My paintings continue to look like the one on the left... I just don't "see" the light and shadows while painting, nor can I envision them. As I watch and learn, I am at least getting more than one value, usually two (and sometimes three) values while painting . Your video was very helpful and I will continue trying the technique. Thank you! Your instructional videos always teach me a little something when I watch them!
Hi,I think you should prep your painting, there are many artists that have use of grey scale picture or do a value study with pencil or shades of neutral tint , premixing colours is also helpful to speed up process and ease focus , if you paint a picture or screenshot use your phone to apply a filter grey scale and adjust contrast and luminosity to identify these values
So a couple of exercises that you can do to learn to see your values better are: 1) squinting your eyes, and 2) doing a contour drawing, and, 3) spend all of your free time just looking at everything around you as it is. 1) is pretty self explanatory. 2) a contour drawings is a line usually, but not always done in one continuous line, and sometimes without even looking at your paper. By following the contours of the lights and darks in VERY subtle changes, you learn to see everything in a new way from shadows to color variations. The more you practice doing this, the better you get at it. 3) also a bit self explanatory, but it also helps when you really stop to look at the world around you. When you slow down, you realize that a tree isn’t just a trunk with leaves on it, but a made up of thousands of different various shapes, colors and shades. The same goes for your coffee cup in the morning. Many times when we’re too busy, we don’t stop to see these things and our brain fills in the rest and we think we make a tree that looks like a tree instead of making what we actually see! With practice of all of these things, it does get much easier, but the best part is, that once you have a trained eye like this, you won’t ever be able to see the world the same again! To add to that, if done the same way with colors and really stop to SEE the colors that can make up the colors we need or see, the easier that it will also be to mix your colors in your palette as well! These are exercises I learned in college as a studio art major. The very last one for mixing colors was my favorite! Even if I didn’t really understand color theory at the time which was just something my brain never really processed until years later and ironically only clicked while watching the 30th YT on it 😖, one lesson taught DID help me to learn to paint any color that I needed from the colors I had. The assignment was to go to the paint isle in the store and find 10 random color swatches. Then we were to cut them out into 1” squares and then use the colors we had on our palettes to make that color. We weren’t allowed to cheat or use ‘convenience colors’ to mix what we needed to match our swatches. This was a bit easier since we used acrylic or oil paints that were more opaque, but the same can be done in watercolor as well. Without having any sort of background in color theory, this can still be done with a trained eye be you can still see if a color needs more blue or a tinge more red for example. I can now match any colors I need or see with 99% accuracy with only the colors o have on a basic palette! The last 1% left, being for colors like fluorescents and neons for obvious reasons. I got so good at it, I used to do these exercises just for fun! I highly recommend these exercises as they help TREMENDOUSLY in your art and are of the most useful things I ever got out of my whole entire studio art major education, which is kinda of sad to say, because it was a very expensive lesson especially since I already knew so much about art going into college, but it definitely helped to actually learn to really see the world we live in! I know that was long, but I hope that helps! It definitely helped me along with a boat load of practicing which comes with the territory!!
@@BeachMum thank you ❤️ Yes, the whole color wheel thing is still hard to wrap my head around too! Mixing colors is still hard, but I find myself doing more as I paint more and learn my basic colors. Observation is key... I agree. I think my logical brain has a hard time being creative and artistic... but watercolor painting is sure helping!
@@oussamabenmebarek4804 thank you ❤️ I have actually watched a UA-cam artist demonstrate grey scale and found it interesting. Guess I need to give it a try! My logical brain needs to see the actual shades instead of trying to create shadows.
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Great tutorial! I totally get what you are saying, but have to admit that I still think both the pots are beautiful and usable in different types of art. I loved watching you paint the leaves and am going to try to not be so intentional in painting each individual leaf as a leaf shape. Yours look so much better. Thank you so much! ❤
This was SOOO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL in more ways than I can describe!! Adding yellow to the paints to make that area warmer and blue to make it cooler will be a game changer for me! Also, when you mentioned the word ‘golden’, it all of a sudden clicked with how light coming through the trees _glow_ in watercolour paintings! Thank you sooo much!!
This video arrived right when I needed it. Over the last month I've been struggling to understand why my paintings were looking so flat, and getting frustrated. Now here you are giving me the answer I needed. Thank you! ✨🖌️🖼️
Thanks that was very useful. So thats how you paint with just one brush and mix your colours. We beginners keep our colours separate and use multiple brushes.
I haven't done watercolor in decades and this was a very helpful reminder. I usually work in acrylic, but also oil, and watercolor pencils, but brushing with pan or tube color, it's been a long time and it doesn't work like any other medium.
Finally a video that shows me what to do (or not do). Maybe I'm just a visual learner but I get bored and lost when others drone on and on. Thanks so much. I'll keep watching!
Love your style! You are an excellent teacher - very clear explanations for someone like me, a beginner with a bit of painting exp. wanting to go to next level. Can’t wait to practice creating more effective highlights & shadows. I will definitely be checking out the rest of your channel/resources. Thank you!
That makes sense about the light coming in on the right and paint lighter colours to emphasise this on the pot and leaves. Definitely looks more natural and balanced too. Thank you Kristin for your time sharing 🌹
Thanks that really helps. I like to do architectural urban sketches and my trees always look awful. So yellow green at light source blending to blue green in shadow.
This is one of the most helpful videos I’ve seen! Love the side by side comparison! It makes a huge difference to see it this way. ❤ PS- congrats on over 100k views!!
Great explanation of basics to practice. Learning to paint is just that…learning! None of us are born knowing how to do this. If you consider yourself a newcomer…be patient and practice always!
The left pot is fine unless you want to learn the relationship of light and shading to give it more depth…most importantly is to enjoy yourself and play ❤
I like the one on the left as well - it’s simple and more abstract. The right one is nice too, but it feels a bit like it’s trying too hard to be realistic while not quite getting there.
Thanx for very useful application tips, most of us know the contest provides the best definition of any subject in a graphic manner. The key as you explained is in how wet or dry the surface verses how wet or dry the brush. Thanks once again.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight, and techniques. i just painted a house and fence with a tree and i realized it wasn’t quite right and now i know why. Thank you!!
Well I'm biting the bullet and bought my first watercolor beginning set!! Thank you for the lessons in this cute but amazing rendering of the two drawings.
Excellent explanation. Thank you so much. I have been painting for quite a while, but I always enjoy hearing and seeing such a clear demonstration. Well done!
Just found you and have subscribed. You have taught me a lot in just one, short video. You explain everything so well and in such a way that I will remember it which is quite an achievement as I have ME with “ brain fog”. I love watercolour but I never seem to get it right - it really looks like the first pot! I shall try this out and look forward to your next video. Thank you😊🎉
This was just outstanding! You were very clear with this and although I have done WC a bit, never has the issue of light source and contrast and how to leave white areas explained so very well. And yur color mixing! Just oustanding and thank you! Agree with another's comment - do more like this please!
Thanks for the tips. I somehow like both paintings equally. The right is more realistic and beautiful. But I actually like to look at the left more because it makes me feel happy inside. I don't know why..there's just something about it. (maybe because it's more childlike...?)
Thank you so much for showing us the difference in watercolor beginners and some experienced techniques. Was very easy to see once pointed out in demonstration. 🤗❤️👍🏽💯
I have a background in digital art and using mechanical pencils-it’s almost ingrained in me to paint like the left but I ironically use pencil similarly to watercolour. Sketching out the lights and going back in to darken things while leaving the brightest parts white. I genuinely didn’t realize how similar watercolour was to pencils until recently, and they’ve overtaken acrylics as my favourite kind of paint. Your voice is wonderful to listen to, and you are concise about the points you are explaining. I used to attend an art university, and this is giving the kind of quality I would expect from instructors for studio classes. (I graduated HS in 2020 and started art uni in 2020-so everything was online lmao)
Thank you, Kristin! Incredible tutorial. Interesting how you don’t see the bad one as “bad” until the good one is painted right next to it!!! Love your channel so much😍😍😍
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Excellent tutorial. I learned more in your short video than an entire class I once took. Thank you for sharing your energy, water colour skills, teaching and communication skills. It really makes a difference ❤❤❤
I think there are many beginners who still make this mistake. They don’t know where to learn this knowledge. Your channel should be seen by more people.
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Thank you for such great tips! I've been trying to figure out how to paint like the flower pot on the right side with the sun highlights. I appreciate your help in taking time to share this with us. Very much appreciated. I'm looking forward to more helpful tips on watercoloring painting.
Enjoyed your pots. Mine would look like on the left but I'm keeping your example cause it applies to many things with light and dark. Thank you,,from a semi beginner.
There are also just two different and equally valid styles. I still like the one on the left. If being done intentionally it’s not a problem. But it’s good to have the skills to know the results and choose the style intentionally. The one on the left seems more overcast/low contrast and the one on the right has a bright lightsource like bright sunlight, etc.
New to your channel! Love love love love love! Ty!! ❤ I am making paper and playing with all of this. The paper has a great texture but acts a but different. Anyway, I have added marigold seeds to the paper and has the words, "plant love". I then watercolor a marigold ...this helps SO much!
A left pot is placed in a shade, I'd excuse. It's very helpful & easier to understand dos & don'ts in this way. To do would be that easy, but got ready for a new challenge. A nice footage, enjoyable. An amazing thing is painting & talking in parallel beautifully. It's often said our brain is not for doing two things at the same time. Thanks!
I just found your videos, new subscriber. I love that you did a side by side comparison painting. It is much easier to see what I have been doing wrong when there is an example of how to do and how not to do. Please do more of these types of videos with instruction. I have tried watercolors for years, off and on, and found them so difficult to master. I started with oil paints back in the 70"s then went to acrylic paints. It is quite different using watercolor and found it is less forgiving. I am still wanting to try though.
I definitely do the left simple one which I still enjoy as a simple rendering but thanks so much for showing a way to elevate the watercolor! Even the whoa die including leaves is a good tip!😊
Vielen Dank für das sehr ausführliche Video mit der Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung. Es ist mir eine sehr große Hilfe. Ich male noch nicht so lange mit Aquarellfarben. Es macht auch Spaß Dir beim malen zuzuschauen. Bei Dir sieht alles so leicht aus. Viele Grüße aus München in Deutschland, Angela
I dedicate a small fabric piece, like an old napkin, as my "paper towel" instead. I love to see it getting the used look ❤ 😊 I use watercolors and acrylic paints so some have already great colors in them as they tell my journey 😂🌱 Thank you for this! I just said in my last video as well, that I am struggling still with the shadows and lights as I don't see them yet so clearly. So practise practice practice!
Incredible!! You are such a fantastic teacher!! Thank you for explaining it so well, and for giving a contrasting example.❤😊 I feel like i should probably rewatch this every time i get out my watercolors😂
This is great. I haven’t been doing watercolor for long but I’ve always thought that mine looked “paint by numbers” esque. This is very helpful, thanks!
Excellent video, I subscribed to your channel. Very useful to see WHAT the differences are side by side, and HOW to fix the mistakes. Also, to me, very helpful to realise HOW MUCH TIME and GOING OVER this small painting it actually takes to get these lovely results! I tend to rush because other videos leave me always under the impression that the real artists paint everything so much quicker and I am way too slow. Thank you! ❤
I took my first collegiate art class after I retired from the military. It was an introduction to watercolor at midwestern state university in Wichita Falls Texas and Liz Ash was not only a jewel at watercolor but printing and composition as well. Being retired military I never finished the degree but what I gained from the time is immeasurable
love the video. having an art degree but haven't used watercolour in over 15 years I picked it up a few days ago and boy, was there a little learning curve
This is video was very helpful! I saw another channel where they take a picture with an iPhone and turn it to black and white and high contrast paintings look good and low contrast paintings look totally flat
Thanks for sharing your best practices for starting watercolor paintings. I definitely enjoyed seeing the comparison and how you build up the right picture. I'm sure with practice anyone could create their own "right picture" version :)
Thank you! I never thought I had the patience for watercolor in the past but recently decided to try it again and that got me really excited to learn it this time.
Wow truly truly thank you for taking time out of your life to help teach people these wonderful techniques! And thank you for walking us through it this is great and I feel so inspired!! Thank you!!
This is a great tutorial. We all keep learning and I loved the result 🤍 I noticed in you playlists you have a leaf painting tutorial... but no-one makes tutorials about how to do those really loose bunches of leaves as in the left hand side of this video. So I was already impressed by the left hand side😊...but the right hand side was beautiful xx
Thank you so much for these helpful tips! I’ve only just begun to learn watercolor now that my sons are older and need me less. My youngest son is turning four and absolutely adores all sorts of color playing. At least some of my interest is to stay ahead of him in art and figure out how to teach these things to him later.
While you gave many valuable tips in this video, i was amazed to see you paint the leaves of the plant, even in the left example - the shapes and the ease with which you put them down shows just how well you understand what you're doing! Watercolors really are 'painting with light', or rather, not painting where the light is brightest. I also ended up liking both example pots for their own merits :)
This made a lot of sense... although I used to use gouache so I could cheat and get away with whiting out areas that I wanted to emphasize... watercolor definitely has a different vibe where you need to think it out before you go straight in. I like tge look, but I find it difficult to work with tbh 😢
I think if one is aiming for more realistic painting then yes, shadows,depth and form are important. I was taught still-life painting in school and I loved and excelled at the technique and I would absolutely paint my pot like the second one. However art is freedom. The first pot is beautiful in its simplicity. You paint your pot however you want to. There is not wrong or right way in art. As Bob Ross said ‘There are only happy mistakes.’.
exactly! the only thing i think when i see titles like hers (males do it too) i just think.....the entire point of art is to create from your heart. there is no true right and wrong way. even within the realm of realism, there is no one right way, as there are so many approaches.
Well most people want to learn how to paint more realistically though and as my former art teacher said, you have to be able to draw and paint pretty accurate to the eye and only then will you be able to make intentional choices like making it more abstract, using a surrealist color scheme, etc. This video is aimed at people who *unintentionally* paint the pot on the left.
Pls let's stop taking advices as if we don't understand it's purpose. There's always this self-defensive talk about the wrong ways when nobody said it's actually wrong.
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the left one would be my master piece
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you're funny Lol
yo this is so real.
LOL..I'm still at the point that I would be happy if I could paint the pot on the left!!!!
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
Yep same 😂
Same, but I like having something to reach for in the moments when it feels doable!
@@user__214 I agree. I tried it and it actually worked. I was pleased!
@@sunnyscott4876 That's awesome
My paintings continue to look like the one on the left... I just don't "see" the light and shadows while painting, nor can I envision them. As I watch and learn, I am at least getting more than one value, usually two (and sometimes three) values while painting . Your video was very helpful and I will continue trying the technique. Thank you! Your instructional videos always teach me a little something when I watch them!
Hi,I think you should prep your painting, there are many artists that have use of grey scale picture or do a value study with pencil or shades of neutral tint , premixing colours is also helpful to speed up process and ease focus , if you paint a picture or screenshot use your phone to apply a filter grey scale and adjust contrast and luminosity to identify these values
Great!
So a couple of exercises that you can do to learn to see your values better are:
1) squinting your eyes, and
2) doing a contour drawing, and,
3) spend all of your free time just looking at everything around you as it is.
1) is pretty self explanatory.
2) a contour drawings is a line usually, but not always done in one continuous line, and sometimes without even looking at your paper. By following the contours of the lights and darks in VERY subtle changes, you learn to see everything in a new way from shadows to color variations. The more you practice doing this, the better you get at it.
3) also a bit self explanatory, but it also helps when you really stop to look at the world around you. When you slow down, you realize that a tree isn’t just a trunk with leaves on it, but a made up of thousands of different various shapes, colors and shades. The same goes for your coffee cup in the morning. Many times when we’re too busy, we don’t stop to see these things and our brain fills in the rest and we think we make a tree that looks like a tree instead of making what we actually see!
With practice of all of these things, it does get much easier, but the best part is, that once you have a trained eye like this, you won’t ever be able to see the world the same again! To add to that, if done the same way with colors and really stop to SEE the colors that can make up the colors we need or see, the easier that it will also be to mix your colors in your palette as well!
These are exercises I learned in college as a studio art major. The very last one for mixing colors was my favorite! Even if I didn’t really understand color theory at the time which was just something my brain never really processed until years later and ironically only clicked while watching the 30th YT on it 😖, one lesson taught DID help me to learn to paint any color that I needed from the colors I had. The assignment was to go to the paint isle in the store and find 10 random color swatches. Then we were to cut them out into 1” squares and then use the colors we had on our palettes to make that color. We weren’t allowed to cheat or use ‘convenience colors’ to mix what we needed to match our swatches. This was a bit easier since we used acrylic or oil paints that were more opaque, but the same can be done in watercolor as well. Without having any sort of background in color theory, this can still be done with a trained eye be you can still see if a color needs more blue or a tinge more red for example. I can now match any colors I need or see with 99% accuracy with only the colors o have on a basic palette! The last 1% left, being for colors like fluorescents and neons for obvious reasons. I got so good at it, I used to do these exercises just for fun!
I highly recommend these exercises as they help TREMENDOUSLY in your art and are of the most useful things I ever got out of my whole entire studio art major education, which is kinda of sad to say, because it was a very expensive lesson especially since I already knew so much about art going into college, but it definitely helped to actually learn to really see the world we live in!
I know that was long, but I hope that helps! It definitely helped me along with a boat load of practicing which comes with the territory!!
@@BeachMum thank you ❤️ Yes, the whole color wheel thing is still hard to wrap my head around too! Mixing colors is still hard, but I find myself doing more as I paint more and learn my basic colors. Observation is key... I agree. I think my logical brain has a hard time being creative and artistic... but watercolor painting is sure helping!
@@oussamabenmebarek4804 thank you ❤️ I have actually watched a UA-cam artist demonstrate grey scale and found it interesting. Guess I need to give it a try! My logical brain needs to see the actual shades instead of trying to create shadows.
I love the side by side comparison painting. Do more of these😊
I love too.. !!! Please do more Diane, merci ❤
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You explained the beauty of watercolors so clearly--light source, layering, patience!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
This was really helpful - the side by side comparison really highlighted the differences. Thank you.
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One of the BEST watercolor tutorials I’ve EVER watched! So glad I found you!
Hello. I'm the pot on the left. It's taken me 13 days to muster up enough self esteem to say something. I though we were friends. Damn.
This gotta be the betrayal of the year
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Great tutorial! I totally get what you are saying, but have to admit that I still think both the pots are beautiful and usable in different types of art. I loved watching you paint the leaves and am going to try to not be so intentional in painting each individual leaf as a leaf shape. Yours look so much better. Thank you so much! ❤
This was SOOO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL in more ways than I can describe!!
Adding yellow to the paints to make that area warmer and blue to make it cooler will be a game changer for me! Also, when you mentioned the word ‘golden’, it all of a sudden clicked with how light coming through the trees _glow_ in watercolour paintings!
Thank you sooo much!!
I just learned more in this vid than in a week of following beginner tutorials. Thanks!
THE best watercolor tutorial! Why have I never seen this explained clearly like this?
Please do more of the same with different subjects. Thank you.😀
Thank you for explaining this so clearly! You have a rare talent for both painting AND explaining the steps.
This video arrived right when I needed it. Over the last month I've been struggling to understand why my paintings were looking so flat, and getting frustrated. Now here you are giving me the answer I needed. Thank you! ✨🖌️🖼️
I painted this! Yay! Looooved the video. It's super helpful when tutorial videos show a do and don't comparison paintings side by side!
Thanks that was very useful. So thats how you paint with just one brush and mix your colours. We beginners keep our colours separate and use multiple brushes.
I haven't done watercolor in decades and this was a very helpful reminder. I usually work in acrylic, but also oil, and watercolor pencils, but brushing with pan or tube color, it's been a long time and it doesn't work like any other medium.
Finally a video that shows me what to do (or not do). Maybe I'm just a visual learner but I get bored and lost when others drone on and on. Thanks so much. I'll keep watching!
This has been the most helpful video I've come across describing and showing how to achieve good contrast and light/dark balance! Thank you so much.
Wow! This has finally made sense to me! I thought I was doing this, but now I see that I was making mine with not enough contrasts.
I am an experienced water colourist. Your give very good instruction.
Great explanation. I love the visual of what we as beginners do compare to the more advanced artist does. Extremely useful. Thank you.
The way you’re explaining what you’re doing throughout the entire video is so helpful. This is truly a beginner video. Thank you. 😊
Love your style! You are an excellent teacher - very clear explanations for someone like me, a beginner with a bit of painting exp. wanting to go to next level. Can’t wait to practice creating more effective highlights & shadows. I will definitely be checking out the rest of your channel/resources. Thank you!
That makes sense about the light coming in on the right and paint lighter colours to emphasise this on the pot and leaves. Definitely looks more natural and balanced too. Thank you Kristin for your time sharing 🌹
Thanks that really helps. I like to do architectural urban sketches and my trees always look awful. So yellow green at light source blending to blue green in shadow.
What a fabulous tutorial! Thank you for packing so much in to every minute. Excellent teaching style, easy to understand and follow.
Thank you so much! I appreciate the feedback
This is one of the most helpful videos I’ve seen! Love the side by side comparison! It makes a huge difference to see it this way. ❤ PS- congrats on over 100k views!!
Great explanation of basics to practice. Learning to paint is just that…learning! None of us are born knowing how to do this. If you consider yourself a newcomer…be patient and practice always!
Is it just me or is the left one still cute and just more like a doodle type of painting?
The left pot is fine unless you want to learn the relationship of light and shading to give it more depth…most importantly is to enjoy yourself and play ❤
I like the one on the left as well - it’s simple and more abstract. The right one is nice too, but it feels a bit like it’s trying too hard to be realistic while not quite getting there.
Yes I agree it is a doodle, but not a painting representative of a real object with depth absent
Yoochem i agree with you it’s jus odd
Of course.. all art can be celebrative
You are quite good teacher. Could not describe a techniquie in such detail. Thank you!
That was an excellent short explanation and example. Too often, channels make these things are too long and wordy. Thanks!
Thanx for very useful application tips, most of us know the contest provides the best definition of any subject in a graphic manner. The key as you explained is in how wet or dry the surface verses how wet or dry the brush. Thanks once again.
I love that you showed the differences by painting it next to each other.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight, and techniques. i just painted a house and fence with a tree and i realized it wasn’t quite right and now i know why. Thank you!!
Well I'm biting the bullet and bought my first watercolor beginning set!! Thank you for the lessons in this cute but amazing rendering of the two drawings.
Such a fantastic demo Kristin!🌟 love the side by side comparison, so helpful !thank you so much😀✨
Excellent explanation. Thank you so much. I have been painting for quite a while, but I always enjoy hearing and seeing such a clear demonstration. Well done!
Just found you and have subscribed. You have taught me a lot in just one, short video. You explain everything so well and in such a way that I will remember it which is quite an achievement as I have ME with “ brain fog”. I love watercolour but I never seem to get it right - it really looks like the first pot! I shall try this out and look forward to your next video. Thank you😊🎉
So glad I found you tonight...just what I needed to see, to learn. Thank you.
This was just outstanding! You were very clear with this and although I have done WC a bit, never has the issue of light source and contrast and how to leave white areas explained so very well. And yur color mixing! Just oustanding and thank you! Agree with another's comment - do more like this please!
Thanks for the tips. I somehow like both paintings equally. The right is more realistic and beautiful. But I actually like to look at the left more because it makes me feel happy inside. I don't know why..there's just something about it. (maybe because it's more childlike...?)
So very well explained ! Excellent tutorial ,clear and precise. Thank you soo much! You have a gift teaching and painting combined. ❤
I went to art school and this is the best watercolor explanation that I have ever seen
Thank you so much for showing us the difference in watercolor beginners and some experienced techniques. Was very easy to see once pointed out in demonstration. 🤗❤️👍🏽💯
I have a background in digital art and using mechanical pencils-it’s almost ingrained in me to paint like the left but I ironically use pencil similarly to watercolour. Sketching out the lights and going back in to darken things while leaving the brightest parts white. I genuinely didn’t realize how similar watercolour was to pencils until recently, and they’ve overtaken acrylics as my favourite kind of paint.
Your voice is wonderful to listen to, and you are concise about the points you are explaining. I used to attend an art university, and this is giving the kind of quality I would expect from instructors for studio classes. (I graduated HS in 2020 and started art uni in 2020-so everything was online lmao)
Thank you, Kristin! Incredible tutorial. Interesting how you don’t see the bad one as “bad” until the good one is painted right next to it!!! Love your channel so much😍😍😍
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I love this teaching on contrast and shadow. I use a different medium and it absolutely applies. Thank you!!!
Excellent tutorial. I learned more in your short video than an entire class I once took. Thank you for sharing your energy, water colour skills, teaching and communication skills. It really makes a difference ❤❤❤
Beautiful, love watching you using your gift xx I can’t draw or paint to save my life!😂.🙏
I think there are many beginners who still make this mistake. They don’t know where to learn this knowledge. Your channel should be seen by more people.
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Thank you for such great tips! I've been trying to figure out how to paint like the flower pot on the right side with the sun highlights. I appreciate your help in taking time to share this with us. Very much appreciated. I'm looking forward to more helpful tips on watercoloring painting.
Enjoyed your pots. Mine would look like on the left but I'm keeping your example cause it applies to many things with light and dark. Thank you,,from a semi beginner.
The best tutorial I’ve seen in awhile. I’ve now subscribed and look forward to learning more and taking my work up a notch!
thank you for sharing! i love watercolor but i still tend to be a bit heavy handed. this was very helpful.
There are also just two different and equally valid styles. I still like the one on the left. If being done intentionally it’s not a problem. But it’s good to have the skills to know the results and choose the style intentionally. The one on the left seems more overcast/low contrast and the one on the right has a bright lightsource like bright sunlight, etc.
New to your channel! Love love love love love! Ty!! ❤ I am making paper and playing with all of this. The paper has a great texture but acts a but different. Anyway, I have added marigold seeds to the paper and has the words, "plant love". I then watercolor a marigold ...this helps SO much!
A left pot is placed in a shade, I'd excuse. It's very helpful & easier to understand dos & don'ts in this way. To do would be that easy, but got ready for a new challenge. A nice footage, enjoyable. An amazing thing is painting & talking in parallel beautifully. It's often said our brain is not for doing two things at the same time. Thanks!
This was very helpful! Thank you. This is what I need to work on is shading and layering.
Thank you so much for these instructions. I now understand the light and darkness how to put them in. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
This makes me want to break out my watercolors right now and try it. Thanks for the great video and explanation
Go for it! 💕💕💕
I just found your videos, new subscriber. I love that you did a side by side comparison painting. It is much easier to see what I have been doing wrong when there is an example of how to do and how not to do. Please do more of these types of videos with instruction.
I have tried watercolors for years, off and on, and found them so difficult to master. I started with oil paints back in the 70"s then went to acrylic paints. It is quite different using watercolor and found it is less forgiving. I am still wanting to try though.
Excellent tutorial for us beginners, Kristen! Thank you.
I definitely do the left simple one which I still enjoy as a simple rendering but thanks so much for showing a way to elevate the watercolor! Even the whoa die including leaves is a good tip!😊
Vielen Dank für das sehr ausführliche Video mit der Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung. Es ist mir eine sehr große Hilfe. Ich male noch nicht so lange mit Aquarellfarben. Es macht auch Spaß Dir beim malen zuzuschauen. Bei Dir sieht alles so leicht aus. Viele Grüße aus München in Deutschland, Angela
Excellent tutorial Step by Step visuals. You explain tips verbally and visually so all is easy to comprehend!
I'm a beginner and the way you explain is so clear and makes so much sense. Thank you!
Incredibly helpful video. Very clear tutorial full of important tips and guidelines. I can't wait to practice!
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you liked it
I dedicate a small fabric piece, like an old napkin, as my "paper towel" instead. I love to see it getting the used look ❤ 😊
I use watercolors and acrylic paints so some have already great colors in them as they tell my journey 😂🌱
Thank you for this! I just said in my last video as well, that I am struggling still with the shadows and lights as I don't see them yet so clearly. So practise practice practice!
It is true, I approach it like crayons and then try to lighten it up. Starting with it lighter is amazing! Thank you!!
You are so welcome! I see the desire to paint it like crayons all the time, so you’re among friends haha
This was incredibly helpful. Many very useful tips for a beginner. Thank you!
Incredible!! You are such a fantastic teacher!! Thank you for explaining it so well, and for giving a contrasting example.❤😊 I feel like i should probably rewatch this every time i get out my watercolors😂
This is great. I haven’t been doing watercolor for long but I’ve always thought that mine looked “paint by numbers” esque. This is very helpful, thanks!
Excellent video, I subscribed to your channel. Very useful to see WHAT the differences are side by side, and HOW to fix the mistakes. Also, to me, very helpful to realise HOW MUCH TIME and GOING OVER this small painting it actually takes to get these lovely results! I tend to rush because other videos leave me always under the impression that the real artists paint everything so much quicker and I am way too slow. Thank you! ❤
I took my first collegiate art class after I retired from the military. It was an introduction to watercolor at midwestern state university in Wichita Falls Texas and Liz Ash was not only a jewel at watercolor but printing and composition as well. Being retired military I never finished the degree but what I gained from the time is immeasurable
These pots look so cute and adorable...And the techniques are so elaborated! Really helpful! 😀
love the video. having an art degree but haven't used watercolour in over 15 years I picked it up a few days ago and boy, was there a little learning curve
Ahhh, just the instruction and explanation that I was needing, thank you so much 🎉❤
Such a wonderful teacher, thank you!
This is video was very helpful! I saw another channel where they take a picture with an iPhone and turn it to black and white and high contrast paintings look good and low contrast paintings look totally flat
So glad I found you! You explained in a way that I understood! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your best practices for starting watercolor paintings. I definitely enjoyed seeing the comparison and how you build up the right picture. I'm sure with practice anyone could create their own "right picture" version :)
Thank you! I never thought I had the patience for watercolor in the past but recently decided to try it again and that got me really excited to learn it this time.
Oh my gosh this helped me tremendously, thank you so much 🙏 never stop doing what you are doing because this is beautiful ❤
Wow truly truly thank you for taking time out of your life to help teach people these wonderful techniques! And thank you for walking us through it this is great and I feel so inspired!! Thank you!!
This is a great tutorial. We all keep learning and I loved the result 🤍
I noticed in you playlists you have a leaf painting tutorial... but no-one makes tutorials about how to do those really loose bunches of leaves as in the left hand side of this video. So I was already impressed by the left hand side😊...but the right hand side was beautiful xx
Thank you so much for these helpful tips! I’ve only just begun to learn watercolor now that my sons are older and need me less. My youngest son is turning four and absolutely adores all sorts of color playing. At least some of my interest is to stay ahead of him in art and figure out how to teach these things to him later.
More videos like this one, please! Super helpful explanation and example. Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Great video! I'm just starting out with watercolor and my big challenge is the water/paint ratio. This gives me some perspective - very helpful.
Thank you, great tutorial lesson today!
Been pencil sketching for a couple years, and getting ready to delve into watercolor. I subcribed.
That was the most helpful watercolor video I have seen so far! Thanks for all the tips! You are very talented 👏
Wow I thought that the one on the left was good! Then you did the one on the right , mind blown. Thank you for sharing 🪴💐
While you gave many valuable tips in this video, i was amazed to see you paint the leaves of the plant, even in the left example - the shapes and the ease with which you put them down shows just how well you understand what you're doing!
Watercolors really are 'painting with light', or rather, not painting where the light is brightest.
I also ended up liking both example pots for their own merits :)
Thanks! I’ve been trying watercolor and still use it more like acrylic so thank you for this!
This made a lot of sense... although I used to use gouache so I could cheat and get away with whiting out areas that I wanted to emphasize... watercolor definitely has a different vibe where you need to think it out before you go straight in. I like tge look, but I find it difficult to work with tbh 😢
A minute and 33 seconds in and you’re already calling me out!😭😂 instant like!!
Haha sorry! Hope it helps 💕
I am learning so much from you and love your video and teaching style! 😊
I think if one is aiming for more realistic painting then yes, shadows,depth and form are important. I was taught still-life painting in school and I loved and excelled at the technique and I would absolutely paint my pot like the second one. However art is freedom. The first pot is beautiful in its simplicity. You paint your pot however you want to. There is not wrong or right way in art. As Bob Ross said ‘There are only happy mistakes.’.
exactly! the only thing i think when i see titles like hers (males do it too) i just think.....the entire point of art is to create from your heart. there is no true right and wrong way. even within the realm of realism, there is no one right way, as there are so many approaches.
I agree!
I know that the second one is the “correct” way to paint it, but I actually liked the first better
Totally agree!
Well most people want to learn how to paint more realistically though and as my former art teacher said, you have to be able to draw and paint pretty accurate to the eye and only then will you be able to make intentional choices like making it more abstract, using a surrealist color scheme, etc. This video is aimed at people who *unintentionally* paint the pot on the left.
Pls let's stop taking advices as if we don't understand it's purpose. There's always this self-defensive talk about the wrong ways when nobody said it's actually wrong.
This is exactly what I needed to see, painted a blue bird card today for a friend and I can see it looks too “flat” now. Thanks for the great tips!