An excellent tutorial. I think what I’ve been doing wrong, is not limiting my palette, and not rewetting the sky before dropping in new colours. I loved the candle wax trick for sparkles on the water, too.
Michele- your videos have been such a blessing to me. I love to do art. Colored pencil mostly, I have not explored a lot in watercolor. It has been so hard to get motivated to create but u are truly helping me. Thanks so much. Bille
Thank you for making this video I watch about 5 videos thru out the day, so I'm doing this so i can paint basic techniques when i receive my art supplies in the mail this has really helped me decompress from all the chaos happening in america right now and although I dot paint with acrylics on rocks I would like to try this form of painting. As I have a disability I'm not able to move about as well and your videos are giving joy to my soul and I'm learning a new skill I might end up painting like a beginner elementary student but I dont care I'm going to enjoy the process thank you again. mikelle Newyork strong beginner student lol🎨✍👍.
Please keep in mind that everyones art will be different. I just did a beginners class, in person and it was cool that although we all had same instructions and same reference, everyones piece was different.
Great tutorial! I found it just in time as I’m about to do my first sunset and had no idea how to go about it. Yes,, I will be using all of these rules! I will also be doing some practice before starting the real thing. I approach each painting as a learning experience rather than a masterpiece to be destroyed by my ineptitude as it reduces the fear factor. This will be B.P. #65 in a series I call Bad Paintings😆. Some of them are finally starting to show some good parts, and I credit you and a couple of other tutors for my progress. Thank you very, very much.
Thank you, I really have learned many things from watching your videos. I am a true beginner, love skies, clouds and sunsets. Haven't done a sunset yet but now I think I can try. Will definitely use the candle wax trick!
Thank you so much for this excellent instruction! I have many gorgeous vacation photos of New Mexico sunsets, and I want to try to paint them; this will help so much. I am trying to get inspired to paint; this quarantine thing is dragging on, and really getting me down. Our governor is a nutcase. Thanks again for your videos, which always cheer me! 😄👍💕 Donna
Michele again greatly appreciated your calming approach to explaining how to painting a sunset, being a newbie I have experienced a lot of what you spoke about. Thankyou
Hello from Oregon and America the 🤩 beautiful! Unfortunately, we had terrible fires and winds last summer and for months the sky was the most amazing colors. I keep trying to capture the intensity of the oranges, reds, and grays. California was on fire again as well. Look it up if for anything the sheer massiveness of the devastation. The colors were breath taking 🦜
How terrible and incredible at the same time. Glad you are safe, I long to visit America but we are barely allowed outdoors currently, being in a strict lockdown.
Thanks Michele. I'm such a rebel. I like using lemon yellow in a sunset. Where I live, I'm just across the lake from Canada; our sunsets can be very weak in yellow. I'll put a rose as next layer so it goes a bit peachy orange. Then rose again before blue to get a violet transition. I'll use a med transparent yellow sometimes but those are deeper disk skies. And looks like travel to see other countries and skies are off limits. Have to find photos. 😉👍💜
I know! I am stuck in rainy England, wanted to take my daughter to Malta in May, that's not happening! Nor is next year's art holiday, my art classes or anything else... Everything online now! Sunsets from photos!
Enjoy this tutorial very much, all the tips were interesting but the candel wax was great. I have got some great tips from your other videos but would it be possible to do some landscapes. Hope you don'r mind me asking.
this has been very helpful! I'm illustrating a picture book about my family's love for Lake Michigan, and i;ve been stumped on a Lake Michigan sunRISE. It's beautiful and very smooth and subtle, Wish I couls share my inspiration photo!
Really great tutorial. As a beginner I love trying new things like sunsets but watercolour paper is so expensive especially when you buy 100% cotton for wet on wet. Do you have any suggestions for good budget papers please available in the U.K? Many thanks, you’re the best tutor on RU-vid.X
Thanks so much 😊 You don't need 100% cotton to practice but I do recommend that if using a cheaper, thinner paper you stretch it onto board (I have a video) it makes it far more useable. Cheapest papers in the UK are SAA Rough, 100 sheets quarter imperial works out very low per sheet (I recommend the rough because it's actually very smooth compared to other papers). Next up you can try Bockingford by St Cuthbert's Mill. Avoid own brands like The Works Canson and Black, it's terrible stuff, Artesa I haven't tried but the reviews are terrible. Hope that helps!
Beautiful sunset and wonderful colours. We struggle with how do you distinguish a tube to be a staining colours compared to paint!!? Is it it’s transparency?.
Hi Sylvie, there's no exact rule, you just get to know the main staining colours. They remain staining across brands. The main ones I know are all the Phthalo's, Sepia, Prussian Blue often Violet, some Pinks. They are always very strong and transparent. Earth colours and cadmiums are not usually staining colours.
Not exactly, but a 'block' is the next best option. The pages are gummed around the edges which should protect against the majority of warping. Paper is only stretched whilst on the board, so they can't stretch it and cut it off to sell or it behaves as unstretched paper. The tape needs to keep it taught on the board.
@Fiona Bromby…Hi! Hope that you’ll see this message. 🌟BRILLIANT COMMENT🌟 Finally ..someone brought up the one subject (I could never find answers) of that color. Thank you so much!! Many tutorials I’ve watched over the one + years (beginner)..I’ve seen people use Lemon Yellow for the sky. Upon painting it..lets just say a bit green in places. Their paintings not all all. However they’re the professionals 🤦🏼♀️ So happy and excited to finally see this very thing. Now I can relax a lot more knowing I don’t have to worry about it. I 🌟tip my 👒 to you🌟. Hope everyone is well on your end. Stay safe, Janis🖌🎨🖌
Thank you so much Janis Marie. I’m a retired art college lecturer in England. I’ve taught all ages for 40 years !,, I paint under the name of Fiona Field. I’m sorry to say some of the tutors on utube are not professionals They are competent self taught artists. Who happen to sell their stuff
@@janismarie309 if you are interested I’m sending you my email address I can hopefully answer your questions and attach some examples as well as images best wishes Fiona Bromby field dip AD cert Ed dist
Most common are Prussian, Paynes Grey, Many of the Pinks and Purples, Indian and Transparent Yellows, anything with Phthalo in the title. Cadmiums and semi opaques are rarely staining colours. The easiest way is to swatch them across a line you draw with permanent ink. If the colour is strong, like ink, but you can easily see the black line through the transparent paint, that's a staining colour.
Letting it dry between layers 😳 now why did that never occur to me ! I am going to try a sunset again and hopefully be more successful not trying to get every colour in on one wash! How would you show the sun? It usually appears as a much brighter, lighter spot on most photographs, would you mask out to reserve the white and then use a pale yellow? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you so much for sharing your techniques 😊❤️
