How to Create Depth and Perspective with Watercolour
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- How to Create Depth and Perspective with Watercolour
This week on the clinic I am answering this viewer's question:
"I always struggle with getting darker and therefore I’m missing depth and perspective in my paintings. Everything is just to washed out and there’s no contrast. When I’m adding darker colour I often end up darkening everything, not just the shadows or the foreground…
Thank you so much for these videos, I already learned a lot!"
Colours I used
Payne Grey
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red
Cadmium Yellow
Green Gold
Burnt Sienna
Sap Green
Size 4, 4/0 and rigger brush
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You can now buy the exact same brushes that I use in my videos on my website dewintonpaperco.com/shop/
Thank you Harriet! Of all my wonderful watercolor tutors I watch here on CZcams, YOU are still my favorite 😻.
Ah thank you so much Rita!
Thanks so much for doing a simple landscape! I'd love to see more like this!
You’re welcome! I will!
Excellent teaching!!! I love those colors absolutely breathtaking🧡💛❤💚🤎
Thanks Penny!
You are such a good teacher. Thank you.
Ah thanks for watching
These quick fixes have been invaluable to me. Thanks so much😊
I'm so glad!
Great! I know that I need to be more patient and allow for drying time. Thank you for another great tutorial!
You’re welcomeJan!
just what i needed Harriet I never seem to get the depth right with my paintings so will use your tips Thank you xx
Ah I’m so pleased this can help!
Thank you Harriet. I will have to bear this in mind when I get home from hospital and can resume painting. It has been seven weeks since my fall and is likely to be another two or three weeks before I get home and can resume painting. I had only just taken up watercolour and was really getting into it. It is all very frustrating but at least I have your videos and your two books to keep me going. Nick
Get well soon Nick!
Great lesson on depth and perspective. TY.
Glad it was helpful!
You have done it again!❤️You have a gift for teaching, as well as painting!
Thanks Brenda!
This tutorial is very helpful. I have trouble with depth and dimension. Can’t wait to try again.
So glad it will help!
Love these pro tips! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much for sharing useful tutorial ‼️‼️‼️🤩🤩🤩
You’re so welcome!
so helpful! Thank you so much!
You’re welcome!
Its awesome ... Like always...
Thanks Priyanka!
This was very helpful!!
Thanks Monique!
Beautiful subtle painting, thanks for explaining the process so thoroughly. X
Cheers Shirley!
So lovely. 😍
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you again so much for your tutorials! This was was great to listen to and watch! Will be doing. It video is quick, but the information is great and we all want just a little more! :0)
Ah thanks! That’s the beauty of the quick fix!
Beautiful
Cheers Carla!
Really amazing!
Thank you very much for this helpful video!
So glad you found it helpful
I really saw the depth appear, as if by magic, as you applied the bolder leaf color. Brilliant 👏 Thank you so much for demonstrating this technique.
Ah thanks so much. It’s wonderfully simple isn’t it!
That is beautiful! Gosh you make that look so easy!!! Patience seems key...I live with very significant chronic pain, so I notice that I'll begin with good intentions of not rushing and layering and letting things dry and not doing too much at once...then the pain grows and I notice (later, once it is done and I'm frustrated at the lack of depth or the muddiness) that I am suddenly working very fast without giving it time...🤦🏼♀️ so I'm definitely going to try to plan a bit better. I don't know when my body will allow a bit of painting nor when it will stop me....so maybe if I have a handful of ideas of things I want to paint, each with different degrees of difficulty or size or whatever, but then, instead of my usual way of trying to use every single second of time during that moment of energy given me because I'm inevitably right in the middle of a bad stopping point when it does stop me, I should really look at what I'm wanting to do and sort of plan the layers and keep each layer simple. So plan to do the first layer and stop, even if I think I have a bit more in me. Because what I tend to normally do is push because I get excited to finish since it could be days, weeks, or like now, months, between being able to be doing anything let alone painting, so I try to rush as I feel the pain becoming too much and then get frustrated at myself when it doesn't turn out. So instead...do a layer and maybe then, if I have a bit of energy left, I should just plan out my next layer, even making sure the correct paints are set out and ready, brushes, area cleaned up, etc. Then, whenever it is that I get that break, I know what I want to do for the next layer and continue that way. It will take forever to finish, and that's why I just want to get something, anything done....but for something special or just to practice my layers and depth, I'll have to work on my patience :/ I do try...but I'll be 50 this year and only taught myself to draw & paint a handful of years ago after living most of my life with chronic pain so I just get excited to try everything because art has helped me in SO many ways and I've fallen in love with all of it :)
But this was a great video because I could really see your layers well and that it didn't have to be crazy extravagant...maybe more attainable for me....maybe😳😉😏
Thanks so much for all your hard work of making these! I appreciate them so much because I'm able to learn and be inspired and stay positive by watching them when I'm not able to physically do much else!💕
Sorry for the long comment 😳🤦🏼♀️
So glad you found it helpful!
I actually love longer comments! So sorry you have this chronic pain. I'm 63 and have fibromyalgia myself but not near to the degree of pain you obviously have.
I tried teaching myself how to watercolor back in my 20's and 30's. No computers back then and trying to teach yourself watercolor from books, I found almost impossible. Watercolor varies so much from other types of painting. Thank goodness for videos now! It's such a great help to see how the artists use certain brushstrokes, what type of brushes they use, how they do a painting step by step, and narrations telling you what they're doing and why.
Your comment about patience and taking time is good advice, pain or not. I have very little time to paint or draw and find myself either wanting to rush to get as much done as I can in a limited amount of time, or only get small bits done at any one time. I have always loved watercolor, but it's a strange beast, and requires different skills than other kinds of painting. Sometimes you have to wait for it to dry partially or completely, or work faster. It's always about how dry or wet your paper is and how much water and paint is in your brush to get the effect and color you want.
Something that might help you feel that you've accomplished more in a limited amount of time is to do what are called vignettes - small single objects or partial scenes instead of whole paintings. It's what a lot of sketchbook artists do. It's a style I particularly like and practice. Some sketch artists you might like are Jane LaFazio, Cathy Johnson, and someone who goes by the name BB-Aquarelle. Just do a quick google search for them. BB-Aquarelle is also on instagram.
Another series that I can't recommend highly enough is Mind of Watercolor on CZcams. The instructor is Steve Mitchell and he is the bomb! He has a ton of videos going back to 2014 that cover everything from the basics to comparisons of different types of paper and paint, to all different kinds of painting. He also has some videos where he does plein air paintings that are accompanied by videos of the locations he's painting from, that have some really beautiful scenery. He is also funny and like, the best teacher you could ever have. This is the site - www.youtube.com/@mindofwatercolor
This one in particular has some really beautiful scenery at the start: czcams.com/video/zJ0jqmTM6fQ/video.html
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Anyway, hope you have a good time learning to paint and draw. Art is the journey that never ends, so long as we stay curious and are able to see all the beauty in the world - because then we want to paint it! Right?! Be gentle with yourself and your progress.
@@katepanthera7265 hi Kate :)
Thank you so much for your message!!! I took note of the artists you mentioned and look forward to finding them, especially the ones on CZcams as that and Pinterest are the only "social media" I want to do....this old brain can only handle so much ;)
I'm so sorry for the pain you deal with!! Fibromyalgia is awful!! I hate it as well... my back was shattered in a car accident, i was a backseat passenger, I was sixteen, so over 30yrs ago when back seats just had lapbelts🤦♀️ but, enough vertebrae exploded due to the head on at high speed, so, I still had my legs after some work...they give me more n more trouble of course, but docs think it sort of started all the autoimmune junk and a lot more right then, so the list of things wrong is so long now, that even i wouldn't write out here😊🤣🤷🏼♀️
But after getting my knees replaced years ago it kept me from a wheelchair so that was amazing! Didn't fix the rest of course, but it was huge :) RA and other things just eat away and more things pop up all the time...I'm used to that, ya know, ad used to it as you can be, enough to keep moving forward when its almost too hard too. Hands and elbows better after surgery, my back and all the metal and resulting bulged discs and lots of junk.... so when this last thing got bad enough that I have such little use of my arms, he seemed sure it would be great and go well and we'ddo one arm at a time of course.... but, I woke up with that arm almost completely dead, I could wiggle my fingers, and I wasn't numb so the pain was awful, but I had no control of it, he said it was my fault. I also couldn't breathe because part of my diaphragm has been paralyzed, so it then floats up crushing my lung. I've relearned how to use my arm, mostly, it's not right and won't do certain things and the initial problem isn't fixed. Found out a couple months ago that it's a permanent thing, they hoped it would wake back up and I'd get to do my deep belly breathing again.... but, its not going to. So, oxygen tubing attached to me everywhere.... more money we don't have, and way more useless then before. But.... I give myself some bad emotional days, but I work hard to not be stuck there. And art is one of several things that help me do that. Even though I'm not always able, I still absolutely love to watch people create beautiful things... just being creative in so many different ways. Keeps me focused on that beauty, like you said.
But also, you were so sweet, but even though some of my things are crazy sounding, pain is pain, across the board in my mind. Having something chronic that hurts you, physically, emotionally... it eats away at you, its exhausting in every way, regardless of what it is or how it happened. We each go through different things, we all feel pain differently, even the same diagnoses can show so so differently in different people.
So I don't feel my pain is worse then yours at all!! These things affect us, our family our friends, every part of life suffers, no matter what itnis or how it came to be... I hate seeing anyone in pain, it hurts me to think of people in pain, because I only know my pain, so, when someone else is also in pain, my only frame of reference is mine, and it breaks my heart to have others hurting so much. So please don't think anything you live with is less then another, just different, but it affects us the same in the end.
So, I hate that you love with that, and I'm sure many more things too. So sorry!!
So cool you tried to learn so young and having to just figure it out...thats awesome!!!
I've got myself in a pickle because I really want to paint a card for a recent therapist that has been one of only a couple people to truly help me, at least to work on breaking up some of the mess left in there. But, I've not been well, and my last appt is tomorrow morning. She's painted with oils some and making amazing pottery, but hasn't yet tried watercolor or charcoal (I've recently falling in love with charcoal too, its allowed me to get out some feelings or pictures of my feelings, I've had as long as I can remember which has been great, though dark, but necessary) so I'm using some of my dries tins to make her a small watercolor kit with some charcoal, and of course her card with her favorite flowers... so.... it may have to be something I give her later, or, if I get the energy this afternoon, I'll rush, as always, and we'll see 🤷🏼♀️🤦♀️😁
Clearly I am working on my patience still 🙄 but, I'm not able to do much for others physically, so I always want to try to let people know I appreciate their help because I know its a lot of work and frustrating to deal with this body of mine;)
But I'll have some of these artists you've mentioned on while I sketch out something simple and loose... I say that but tend to get way more detailed then I intended... but, no time for details. I'm clearly overthinking, but it's what I do best. Can't put it off... but, my body has the last say, as you know we'll I'm sure.
Sorry for how crazy long this is...I can't even look🤦♀️🥴😳🤦♀️
I'm jade :) thank you very much for all your advice. I truly appreciate it!!!! 😊🙂
Good sharing my dear
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