WATERCOLOUR VIDEOS FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS!!!
I strongly believe that there is a child in each of us, who would love playing with colours.
I am a self taught watercolor artist , teaching watercolour painting to watercolour aspirants. I prefer preparing tutorial videos showing the process of simplification for photographs and painting from imagination so that we end up doing representation the subject in my own way.
As I learnt lot from RU-vid, its my target to share my knowledge back on youtube by creating watercolors step by step, to encourage, inspire and guide viewers interested in learning watercolour.
Excellent tutorial and I have been trying to paint similar scene. I am enjoying the whole process and having fun. Thanks a lot for posting and encouraging us to get better.
AS always, this video too was very useful, entertaining, and informative. I don't think you speak too much, and I like the way you express yourself. I also like the fact that you constantly reassure the viewer that it is okay to make mistakes, as long as you learn from them. As for preferences: I like both. But between the two I think street scenes are more challenging to put together in a convincing manner. I like the way you are training the viewer, through your videos, to create their scenes rather than copy them from a reference. But, perhaps once in a while, you could start with a reference photo, and show the viewer how to draw inspiration from the photo, retain some features and add elements or recompose the elements to create a totally different and original scene. Thank you for sharing such wonderful demos.
Thank you very much Sir! Your words encourage me. I will make a note of your point - I will plan videos on simplifying photographs while creating streetscapes & landscapes.🙏😊
Good vids. Thumbs up. I recommend using the horizontal view, rather than the vertical view, as it will fill the RU-vid video window and make for better viewing.
Your feedback is very encouraging! Happy that you find it helpful. Please do practice and share if you have any further feedback. Thank you very much 🙏
so fun and helful to free from fear if failing to be humble and make progres with lot of practice; Thanks Vanidas to i guide us. THANKS YOU VERY MUCH. AXELLE
So happy to hear your words! Yes, you are right, it frees from the fear of failing as we are just making figures. Thank you very much for your feedback.
I'm so thrilled to see the continuation of the alphabet people!!! Thanks to your series, I'm much more confident in adding people into my paintings! Thank you!
Your words make me so happy & motivated! Thank you very much. You may consider sharing it with your artist groups so that it reaches to wider audience who may find it useful.😊
The whites that I use are watercolour whites (Chinese White shade). I pick the colour directly from the tube and apply without diluting it. The paper should be dry when we do this. Thanks for watching the video. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.
THANK YOUR DEAR vANIDAS./LONG TIME NO PRACTICE FROM YOUR WONDERFUL TUTORIAL BECAUSE FROM LIFE's Unhappy event;but energy coming back and your advice helping a lot; Im starting again; Let's keep on.: axelle
While doing water colour paintings, one is supposed not to use white colour as per grammer of art so far I know, one is supposed to leave white or blank spaces for the purpose. Don't teach wrong ways.
Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate your intention. I know conventionally we should leave paper whites for highlights in watercolours. However, precisely planning the white areas in advance is not always possible unless you have a precise drawing made upfront. When we go for loose drawing and taking the freedom of dynamic decisions as we paint, leaving paper white is not an option most of the times. This example is such an approach where I have attempted loosening up in the drawing and taking dynamic decision as I paint. I have seen many established and master watercolour artist’s works where they used whites judiciously. Examples, you may check the works of renowned watercolorists of today Joseph Zbukvic & Alvaro castegnet. I recollect reading somewhere that up to 10% of opaque colours are allowed for galleries and standard watercolour competition entries and are treated as trasparent watercolors. I think the option of using a limited quantity of opaque colours give us a lot of freedom to go for bold washes. I feel it is too confining to compromise on quick and bold washes to precisely leave some narrow and precise paper whites. I feel it is upto the artist to decide if they want to stick to conventions or take the freedom of breaking it to get what they are looking for. Thanks again for your feedback. 🙏
