FINALLY I have found someone who can both paint and teach really well. What a wonderful combination 😍 thank you so much. In a few videos already learning so much more than in months of using other platforms.
Excellent tutorial (as always). Your “beauty tip” @32:29 was especially informative! I’ve not seen/heard anyone else so clearly demonstrate the risks associated with using ‘hair driers’ on watercolor paint/paper. Usually it’s just ‘-use a hair dryer to dry out the wet paint faster-‘. Sometimes they add ‘-be careful not to get it too hot-‘ or ‘-don’t let it move the paint around-‘. But never a clear demonstration with an explanation like yours. Your great skill at and knowledge of watercolour while it’s happening on the paper which you can communicate so clearly is (I think) why many of us return often to your videos. You are teaching 'foundational knowledge' not just 'do this, do that' without crucial details of why/how. Kudos to the videographer and beware of the fence posts!! { ;= )
Hi Oliver, I am a big fan of you. They way you teach and explain is amazing. This video on clouds is very very helpful. I really like your style of watercolor paintings. In thousands of paintings, I can easily recognize your style which is unique, very genuine and just AMAZING!!!
I tried no.2 and all in all it went okay. Better than expected. Needs practice as you say. But solid advice, well explained. One of the best (if not the best) watercolour channels on RU-vid. Thanks Oliver 👍
Magnificent tutorial. Thank you! Your mellow, reassuring presentation is so encouraging. My dog likes your soothing voice too. She’s in my lap whilst I watch -every time😂
Great skies detail and no tissues used to blot out clouds. The results are really lovely. Learnt a lot more from you today about mixing paint for warm and cool - well, a bit more understanding of the technique, because you always indicate the warm/cool transition in your tutorials. 😊
I appreciate how you share the colors used and explain why you use those colors. I have more understanding of how warm and cool colors move things forward or back. Every little detail you use is explained and taught as to why that technique is used. Thank you so much for your great teaching of every detail, including the problems involved with using a hair dryer. I love how you share so many wonderful tips.
I am so grateful you are giving skies a lot of coverage, I am practising them a lot at present. I recall a very good friend and advisor on photography many years ago, who simply reminded me `you will have a lot of waste paper in your bin to start with, but it will reduce` I used to expect a good painting every time, when I first started watching your channel ;)
You are a fabulous generous teacher! I love the way I am building skills through your videos. I have just switched to 300lb paper and am having a brief coronary. It’s so thirsty it’s leaving brush strokes! Help🤪
You are masterful at your craft. I have to confess, I didn't watch it through yet. I needed a soothing and calm voice as I was scrolling through tutorials to watch. I am down with a virus and was sleep deprived and at my wits end. When I saw this one, I knew yours was just the ticket. And it worked. Ahhh swweet sleep. So now I will settle in an watch it all. You should include ASMR in your portfolio of gifts to share. Your approach, technique, teaching style and soothing manner is one of a kind! Thank you for taking the time to make such a positive impact.
Oliver, Thank you for this detailed tutorial on how to paint beautiful summer skies using three different techniques. I do plan to have a go at all three. I look forward to your video on painting skies at sunrise and sunset...as I particularly love the combination of colors that you have indicated you use to paint these skies.
You, sir, is a true master! Wonderful paintings and wonderful teaching! You helped me to understand watercolor so much more then my university teachers! Still a long road ahead, but im more and more confident and actually enjoying the process. Thank you so much! Keep up a good work and good luck!
Thank you Oliver. This tutorial is again full of useful informations and very clear explanations Last week I did for the second time all the examples of your previous Skye tutorials. Very Interesting to see how repeating allows us to improve. Now I can’t wait to try your summer skies.
An i have to put this on the RU-vid you or so good at not saying you need to use expensive materials.An iam on RU-vid watercolor all the time an you or the only artist that has not talked about expensive material.❤
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your skies and clouds looked so fresh and real. I will plan, prepare and practice your techniques. Blotting out skies with tissues never seemed quite right to me. ✨🎨
Brilliant! I am always amazed to watch your process. In the beginning, if you’re not used to this style of painting, it looks a bit scary and chaotic. But the methodical way you approach the painting as a whole really creates a cohesive feeling. Your clouds ⛅️!!! Mind you, I was looking forward to more beauty tips 😉 - re blow dryer
Thanks for all your tips. They're very helpful. Can you please do a tutorial on stones, rocks, cliffside, and other similar rocky formations? Thanks so much.
I cant speak English so well but I learn a lot about watercolor painting. You are so pedagogic and I learn English too. I wonder about cadmium colors are they not negativ to nature? What can I use insted? And I think your filosofi of what watercolor painting means are so right! Any one can feel the same and cant paint whit the same feeling. I use to copy what you do must say but now I going to start my own travel across watercolor so thanks. Your videos are amazing!
Have you done, or could you DO a video explaining warm and cool colors and when and how to use them effectively. I know what the warm and cool colors ARE, but I'm not sure on the theory on using them properly. Loved the video one the skies. I've had trouble with them but am getting better and this video really helped! Thanks! David, WV, USA
I really appreciate your videos and the time you take to share your years of experience. Can I request a tour of your studio video at some point? I am always curious as to peoples working environment.
Thanks for yet another educational video, Oliver. I have a question about preserving the painting after it has been completed. Do you use watercolour varnish, like Daler Rowney's? Or do you frame it as it is? Or do you use some other method? Again, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
I’m sure you are advised to add music during more quiet periods. However, I watch, relaxed in my easy chair. When the music starts, my eyelids drift closed. Z.z.z.z.z. Content is very good.
Thanks so much for this video as I am learning heaps from it. However, I am confused! I thought you were adding raw sienna to the blue cad red mix in order to make shadows. I thought adding raw sienna would be warming it up and when you were adding less sienna that was for the cooler bottom clouds. But then almost 22 minutes in you say you are adding raw sienna to cool the sky down....?? You are confusing this old lady!
Raw sienna "cool" the blue down? I always new that adding a warmer colour will warm a cold colour... Am I wrong? Could you explain, please? your skies look incredible fresh and beautiful, thank you so much for helping us to understand this very difficult material.
Blue is colder than RS - you're correct. However, any blue from cobalt (neutral) towards ultramarine is what I describe as a warm blue (ie it has red in it.) By adding RS, an earthy yellow, it neutralises the blue, pulling it towards the green side of the blues. If you look at the colour wheel, you'll see the blue moving away from the red/purple side of the chart and toward the cooler green/yellow side. Clearly the colour is still cooler relative to what is being added (RS) but it is not warming up the original colour (blue) - purple/red/orange would be needed to achieve that. One thing to note....my RS by Daler Rowney is an unusual colour, being more yellow than many other brands' RS, so it does have the effect of cooling the blue. Good question - thanks for posting it.
@@oliverpyle-ourlandscape4442 I see, I did not consider ultramarine as a warm blue, I did not know it has red in it. The neutralizer effect of RS pushes it to the cooler side of the wheel (greens) though RS is warm by itself. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain!!
Not necessarily, unless you feel that you are doing it to correct/overpaint a colour that you weren't happy with. Glazing is a good way of adding variety to larger areas in a painting.
