in the last couple years love it!
This was such an excellent lesson 🙌🏼 Thank you so much for being so generous in your teaching, can’t wait to re-watch this but this time to follow along 👌🏼
As usual so much helpful info. Always get so excited when I see you’ve posted a new tutorial. Thank you so much. 😊
Wow! This is the second time I've heard you say to add some texture first as an underpainting and then go back over it with a glaze. I have similar types of cliffs in my area and the texure I add onto the cliffs always looks separate from the rest of the painting...this is so much nicer! Thank you for the insight!!!
Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. I have been attending a workshop with a woman who thinks landscape painting means taking a photograph, tracing it onto a piece of paper and colouring it in. It was appalling. I have learnt more here.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It is fact invaluable! I'm just starting out in watercolors and was frustrated and confused. Now I understand a lot more!
I’ve enjoyed all your videos but this one is my new all time fav…until the next one that is! Thank you for the details, examples and inspiration!
What an important video. Can't wait to use it in my paintings. Thanks Oliver!
I love your work! Great tutorial.
you are really the best,,, the best I have ever seen to explain so much detail in the way so clear e so undrestandble,, you make the best demos , I have ever seen ,,, thank you so much
Thank you - you're very welcome
Your paintings are amazing. Great to know your formula for success.
What a fabulous tutorial! I am NOT a beginner water color artist yet....I learned a lot in this lesson. Thank you!!!!!
So glad I found you! Love your teaching style. ❤ beautiful
Thanks so much. Your tutorials actually teach something worth practicing. What a superb teacher. And thank you for acknowledging this isn’t easy …. No more fiddling ❤
Listenning your courses I understood more what means variety in unity to create visual interest. Thanks
Brilliant tutorial Ollie, I've learnt so much from you Thank you. Looking forward to the next tutorial 😊
Hello Oliver,
Many thanks to you!
BRILLIANT CONTENT! CHEERS!
BRAVO! WELL DONE, SIR!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. As a very novice artist i found it very informative and easy to follow, not that my attempt turned out very well, i can see with practise the benefits of your 3 wash method. Thankyou i will certainly be watching again.
Thank you Oliver for a great instructional tutorial
Wow, what great information Oliver! Thanks for sharing this with us. 😊
Hé bonjour Oliver, je viens de vous découvrir, mais qu'elle merveilleuse découverte ! Vos vidéos pleines de douceurs et de subtilités, ont totalement renseigné et débloqué ma situation à l'aquarelle. Je vous suis extrement reconnaissante, toutes ces explications et démonstrations sont exactement ce que je voulais co.naitre. bien à Vous 😍 Caty
One of the best videos on watercolour I have seen Oliver...thank you for your time and knowledge.
Regards ... Martin
Cheers Martin!
Always, so very excellently taught. I have just discovered you and am learning so much! Thank you!
very good lesson, many thanks oliver
Very, very useful video. I love this technique and I’ll certainly use it in future paintings. 😊👍
I'm following this series, and it's helped me considerably. Thanks for being so generous with your art and your education.
Delighted that it's helped Don!
What a useful video. Thank you so much for putting this together for us. I am in awe of your painting skills and you are a fantastic teacher too. It is very good of you to share your expertise.
This series was absolutely the best tutorial I’ve seen! I’ve learned so much, thank you ! I’ve already started to use some of the tips you’ve given here and it’s made a night and day difference in my handling of watercolour. I usually speak the language of oil paints, thanks for being a translator for the language of watercolour! ❤️
P.s. I love your love of fence posts 😍😂
An excellent video. Thanks so much for this extremely useful and interesting video. Keep making more of these so we can learn more. Cheers!
Love the 1,2,3 approach.
Olli, I choose WC for plein air and if you could, please do it more. It's difficult to do better than atelier but working outside is gratifiant ( french word). Thanks again
Big thank you for sharing your knowledge, love it! I learned a great deal !🙏❤️
Very useful, thank you very much ! Your explanations are helping me understand how I must go on to correct myself (Québec, Canada)
une merveille! Merci!
Another great informative video Oliver. Thanks.
Thank you so much for making my life easier !! This was just what I needed as I am a perfectionist....meaning...my paintings are indeed way too detailed.
Oliver, thanks for the excellent lesson. In the beginning, I thought I would get bored but as I sat through I was attracted. I have learnt so much.
I believe these techniques will be very helpful to me in my own painting. Thank you.
Brilliant tutorial, thank you!
New subscriber here, just discovered you! What awesome watercolors you have made! Love it! Greetings all the way from the Netherlands:-))
Thank you so much for another invaluable lesson for us beginners 🇨🇦
Oliver… I paint cliffs on the beach frequently. I needed to have a refresher! Beautiful instruction and very helpful. Your method is delicate, whereas I am not. So this was helpful.
That's great Barbara
Hi 1/2/3 estupendo método. Gracias desde Arrayan Chile 💕🙏
Great tutorial Oliver thank you
Wow! Really great info! Thank you!
Hi Oliver, I'm really enjoying this series of videos, they really teach how to practice and build up knowledge on the basics (and more) of watercolour painting. Going to see if I can follow them and stick with it instead of checking out the next demo which comes along (one of the dangers of UA-cam!!
a very big thank you, that's all i have to say!!!!!!!
Another great tutorial. I believe I may have to grow my patience a bit...my first instructor felt that a good painting couId be accomplished in 20 minutes...and I think that has stayed with me. (After a career as an ad artist he could produce a nice painting!) Love the initial dry brush marks on the roof. You are a great teacher as well as artist👍.
A good painting certainly can be painted quickly. However, it's not a benchmark that everyone should try to achieve and it ignore the fact that most beginners haven't refined their skills to enable them to do that. There is nothing wrong with taking time and approaching your painting with care precision (a dirty word to many watercolour tutors, although I have no idea why!) It doesn't mean that you will have an overworked, tight painting as some may think.
Thank you. It was very very useful . I will certainly try it. Appreciate your sharing
Thank you, just love the colour palette that you use. Trying still not the same.😞
Thank you. I enjoyed
That was super!
Very useful, excited to try it!
New subscriber… thank you for your tutorials. I was especially interested in the brush and water control exercises and keeping a bead of water as your working down the paper. I saw that somewhere else but forgot it. I’ve been following watercolor tutorials for a couple years and while I have turned out some nice paintings I notice I just end up painting like the artist who’s giving the tutorial 😂🙄 I also noticed the way you handle the brush.. no jamming it into the paint or rough handling on the paper. It seems more like gentle non intrusive gestures that try not to interfere too much.
Yes I have that problem…I love the luminance of the paper, the white, but often start out too dark then have to over darken to get the contrast I like but ruins the luminosity of the paper by the time I’m done and no more white. Probably why I took notice of your hand movements.. sometimes I find myself saying… Look, you’ve attacked the paper again, calm down 😂
Could u include a short video on using the (3 method) in black and white of , let say a barn? Also a roof top with snow in black and white.
So glad I found you
Thanks soo much for numbering the 6 beginner courses. What about an intermediate ?
Learned so much from your video. Thank you Oliver for sharing your talents with so many. Do you have a favorite green or do you mix them?
Amazing... Love your videos ❤
Thank you.
Wow, I continue to be impressed and grateful for the content you so generously share with us all! Thank you so much and I hope there's an outreach program available to help us all with our over-commitment to drawing in every. single. detail. haha
Ha! I think the World Health Organisation has the development of such programs on its list of priorities!
Rey very helpful :)
Very didactic ! Thank you Oliver !
'didactic' often has a negative connotation, but I'm sure your use of it here is positive Aura.
I'm very sorry !! My intention was to say that it was very interesting and useful....my english is not as good as I wish.
@@auraservent7282 No, no, don't apologise! I did take it as a positive! I'm sure that your English is much better than my attempts at your language........where are you from Aura?
I'm from Cerdanyola near Barcelona 😊
@@auraservent7282 Lovely - I've never been, but my son is going to Barcelona for a week in September. He's really looking forward to it.
I learned sooo much from this tutorial so thank you for that. I hope you are able to continue your counseling regarding the fence posts but I think you are heading in the right direction 🙂. How do feel about using a touch of salt for texture in grass?
Love your subtle humor. 😂🤭
Thank you Oliver! Could you please show how to colour the opening landscape of this video wallpaper? It's a stunning seascape
my normal colour palette and how to mix my favourite hues are detailed in most of my videos. Experimenting is the best way to learn the different mixes that you need.
Beautiful vieuws of your fine arts.
Paysages très proches du Nord de la France. I regret new formalités to join England so nearest
Thanks Andre - yes, much similarity with Normandie, Bretagne etc. I also spent some time visiting Poitou-Charente, near Poitiers and Limoges and the countryside is very similar there too - fields, oaks. Lovely.
Hello from Montana
What kind of rigger brush is that?
what type of watercolor and paper is that
I forgot to ask: was that a script brush you were using for fine detail?
A rigger or liner brush
Wonderful video! I learned a lot... until you encouraged me to create dilapidated fences. 😂 What an eye opener! I finally know why so many landscape paintings have deplorable fences when I never see them in real life. And I laughed so hard at your joke about counseling for your fence painting my daughter came in to see what was so funny.😀
Thx - Glad you enjoyed it!