A loose approach to painting HONEY BEES 

Beautiful bees 🐝

Lovely! ❤️🐝🐝🐝

Cotman is a decent brand of WC. If they dry out in the tube's, just split the metal tube and wet it like you wet a watercolor cake in the pan, use it right out of the tube! There's no waste since they are made to be used that way too. Absolutely gorgeous artwork and I love the papers you made too! ❤

I LOVE this! Bees are one of my favorites to paint, and drawing them isn’t something I’ve done much, so now I will. Thank you!

Super, j’❤les abeilles et leur liberté et j’❤vos aquarelles et votre liberté.

Another fun and informative video Michele, thank you for sharing! 🦋

I love you relaxed, have fun approach! Art should be a fun experiment!❤

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Hi Michele- these are bee…utiful !tfs 🐝🐝🐝👵🏻🎨🤗👍

I’m currently learning watercolour, self taught and I can’t thank you enough for this lesson. Very helpful indeed. ❤

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Thanks for sharing. I was so happy to see this. I find my work is so tight, and I will really enjoy sitting and practising with this to loosen up a little. 😊

So so inspireated. Love your way of loose.👍🏻👏🏻😄📘

Thanks Diane much, I found your video sooooo inspiring! I want to go have a play!

Love these!!! I will try it! TFS Austin TX USA

If you can get a bit of water into those dryed up tube, they will soften, if not just cut the tubes and save the chunks and wet each one as you use them. really like your channel.

Gorgeous collers😍🙏🍀🏵️🌸🌺

Love this and will definitely have a go at some Bees!

I'm in love with your painting!

What pretty bee's

Love your teaching style. You're so laid back it takes the stress out of creating. And that is so good. I'm sure you already know this, but I thought I'd just suggest for others.... you can cut your tubes open with a razor blade and just break off some of the dried watercolor put it n your pallet and add water and you're good to go. When in college I didn't have a budget at all and used some 20 year old grumbacher watercolor someone had given me. It worked just fine. That's the wonder of watercolor pigments.

I wish i could give you more than one thumbs up!

Absolutely love them❤

If you can peel the tubes off the dried paint you can use still use it. Most pallettes of watercolour are dried blocks of the wet stuff anyway 😊

Great thrift store find!

Michele, this is so cool! I was so happy when I saw this tutorial from you. I love bees and the fact that you shared this loose sketchy approach to creating while making it look so easy, makes me want to try this, and I will. The colors are lovely. What a great find at your thrift store. I just love thrift shopping. You know what they say.....one person's junk is another person's treasure :) Thanks for talking about watercolor ground. I have some and really enjoy using for paper that needs a bit more absorbency to handle the watercolor. It's a busy day here so I had to hurry through this video, but I'll be watching this video again and sketching and painting along with you. Thank you for this very cool video!

Great video. BTW, the watercolor paper is Fab- Ri- An' - O

Cut the bottom off your watercolor tubes that are dry, then cut from the bottom up to the lid and carefully peel them open creating a T shape. I leave them in the tube, unless I have an empty palette to put them in. That gives you a pan of watercolor paint that you can rewet endlessly. I did this to some of my Dad's dried tubes that I'm sure were 50 years old, and they were fine, except some of the earthy browns. Good luck, and happy painting!

Wonderful as always, thankyou Michele🐝

Glad to see another quickie sketch and watercolour tutorial of bees which i will try for my latest bee journal. Here in the uk I have two hives of honey bees in the wall cavity on one side of our house near our pond. They are so busy this time of year collecting pollen and in 30 years here we have only had four accidental stings from them. We love them.

I just found your channel, I love bee’s, I hope you do more of them… I’m going to be binge watching, I just subscribed.

you are amazong at your drawing ,thank you

Your bees are EXCELLENT, I love them & adore what you did with them❣️❣️❣️🐝🐝🐝🐝

Yes, honey bees, thank you!!! Lovely!! I use 3-IN-1 glue that works.

😮 wow that is really nice ❤❤❤ thank you

More landscapes please. I like the bees, but I’m allergic!

This was the best bee tutorial ever. Thank you so much!🥰

Love bees and you draw very good. Just started watercolouring and love it. Thank you.

Lovely bees! Very inspiring. Try using ordinary matt emulsion paint - the kind you paint indoor walls with instead of watercolour ground that is expensive. I have had great success with that cheap paint on paper, stones, wood, plastic as a base for watercolours.

Thank you for these super helpful videos!!❤

What a great thrift store find. Your work is so enjoyable to watch - so creatively talented. TY for sharing.

I love your loose, scribble style ❤

Thank you for breaking this down so clearly. Trying to draw along. 😊

Brilliant video, thank you. I have heard somewhere that if you put the tubes of dry watercolour paint in a bowl of hot water they will sometimes soften - leave the screw tops on. Thanks for your knowledge. Sue.

Gorgeous. I absolutely love the loose bees.

They look so realistic. Really great. I heard, that you can use wallpaper glue as watercolor ground, haven't tryed it, jet. I am really going to make a postcard for my grandma with bees on it. Thank you.

Hello from Sweden, so wonderful that you did this, I love the bumblebees you painted. You have the very good watercolor paint cotman, they are very good and colorful. Unfortunately I'm completely exhausted after my computer caput, I've fixed it for 2 days, but I'm still working on it ... Hugs from tess ❤❤❤

That looks like Canson illustration board. Great stuff for graphite drawings as well! Never thought to try watercolor on it, gonna give it a go! Thanks for the great ideas as always😊

Love your carefree, loose drawings and watercolour painting skills.

Beautiful, love your work. ❤

I'm totally unable to do the loose and sketchy style. I want to! I love it! But I don't know when to stop! I'm allergic to white spots and puddles! I'm an oil paint, realistic style, portait painter, so the switch I'm trying to make at the moment to watercolor is really painful 😆 Thank you for this!

Pastels are a lot of fun as I love using them. I love the bubble Bees as they are so fluffy and so important to our environment. I do a little bit of watercolour but I prefer acrylics personally. Lovely work 😊❤

Love watching you draw and paint! Thank you for the inspiration and the reminder to stay loose in the painting.

Hi, my daughter keeps bees, so I like to water colour bees with all the pollen on their legs. They are very interesting.

You can cut the bottom of the tubs to get at the dry pigment to use

Have you tried using a hairdryer? They work well when used carefully.

You inspired me to try watercolor again! Thank you Michele, you are amazing! Hugs

Hi Michelle, these are lovely! I love bees. Unfortunately, I’m not seeing any in my garden and not looking forward to fertilizing my cucumbers by hand. That’s a great price. Thank you for sharing. Hugs, Julie 🥰

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Hi Michelle this is so cool. I am so in trouble since I started to follow your drawings and drawing along. I can't pick up my pen to write I just doodle. And my work requires a lot of writing.......... Thank you so much for your wonderful training and sharing your wonderful talent. 😎

Btw u night want to try a rotring isograph technical pen or a fountain pen with some carbon black or noodles black ink. Their refillable, can change nib sizes out for line variety and so much better n every way than the microns. No waste and cheaper n the long run because they last forever!

So nice! I’ve been waiting for this one😊. Have you watched Liz Chaderton? She paints watercolor on plain paper as well as watercolor. She’s fun to watch and has great tips for the business side of things as well as sketching, painting and one of my favorites is building a fold out pleinair book.

Fantastic video as always! I would love to see you produce a video on how to draw the bees using procreate. Yours look so real.

These are amazing! Thank you for the tips, I am so scared of using watercolours and really need to just step in and try... Thank you so much for sharing, take care and have a wonderful weekend x

Top tip if the paint has dried in the tube cut open at the bottom wiggle your wet brush in there so it’s like a pan of paint when you’re finished just fold up the ‘new’ end til next time

The Cotman dried up paints? Open the end and scoop out color or pour in distilled water! I reawaken paints I score just that way. Those Cadmium colors are real and are “supposedly” more lightfast than new Cadmium hues.

Love this and I love bees! This is so pretty! Your Procreate bees are great too - they look so real! Have you ever tried gouache? it's like acrylic and watercolor together. I got some and I like it but haven't played too much with it. I love how matte and soft it is.

With Cotman paints that are dry you can use aa snap off utility knife to spilt tube open

Just cut the tubes open in half and use a wet brush to get out the dry paint as you use it.

Those soft pastels are very expensive, good score,use right over or under watercolor.

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This one was hard for me. Will keep at it though.

What are you using for a paint palette ?

If you take an exact knife you can split the container and use the paints dry. Just rewet

Head, thorax, abdomen. 😉

Nice. However, these are not honeybees. You are making yellow jackets, a type of wasp. My father in law was a beekeeper for over thirty years, and there is a difference. However, if you like yellow jackets, have at it. Thanks for sharing.

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