Oh my god this is making so much more sense now. I’ve been really heavy handed with my dark colors when I should have been more focused on opacity. This is brilliant thank you so much for this video!
It's such a beautiful stage of a women's life that I can never imagine or experience. Good luck with the painting, and I wish the person who is pregnant a wonderful pregnancy! :)
@@Cafewatercolor thank you! I agree completely, there is something divine about it. I started following you on Instagram, I'll try and message you the painting once I finish.
Eric, "Transparency is everything" I'm looking at my paintings and seeing where I have gone wrong. Pure gold, thank you. Brilliant video and thank you for sharing. Love to you and your family.
This tutorial was fabulous, however i was more inspired by how he described his wife and the beauty of pregnancy. I long to find someone who looks at me that way
very nice points to make, simple mixing, and transparency with water. I also think it helps to watch the locations on the face where you apply and areas you don't. Thank you.
hi Eric... just wanna say a big thank you for your awesome videos. Your explanations on water coloring principles and techniques are very clear and easy to understand. So glad I came across your videos. Thanks again :)
Would you give a substitute for cobalt turquoise please? PB 36 in Daniel Smith. No one else has the same color code numbers. Winsor & Newton cobalt turquoise lists PB28 & PB 36. Grumbacher Academy list Magnesium Green as PB 36 and it appears it may be more green than the cobalt turquoise in your palette for skin tones. By the way, this is May 2022!!!
@@Cafewatercolor I have several colors already. I would like to buy Carmine, Cadmium red hue, Cadmium orange hue but the names are different in Schmincke ! Is Permanent carmine the as Carmine ? I don't find the "hue" in cadmium orange and red ! Is it very important ? I have Cadmium free orange from W&N at home...is it ok ?
@@Maya.6868 Just give it a try. I've not used exactly the same colors neither and the results are good. I think the color tones and the technique is more important than the colors.
I literally got teary-eyed when he described painting Pregnancy. So much respect for this man. I can feel his love for his wife. I've learned lot as well. Thank you!
Thank you very much! This was the most helpful video on skin tones and how to paint skin I have seen. Plus your commentary was awesome. I appreciate your comments on pregnancy paintings as well. Congratulations on a spectacular painting, teaching video and your little one.
I will never tire of thanking you. Your videos are more than watercolor classes, they are professional mentoring. Here in the city of Maracay, Venezuela where I live there is no place to learn to paint watercolor. That is the reason why I feel so pleased with you. I can only wish that everything you have taught to me becomes wealth, health and happiness for you.
Outstanding! I thanked God i stumble to this video. I'm a beginner watercolor painter and I have always been wanting to learn portraits. Seeing this pregnacy photo makes me wanna paint my pregnant photo and gift it to my partner on Father's day as I knew he loves and looks at me and our pregnancy journey the way you do with your wife. Sending love to your art and your family.
Such a beautiful painting of your wife. Thank you for the excellent way that you explain your painting process. I love your videos, your paintings are like a breath of fresh air!
I really enjoyed this video. Your wife is beautiful and you represented her special time so well. By this time your little one is 3 years old!! How time flies.
Such good information, what a wonderful way to show your wife you treasure her💕 Pregnancy is a time when many women don’t feel beautiful but your painting truly captures that she is.
Hi Eric ,beautiful painting of your wife,you use many opaque pigments,can you explain how this works,I thought for transparent look ,I would need transparent pigments?
For me if you add enough water, it’ll be transparent regardless the color. The cadmium colors are all semi-opaque, so they still have transparency them. I never really go very technical about this. I don’t remember what color is opaque and what color is not. All I know is more water makes it more transparent 🙂
This painting is beautiful! I've been an artist for many years but have always shied away from watercolor. I took the leap to watercolor only a couple weeks ago and am quickly falling in love with it. I am now thinking of doing my first watercolor portrait and I'm so glad I watched your video first. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - you do wonderful work!
Superb teaching as usual. Please keep repeating ‘shadow is absence of light, no need to add dark, just more layers’ then it might sink in! Thank you yet again.
Your way of teaching, explaining and demonstrating is over the top helpful. I have to take notes its so good. This hasn’t happened in a long time and I watch a lot of art RU-vid videos. I am amazed. Your love and respect for your wife is also over the top refreshing, almost unheard of, really ever. In this way, you are making a huge difference in peoples lives. I am excited to learn this material.
I have to say, your explanation was clearer than any of my art lecturers. I wish I found your channel years ago when I was still in art school; it would have made a world of a difference for me! Thank you for your videos!
Fantastic demo! I enjoyed hearing your love for your wife and family as you described your perspective on pregnancy. And you helped demystify watercolor skin tones for me. Thank you.
😊You're inspiring; Thank you so much, it helps me with my water colors,,techniques, and gives me hope. I'll keep on working on it . Thanks 😊 Love your work,, take care,stay safe and be careful
This is hands down the most helpful video for painting watercolour portraits I've come across. Multiple astutely narrated examples, and then a complete start-to-finish demo. I have to see your other videos. You are *such* a good teacher! Thank you!
Gracias por los graph simultáneos que pones, yo no me pierdo conceptos importantes, ya que hablas clarísimo pero se me pierden a veces “few words”… thanks a lot !!!
I love your video! It is so helpful & enlightening to watch the successive layers going into a painting to understand how it all comes together. This is the best watercolor video I’ve seen. Thank you so much for the knowledge & love you’ve shared in putting this together❣️
Why is there never a tutorial with basic cheap paint? Am already depressed that i cannot even paint and its worst that tutorials don't help. What are all those colors? I don't have those things
very nice walk through, it's a mix of a la prima and glazing. I found a technique, where skin tone is obtained from separate glazes, but I think nailing down your base color in advance gives more control ... Thank you.
Beautifully done. and a beautiful subject!. So much to learn every day! Thank you. You use a lot of opaques...which I am wary to use....but I'll give it a try, soon.
Thank you so much Eric,for fabulous lessons in skin tones...The pencil you’re using,is it an Rapidiograph? Or an lead refill pencil? Thank you in advance.🇨🇦
Thank you Eric , learned a lot about transparency! And what a beautiful soft painting , there is always a softness and warmth around a pregnant woman . I Wanna ask you , what means the frase “ hue” behind a color name ? I”ll hope you understand , English is not my language.
Tiny Me hue is mostly for Cadmium colors. Traditional cadmium colors are very toxic, so they came up with formula that’s not toxic but offers the same color. So when it says Cadmium Red Hue, it means that the color looks like traditional Cadmium Red but it’s not as toxic.
