Thank you for showing us your multiple tries. It's helpful to realize that even YOU do things you don't necessarily love at first. 😉 This video makes me want to pull out my paints! (What I'm actually going to do is go to work, but maybe watching this again after work will re-spark my initiative.) Thank you!
i teach beginner watercolor in NYC, and can't wait to show this video to my students...95% of whom have cats. just excellent...fantastic technique...they'll love it!
The best cat I ever had was named Dusterina, she was born with no tail and literally had 8 claws on each paw!!! We found her when she was a kitten in our garage
Your watercolor cats are fantastic! I love that organic form from the watercolor flowing around. I agree, the first one is my favorite as well. Beautifully done!
Thank you very much for the wonderful demo. You are encouraging people to work with watercolor and let the water and color paint themselves. This is fun.
I love the colours in this and it's time I mixed more colours instead of relying on what comes out of the tube. This looks like a fun way to experiment!
The cat you are painting looks very such like a British Shorthair (originally introduced by the Romans to Britain after the conquest). Our cats are British Blues, which are really dark grey blending into silver. I can't tell you how much fun it's been trying out a few of your tutorials during the COVID-19 lockdown. Thanks you so much from London UK,
Boy! Didn't you make it look soooo easy! Wet on wet is a huge challenge for me. But I will try, try again. ( I love that you suggested 3 or 4 sketches to start!)
Wow! I'm really amazed by how well the Prang watercolors spread! Cool technique I will have to try since I have a black cat plus it's getting close to Halloween.
By this point you've either bought black, or learned other techniques; but for anyone else coming across this who was in the same boat: color mixing! If you take ultramarine blue and burnt sienna, for example, they combine into a neutral gray! I learned to use those for shadows instead of straight black, since black is so stark and can sometimes deaden a painting. But you can experiment with adding complementary colors together until you get one that's dark enough! It just requires a bit of research and experimentation so you don't just get mud.
I did this. It was awesome! I did mix my own black so the mild color shift as the color diffused was really cool. Must work really fast though or loose the whoosh effect of the paint. No phone so no Instagram. Really wanted to thank you so much. 👍👍😘
Even the sketch is a work of art LOL! I would love to see more of these cats...in different poses like a profile one. I tried it but couldn’t get it to spread out like you did
Looks like fun. I'm going to have to try it. Would be cool with mixing your own black. As the paint diffused it would leave some slight color shift. Thanks.
Je ne parle pas votre langue, c'est dommage. Mais je trouve votre travail remarquable et je vais m'en inspirer pour mes prochaines aquarelles. Merci. Thank you very much.
Amazing cats! Thank you . I’m trying myself but realize that perhaps your paper is not cold pressed but perhaps hot pressed? My paint does not diffuse as much as yours, despite the very wet paper and thick paint.
Great video, I want to know why the black didn't spill into the eyes and messed the yellow? was it because the area was dry? I'm new to watercolor, and your video is very helpful. Thank you.
Watercolor paint only wants to go where the water is. So if you let the eyes dry first, then just wet the paper around it, the black won't wanna flow over the dry bits. However, if you don't let the eyes dry first, everything will bleed together!
Is there a preference on whether or not to do this on cold vs hot pressed paper? And is there a way to tell from the tube if my paints are meant to flow more or not? O: I couldn't get the paint to bloom as dramatically so I kind of had to nudge it along
They are on my channel, I have a watercolor animal playlist you may like. Mr Otter inspired this channel. I found a picture of two baby sea otters and taped it to one of my college notebooks, and it honestly brought me so much joy every time I saw it, so when we chose the name for this channel and my business, I remembered him. I also loved Welcome Back Mr Kotter......on Nick at Night when I was young
@@MrOtterArtStudio I used to watch Welcome Back Kotter too. It was the first time I saw John Travolta and I thought he was such a bozo back then. And the theme song by John Sabastian who was also the lead singer in The Lovin' Spoonful at one time. Thank you for the answer to my question and all those memories.
I tried using black and water to make highlights and shadows on a black horse (more water=lighter area) but because I’m using gouache, the second horse in the image (who is brown) looks waaaaayyyy more opaque and the two subjects don’t fit together in the piece at all. How can I make the black horse more opaque without adding white for highlights? It doesn’t look right when I add white :/ it looks too..... fake gray.
