Thinkwatercolour is your RU-vid assistant to help you to develop your watercolour skills. I’m Paul Webber and I’ve been painting all my life and my aim is to pass on years of experience and knowledge to help others to develop as artists.
The videos in the thinkwatercolour channel are made to show how to paint with watercolours for anyone who wants to develop their painting knowledge and skills.
The videos cover a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, seascapes, trees, skies, beech scenes, farm scenes, country walks and many more.
So, it you’re struggling with watercolours and want to see lots of techniques and tips, then you’ve come to the right place.
Whatever you enjoy painting, these videos are aimed at helping you to get the most out of your watercolour journey.
This video was incredibly helpful. By demonstrating what newer painter typically do and how to do it differently made all the difference. Thank you for walking us through this step by step. I felt like I was in an art class.
I think the tree trunk looks more natural when it's blended is because light is reflecting back and forth between the tree and the surrounding vegetation, so the colors really are shared.
It's a video to help beginners to understand the transparency and magic of watercolours, not a definitive technique. Blending wet in wet works better for more experienced painters. Video on that coming soon.
Great. Excellent. I was struggling with this. Thanks for showing it so clearly. May i request you to also show us the other method you mentioned? Where you do the shadows wet on wet. You mentioned it in this video. Thanks a ton.
@@thinkwatercolour I actually gave it a whirl... perhaps it is the paper I'm using (Zeta series Birn Album) but I could not achieve these beautiful washes to blend those colors as such. My version is very splotchy even though I followed this to a T... I think the paper could be the issue.. though I also think water control and the amount of paint is critical for watercoloring like this?
@@pesto12601 You have to have the first wash completely dry otherwise the second wash will disturb the first wash, especially if the second wash is too watery. The paper needs to be good quality 140lb /300g so that may be the problem too. Just keep practicing.
@@thinkwatercolour Thx.. I think although I waited for the wash to dry.. I didn't wait long enough. going to give it try #2 this afternoon and use my heat gun on the paper to speed up the drying.. hopefully that was it. If it still looks "muddy", I'll pull out my good paper and see if that makes a difference. Appreciate the advice!!
Another thing amateurs do is use brushes that are too small. It takes ten times as long to mix and move the paint 🤦🏻♀️ Using a detail brush to lay in color washes, rank: amateur ✅
That's Amazing! As a beginner myself that has been told that watercolor should be painted from light to dark, this just broke my mind! Thanks so much for the video!
I nearly always work from the lightest light to the darkest dark, especially with landscapes, and that's good advice. But it's not a rule. I try to give tips that will help people to understand how watercolours work. This tip for shadows is aimed at helping beginners to try new ways of painting and help them to develop skills. Glad you found it helpful. Good luck with your painting.
Many thanks, this video really helped me getting over the “ugly” stage of my paintings, and not rushing or giving up, but trusting the process! Also reminding me it’s supposed to be fun and mistakes aren’t the end of the world 🤣
What a fantastic video. As a beginner I have scrolled so many channels trying to understand watercolours, and by far this is the best 13 mins I’ve ever watched. Immediately subscribed, initially a bit intimidated by your thumbnails (beautiful paintings ) but on watching some, your such a good teacher! Actually exited again to get my paints out 🥰
The original lemon wasn’t blended which may have improved the first image but Inagree the complimentarybcolour makes a difference. Could you have layered in the shadow second and got the same result?
Ridiculous! Amazing! I just… I’m speechless! The result is incredible but it really is actually beginner-friendly. I’m so excited to try this out, thank you!
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Oh my word! I would never have thought painting the shadow colour first would be so effective. When you first painted the purple I thought how is that going to look remotely lemon like. Final result is pretty amazing. Thank you 😊
Really nice painting and video. I Wish you made them a little longer and shared some of your very strong technical and artistic knowledge so beginners like myself and pick up some pointers. Great work though. Keep it up.
Constructive criticism is always welcome. You're absolutely right and I will endeavour to do more real time videos and give more instruction and detail about the process. Glad you like the painting, by the way. Cheers
I think your channel would really grow if you perhaps took a little longer on your videos to explain things like paint consistency, wet in wet timings and brush stroke techniques. You are obviously a talented artist but your videos come across as a simple commentary of the colours you used. It almost feels like you cannot really be bothered to make the videos. Please don’t take offence, I just thought it may help to get an outsiders viewpoint This is an excellent painting, as always. 👍
No offence taken. Constructive criticism is always welcome. You're absolutely right, I have been rushing the last few videos. I have been thinking about this myself and I will endeavour to do more real time videos and give more instruction and detail about the process. Glad you like the painting, by the way. Stick with me and I'll try to be more helpful. Cheers
I think this worked really well - what a pleasant scene! I particularly like the harbour wall - just a simple wash, but with the lifting out and the verticals scraped out with the palette knife, it reads like there's so much going on - and as you say, without painting any detail. Thanks again for sharing your work!
Thanks for subscribing. Glad you like the videos. I try to post a new demonstration once a week or so, showing all sorts of different styles and techniques.
I love these wonderful lessons. I’m going to give this a go. It’s simple, beautiful and reminds me of our recent trip to the beach. That red flag was out most of the time! 😊. Thank you for your generosity!
Thanks, Paul. It was a good practice. Now I see that I should have left more light in my picture, unfortunately I tend to exaggerate with the colour intensity.
A really nice scene - so often we wonder what to paint and can't decide, so don't paint at all! This shows how using imagination and a principle of composition, can produce a very pleasing result.
I do think the rule of thirds is very helpful especially when you say, I have a blank sheet of paper what shall do? which happens a lot. Lovely painting too, thank you so much
I really like this - a moody composition, with the towering rocks and the wreck caught up it all! The right photograph can often give just the inspiration you need. Thanks for this demo.
Sky Arts Artist of the year It such founds me looking at the net. It gives a 10.000 £ wich could be very helpful. I can imagine, it's not Your style to step into a project like that. But may be I'm wrong ?! Defently, You have the know how to hold up there. What You think ? Regards, Carola
Comparing your art to others is not a good way to boost your self-confidence, so I don't enter competitions. There will always be someone better than you in the eyes of others. My advice is to accept who you are and follow your own course in life. Paint for yourself and not to please judges.
I like this new 'real-time demo' format, as it's good to see all stages of your painting process. Don't worry - you're not waffling - it's all extremely useful and valuable instruction! - Many thanks.
Today I took a fresh look at my painting and decided to redo it with some changes. I moved the distant trees to the left so that they were better visible, divided the middle part into two fields, creating a path to these trees. Have you ever, Paul, started a new painting right after finishing the previous one, because only at that moment you see that there is a better solution?
thanks for the good and practical example. At first glance, the subject of painting seems simple, but nevertheless it requires many different techniques.
