Thanks for watching! 🌟 In this video, I share my progress in painting kookaburras over 12 years. What’s your favourite subject to paint? Let me know in the comments! Don’t forget to check out my Skillshare classes and blog for more tutorials and tips. 🎨✨
"Patience, practice and passion" are what we all need to apply. No matter what is your artistic expression in whatever medium, you must continue your journey. I left art behind several decades ago after being a "working artist" for 35 years. I am just now returning to my art in my Senior years. The difference is that I have a lot of "failed" projects, but I am learning and relearning. Yet I also have a few pieces that I really like and they were the most experimental, interesting.
Hi Louise, how cute are the Kookaburras! All your paintings are so lovely, but I have to say that the last one is beautiful! ❤I love how you painted the beak! Thank you dear Louise for sharing how you persisted in repainting the Kookaburra. It is so cute! Helene
This was such a great lesson on being more loose with a painting, which I struggle with the details of a paintings on a regular basis. Thank you very much! Very cute on showing your out takes. Love how it shows the little stresses of a relationship. Paint on!!!
Louise this video has been a huge help for me in seeing how much I am improving in my own Art journey. While I am still somewhat in the middle years of where you were in yours, I have just realized that I am making improvements ❤ along the way & that there’s so much more to learn like it’s okay to not know everything to be a successful artist. I have got to be more critical of my own work, work on not being afraid of color mixing, just experimenting, & learning about hard, soft, & lost edges. I also need to try to repaint some subjects (old paintings) again. While I love painting details & realistic more than abstract, I can still paint realistically without having to paint all of the tiny details & loosely. Thanks for sharing this wonderful inspirational & informative video! Enjoy your weekend! 🫶🏻
I do learn so much watching you paint; listening to your voiceovers. Your sensitivity to the paper, pigment, water, brush, reference image, process - guides on so many levels. I remain yet a watercolor neophyte, juggling reality of outcome with wishes wondrously to see otherwise. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful video, Louise. It is so helpful to see how you are still learning and developing your watercolour skills especially as I have always loved your paintings. It is encouraging to those of us who are earlier in our watercolour journey.
I love how you are loosening up in your painting. I love the eye detail. But I am so happy to see that the rest of the bird is more suggestive than detailed. It is exquisite!
thank you Louise! I'm in my 3rd year of watercolour, I'll keep my hope up that one day I'll look back at my paintings and experiment the joy of great progress.
I love the comparisons between older and recent work. The older work is lovely but the more recent has an edge that was missing earlier. I’ve been painting in watercolor for a few years and have compared earlier work to now. I can see the improvement and will keep working to progress. Your work is an inspiration to me! Thank you for sharing talents! ❤
Thank you, Louise. I loved watching you paint and it was a big help to me. Birds are my favorite subject and I’ve just sketched out your Patreon kookaburra.
A great examples video Louise. I am very new to watercolour and I continue to overwork and labour on the details, I use coloured pencils and pastels for pet portraits so I am programmed to aim for the details. I love the effects of the wet on wet and the granulation patterns from the water colours. So thank you Louise for your advice. I will keep practicing. Great painting of the Kookaburra.
Beautiful Louise, thank you for this video. It's what I've been waiting for. Thanks for your commentary, as it helps, especially with the colour choices.
Really enjoyed seeing how your skills changed/improved over the years. Really shows us how important lost edges are and that it's best not to fuss too much. It was clear to see how more confident your brush strokes are now.
I'm just beginning watercolour painting - I find your videos so interesting and inspiring. I learn from each video I watch and also love the "bloopers" at the end. Thankyou for all your time and experience you share.
Sorry to tell you that, but I loved ALL of your birds. I’m sure that the results will always be fantastic, no matter what you are learning or trying. Beautiful Art.
its great seeing how you have improved from putting in the work 😀 seems to be the topic of the week around my artist acquaintances, that it takes time and 'bad' art to get where you want to be skill wise with art 🙂🙃
Vos aquarelles chère Louise sont remarquables, j'aime beaucoup votre style et les thèmes de vos dessins. Et merci de nous montrer que tourner une vidéo n'est pas simple avec les différentes prises de vues comiques à la fin 😅😅😁👍
Thank you Monique. There's no technical reason why I used hot press. I have many full sheets of it left over from my licensing days and I need to use it up because it's nearly ten years since I bought it.
