Watercolor for Noobs - Basic Supplies
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Interested in learning about watercolor but intimidated by all the fanciness out there? Today is the first in a series called "Watercolor for Noobs" - I'm going to demystify watercolors a little so you can get started! Today we talk supplies - what exactly do you need (and what exactly ARE all these different things) to get started!
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Love this series! Yes to the water brush video.
I have watched so many watercolor videos and this has got to be the one with the most helpful information. No one has ever talked about what each brush is for so I've been buying brushes like crazy trying to find ones like what their using. Since they don't specify what it's for. OMG thank you so much, by the way your hair is beautiful in this video.
I AM HERE FOR THIS RIGHT NOW
Love your makeup Cindy! 😍 that lipstick looks stunning on you!
Thank you! You make it so simple, I'm so excited to start.
I am so excited about this series of videos. Thank you so much for everything. I just binge watched your plan as you go videos.
Thank you!! I had no clue what a watercolor block was. Kick ass vid with great info!!
you're so welcome!
Love the plushy kidney in the background!!!!
Definitely want that water brush video!
This series is going to be awesome!! I would love to know more about water brushes please
Thanks you sooo much! Great tips, you saved me a lot of $$$.I appreciate your candor!
I'd love to see a video on water brushes! I LOVE that you're doing this series because I'm just starting to get more into watercoloring!
I love this. I’m planning on making some watercolor sticker paper and washi, so this is perfect timing.
awesome! glad that I found your chanel! 💖
Thank you, this was very helpful!
Love it! Ever since I started my bujo I’ve been super motivated to try watercolors but have no idea where to start! This is super helpful hope the series continues
I loved this video! I would love to see a video about the water brushes. I'm looking to incorporate watercolor into my bullet journal. Thanks!
I have been thinking about watercolors, and I was just at Michael's today, but I was overwhelmed! Glad you are doing this series!
Love this! Waterbrush review would be nice. Thanks!
I’m so glad you started this series. Can you do the full video on water brushes?
Ahahaha you’re so funny! Love this! Thank you !!! I need my anxiety to stop and I figured watercoloring will get the fkn shit done.
Thank you Im going to try my watercolor again.
Thank you!!! I watch all your videos and I was really wanting more info about water colors. It looks so easy but when I try it looks like a brown puddle! I look forward to more watercolor noobs!
Thank you Cindy you video it is a big help. I am inspired to get out my paints and have another go. :)
Yes to the water brush review
I watch all of your videos anyway but if I wouldn't, I would now! 💕 I love watercolors but don't know much about them! Thanks for all the great content!
Thanks so much for this! Great information! Would love a video on water brushes :)
Yup. We need a whole video on water brushes.
Great noob watercolour vid! Was really helpful! Also wanted to say it was refreshing listening to this video! Nice to hear someone just talk and try not to be all proper. Or maybe it’s because I talk very similar when I’m not trying to be ‘proper’. Anyways, it’s nice to hear. Feels more real and connected.
This was perfect timing. I just tried out my Michaels Artist Loft watercolors last night. It was not perfect but a lot of fun and now you have also given me the tips to help make it more efficient. 😁 Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you for this Cindy! Every time I see someone use water color I think I need to do it, so I've bought some supplies but have not had the courage/know-how to use them yet {rolls eyes at self}
You make me laugh 😂 I love your videos
Tube watercolours (depending on the size of tube) will be enough to set up 3-4 palettes so if people were interested in trying a more expensive brand you could share the cost of the paints with friends and each buy your own plastic palette (would recommend something with a lid). I purchased a set at the end of last year and have so far set up a palette for myself as well as palettes for two friends and the tubes are still half full - just an idea. Love the videos Cindy!
This is awesome! Thank you so much. Please include a video specifically on water brushes? And I'd love to watch one on watercolor pencils as well.
Thank you so much! Just bought some things in your Amazon shop LOL!
Yes!! Please do a video on water brushes! Also, I see people doing watercolour with Tombow's - can you do something about that?
Came for the watercolor advice, subbed for your personality❤
I have those degrees too!
I would also love to see a day of yours at work if TJ ‘s allows that sort of thing.
I would love to know more about water brushes...they seem much handier than two cups of water...particularly when you try to craft with cats who can't leave you alone. :)
Nicole from Sweet Stamp Shop had a tip of using an ice tray for clean water when water coloring.
Yes please do a water brush video. Love learning about different brushes.
i love talking about paint brushes and waterbrushes so you got it!
I'd love to see a video on the Aquabrush style brushes. I have one, but I've been too scared to try it. 😬
gggrrrrrllll... I literally JUST went to Michaels today specifically to look at their watercolor paints and supplies. You CLEARLY read my mind when I thought "I really wish I knew more about these different water colors - I wonder if the $5 artists loft is worth buying." Questions asked and answered! Thanks! I'm excited about this series. Yes please do a video about the waterbrushes. Also tombow dual brush pens - how to use them as watercolors.
I would love to see a waterbrush video. My mom is a serious watercolor artist (who is getting older) and I am always looking for ideas for gifts for her, so your thoughts would be great!
I wanna see a water brush video!
I didn't realize that some Walmarts (possibly all not sure, all the ones in my area do) carry Canson XL and Strathmore pads in the craft section. It's got more paper per pad and a lot cheaper than Michael's charges. I like the Folkart brand Golden Taklon brushes cause the round set I have holds a good amount of water without being too much. You can pick those up at Walmart in that same area usually by the bottles of Folkart Acrylic paints.
it's been more then 2 weeks... there is only one ep in this playlist... you are my spoonie spirit animal FYI. Found you today and I am running out of watercolour videos...... AAAAAAAH!
Love this video series!! I have a beginner palette, water color journal and a size small Aquash by Pentel. I would love to hear your thoughts on water brushes please. 💜💜💜
A suggestion for a supply you will want very soon into watercoloring if you’re impatient: a heat gun or blow dryer to dry the paint in between stages of your picture.
Thanks. Nice introduction to watercolor. A video on waterbrushes would be great. There are so many brands. It gets confusing.
it absolutely does, especially when the different brands load water differently (I seriously thought I was losing my marbles once when I couldn't figure out how to make one work!)
Awesome video to watch at 5:30am getting ready for work. Thank you for making my mornings better
Yeessss to the video of water brushes! Title ‘water brushes for the noobs” haha
Hey, there! Thanks for the video. Would love you to share anything you know about! I've always really struggled with water brushes because it feels like there's never enough water in there! Having a mini spray bottle actually works better for me. I'll just super slowly spray the end of my brush so that the spray bottle is only letting out like, a slowly massing drop of water at the nozzle. It seems to me I have control and well, enough water. But I really love the idea of the water brush, I just feel like I'm the only person that cannot get it to work for them!
You should try out the koi watercolors
This video is excellent! Thanks so much for starting this series. It's exactly what I need. I would like to see a video on choosing and using water brushes / aquabrushes. I'd also like to hear whether (and how!) you combine watercolor backgrounds with ink or fineliner drawings, and other kinds of pens that work well in combination with watercolor. For example, I tried using some cheap sparkly gel pens over some equally cheap watercolor washes a few months ago, and while the end product wasn't bad, the sparkly gel pens had to be trashed because they got clogged up with (chalk?) from the cheap watercolor.
that is an excellent suggestion, and yes I can do both of those!
Thank you!
Barbara West this is everything I would want to know more of
or hey crayola watercolors have always been one of my faves for fun😛😬
do you have a studio tour on here?
Will you do a video on watercolor pencils? So excited for this series!! And thank you for recommending Mary Doodles, love her channel too.
I will be! i'm giving them their own video as they are their own beast. and I'm so glad, I love her!
Im commenting BEFORE I even watch this video because I want to start watercoloring in my hobonichi techo and I have been back and forth for a while about what to get what to use whats the best blah blah blah! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!
I’d love to see a video on water brushes!!
it may just be a video of me snuggling my favorite ones because I love them so much 😬😂😂
love you lady. thanks for making my day... every time.
awww you're so welcome
You crack me up and educate me, perfect combo!!
The feeling when you said ”dont be afraid of using your watercolourpaper”.. have to stop using printerpaper I guess! 😂
And yes, a video about those waterbrushes would be a hughe help! 😃
I literally just got a watercolor tube set and have been kinda playing with them but not really knowing what I am doing, so talk about perfect timing!
Btw Cindy, you are fucking awesome!!! ❤️
LOL we're not even a minute in and you've already got me rollin
i love to save comments like these to remind my children that some people actually do find me funny 😂😂
Cindy Guentert-Baldo you are hilarious! I love watching your videos!
Thank you for watercolor 101. I really want to get into them, but I got to get over the fact I just can't slap thick layers on like I can with acrylics. I actually bought the Artist loft Necessities pack for painting (because I am rough with my brushes too) and second not buying them. If they are not shedding, then I can't use them because the ferrule comes off because the glue isn't really strong enough. I just wish I watched this before buying them. 😂
those brushes make me SOOOOO ANGRY. 😡 i'm glad to help, I know it can be super intimidating
Cindy Guentert-Baldo Me too, but my cheap ass is going to try to salvage something out of them. Thank you so much!
This is awesome! I have spent so much money on “great” brushes, paper and palettes. Then when I get home, I look at it being to fucking scared to touch it so I haven’t done shit with watercolors. I would love to see a video on the watercolor brushes cause I have been eyeing those little suckers for awhile but didn’t want to spend the money, which is weird cause I spent way to much on everything else. I know, “it don’t make no sense man.”
dude, I still have things I bought that i'm too scared to try. I am trying to force myself out of that mindset so I can actually get my money's worth rather than dropping more money on more shit I don't use, know what I mean? haha
Cindy Guentert-Baldo, yes and how do you get over that fear of “ruining something?” I mean there is inspiration everywhere but that’s where the problem stems from, it won’t look perfect or there is people like you that your art is fantastic and I won’t measure up so why ruin a good thing? I get in that loop in my head and I can’t make it stop so then I don’t do any art cause of this stupid fucking perfection voice in my head. How do you ignore it and continue on?
Water brush video vote! :)
😂 "I have a Bachelors degree from the school of 'figuring shit out', minoring in 'what the fuck am I doing'." 😂 Omg, you should consider writing a book containing Cindy-isms--I would TOTALLY buy it! 📝👍
my big thing is that I want to experiment with some of the metallic watercolors that are out there. The Tansai Gambi in metallic and gem are the ones that caught my eye and I'm thinking of getting those in their individual sets rather than the big huge one. Do you know of any other brands that do metallic or pearl that might be fun? (I think Finetec does some don't they?)
Water brushes video please.
Thank you for this. Just this week I've been really getting into watercoloring. I have the basic but I'm interested in to see what else you have in store.
Yaaaaas been waiting for this, Thankyou lovely xxx I lose it with my water cour pencils no matter how lightiamialways see the pencil marks but if I'm too light there's hardly any pigment I think I'm doing it wrong even with watercolour paper lolxxx
I'll be talking about watercolor pencils all on their own in a specific video
Cindy Guentert-Baldo thanks lovely 💖 xxxxx 🤗 🤗
Oh, good! This was something I left off my laundry list! :D
Water brush video plzzzzzz
Thanks for all the info! About brushes, do you keep a set that you only use for watercolors or do you also use these with acrylic paint? I've noticed my brushes have some residue from acrylics and it affects my watercoloring later. Just wondering if this is common or maybe I'm not cleaning them well enough?
I’m so excited for this series! I would love some tips for using regular watercolor brushes. I’m so used to using a waterbrush and am struggling with the paint brushes.
And sadly the series is never continued
Thanks Cindy! Now I want to buy all the paints! 😁I’ve already bought some watercolor for my boys. I may stick with watercolor if I treat myself to paints.
I have a master's degree in how the fuck did she do that. Thank you very much for the store of watercolor tools. I have a set of the brushes with water in the shaft and I would be interested to know your views on them. I think I have found techniques that work pretty well for me but then I'm new at it and I'm always willing to learn.
Yes, Cindy, please do a video about aqua brushes. I recently used my first aqua brush for the first time and it leaked so much I had to empty it and use it like a regular brush with a water cup. Kind of defeats the purpose. I have no idea what I did wrong, how I broke it or if it was just a cheapo...
Last year I bought a set of Viviva Colorsheets and one of their waterbrushes. They are watercolour paints on, as the name suggests, sheets, in a little flipbook - little enough to just slip into your bag and hold in the palm of your hand - you activate the paint by dipping the waterbrush on the strip of paint on the sheet, and they don't leak away from the sheet anywhere - very transportable and user-friendly. I'd never used watercolour paints before - (I'm blaming my influenza b/stuck at home for 8 weeks induced state for my (very) impulse purchase haha - the price wasn't that bad, but considering they are an Indian company (through IndieGogo), the US conversion rate plus shipping to here in Australia was a killer - my influenza made me not give a rats lol) but these are actually fun to create with. I'd never actually painted before either - but this impulse buy has got me interested in learning how to use these watercolours/my waterbrush.
I'd love a video on techniques when using waterbrushes, please - that would be great! :)
Thumbs up for this motherfucking set😂
What happened to the rest of the series? 😱😬
I’m a n00b
Ahh omg this brought me back to the after school art class I took when I was around 7 or 8. And holy shit I also remember working with oil pastels and turpentine! I remember REALLY enjoying it 😂😂 (kidding kidding, don't do it kids)
I don't know how they were getting away with small children using that shit
You didn’t mention one of the bigger places people can get great stuff cheap! Buy sell and trade groups! But duh, buyer be cautious and use PayPal for protection.
dang u crack me up but wish it was lil less cussin😏
I can't help but admire your stuffed shitty kidney. Is it wierd that I want one?