Hope you enjoy this one guys. School of Watercolour schoolofwatercolour.co.uk/ Online Mini-course on painting human figure www.tomshepherdart.com/painting-the-figure-in-watercolour
Tom, you are the 'wild one of watercolour'. As tricky as this medium is, watching you work makes me realise I need to carve out time and persevere with this medium to at least give watercolour a chance... even if mine end up being underpaintings for pastels.
Ahh thank you...yes, stick at!!:) like the idea of watercolour as under painting for pastel too...I’ve seen couple of artist uses pastel over watercolour for finishing touches etc, looks great!!
Hello from Canada Tom! I have been watching your videos for a long time and always admired your deft hand, exciting compositions and your awesome laid-back teaching style. Just went through your Watercolour Bites series. Wish you had been my university prof! All those lessons and basics from many years ago came together again because of your simple yet complete mini tutorials. What a treasure for new artists, and a reminder for those of us who are getting a little sloppy and wondering why paintings are just not quite right. Thank you so very much for making this available! ❤
As always, thanks ever so much for sharing your talents with us! We are all on a quest to find our style, which will likely evolve over time. If we all followed the advice of famous artists to the letter, all of our paintings would look the same. So many artists glaze frequently. For myself, it is the result of not having a clear enough plan from the outset, and timidity in the initial stages. This leads to most of my paintings being quite overworked. The first workshop I too was with Tony Couch (who studied under Ed Whitney and mentioned him frequently). He, too, felt that one should just "paint it as dark as you want the first time" and avoid layers. Whitney used to stand out in the hallway and yell in the door, "Paint darker!", knowing it was good advice for most of the class. Tony also stressed the importance of value and design, stating color was the least important thing. Your technique of using multiple colors for animal underpaintings reminds me of the techniques used in "Painting Wildlife in Watercolor, by Peggy MacNamara. Light washes that are more focused on value rather than color and form the foundation of the paintings. She uses more layers and glazes, which I have a tendency to muddy up, due to my lack of patience. Your work is brighter and bolder.
Thank you very much for this excellent demonstration. Loved watching how you manipulated the colors, lights, and darks. Thank you from hot Arizona here in the U.S.!
Ahh thank you...ha it can feel strange, but it’s those tonal values which hold it all together :) they’re kind of like the safety net when going a bit crazy with colour ;)
Ahh thank you so much!! Overworking is so easily done...all though I often think that then look at it again a week or so later and think it’s not so bad!!;)
This blew my mind actually. I have always wanted to hear exactly the break down of using multiple colours that aren’t true to the subject but still keeping the integrity of the image. ( For any medium really ) I love colour so this is exactly what I needed. The theory of shapes made so much sense. I am brand new to watercolour and trying to loosen up….this has helped so much!!!!!!! Thanks so much...following for more !
Wow I love how you used those pops of colors for the background & under painting. Definitely a great fun loose painting. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, progress, & process with us! 🥰
I think is Canson paper, fairly certain it’s 100% cotton but it’s not overly special...behaviours Stengel at times, but that can be fun..especially when working like this.:)
Hi again from New Zealand. Great tips and skills, another fabulous painting. Thanks, Tom. In essence, then, we could use any colour on this, we dont need to copy yours? The tone is the important aspect and the shapes of light and dark? :)
I watch a lot of artists on you tube. You work process flows so intuitively. Something that I don't believe can be taught, just God given talent. Maybe the process but not the feel.
