How to Paint Loosely with Watercolour
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This painting and video is all about how to paint loosely and freely with watercolour. Painting wet in wet with watercolour lends itself to painting loosely and this occurs much more easily if you use hake brushes. My advice is, if you would like to paint more loosely then use hake brushes, just paint shapes not things and paint wet in wet with a limited palette. I hope you enjoy this video!
0:00 Beginning Advice on Painting Loosely
2:30 Alizarin Crimson Sky
3:00 Cerulean Blue Part of the Sky
4:20 Cobalt Blue and Light Red Clouds and Reflections
6:35 Strengthen the Clouds
8:00 Tape off Horizon and Lift out Light
9:40 Painting in the Land
11:13 Detail with a Rigger Brush
13:52 Lifting out Light on the Horizon
15:00 Using a Razor to Lift out a Strong Line on the Horizon
#watercolour
#watercolourlandscape
#loosewatercolour
Paper:
Arches A4 Cold Pressed 300gsm Watercolour Paper
Paints:
Alizarin Crimson Permanent
Cerulean Blue
Mix of Cobalt Blue and Light Red
Mix of Winsor Blue (red shade) and Light Red
Brushes:
2 Inch Holbein Hake
1 Inch Holbein Hake
Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Size 12
Riggers x2
Series 7 Round Sable by Winsor and Newton Size 0 to sign it
Brushes:
Brushes are important but you don’t need a huge number to be able to paint really well! I love Holbein Hake Brushes as they are softer, have less thickness and so hold a bit less water than the Ron Ranson Hake Brushes (which I like as it gives me more control). I like the thickness of the handle (thinner and lighter than the Ron Ranson Hakes) and the overall weighting of them. But having said all of that you could probably use any sort of hake (although I don’t love Art Spectrum’s Hakes).
Size 12 Round Sable
Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Size 12 - Cornellisen (quite expensive over $150)
geni.us/PureKolinskySableSize
geni.us/IsabeyPureKolinsky
or
Synthetic Round Sable Size 12 - Micadore For Artists - roymac Revolution Taklon - ($20)
geni.us/SyntheticRound
Hake Brushes x 3-4 (you could also get a wide 6”-8” hake brush if you wanted to)
Holbein 2.5” Hake Brush (my preference)
Holbein 2” Hake Brush (my preference)
Holbein 1” Hake Brush (my preference)
geni.us/HolbeinHakeBrush
or
Ron Ranson Large Hake Brush (about 2”)
Ron Ranson Small Hake Brush (about 1”)
geni.us/RonRanson
Flat Nylon
Long Flat Nylon - Robert Wade Neef 980 Taklon Wash: geni.us/RobertWadeNylon
Fan Brush
Fan Brush (I own size 1’s mainly and a size 6) - can be any brand really - I own two Winsor and Newton size 1 fan brushes and an Art Spectrum Series 1000FAN size 6.
I would get Hogs Hair Fan Brushes as they make more interesting marks but that is always personal preference. Some cheap ones on amazon are on the link below:
geni.us/DugatoFanBrushSet
Small Round Sable
Series 7 size ‘0’ Winsor and Newton Finish Round Sable (lovely small brush but more expensive than synthetic): geni.us/Series7WinsorandNewton
A cheaper alternative to the series 7 round sable is: Size 00 Winsor and Newton Cotman Round
geni.us/CotmanRound00
Mixing Brushes
Jasart 577 brushes Size 12 - for mixing brushes - you can get any hogs hair brushes you might use for oil paints. Very cheap! The link below is for a set of oil paint filberts which are perfect!
geni.us/HogsHairMixingBrushes
Other brushes you could get to help with your watercolours
Rigger Brush
Sable Regal Rigger Legend Size 1: geni.us/RegalRigger
or
Art Spectrum Size 2 Pure Sable Liner
This Princeton ones are also very good: geni.us/PrincetonLinerSize1
geni.us/PrincetonLiner2
Other:
Spray Bottle Large Garden One: geni.us/AdjustableSprayBottle
Small Spray Bottle for a Finer Spray: geni.us/SmallSprayBottle
MDF Board: geni.us/MDFBoard
Bowls for the paints: geni.us/WhiteBowls
Jars for the water: geni.us/GlassJars
Vase for the water: geni.us/SquareVase or
geni.us/LargeWashingOutJar
Razor Blade: geni.us/StanleyRazorBlades
Small Knife: geni.us/SwissArmyCard
Pencil B, HB or 2B: geni.us/StaedtlerPencils
Tweezers from a Swiss Card: geni.us/SwissArmyCard
Scotch 3M Magic Tape (Green Packet): geni.us/ScotchMagicTape19mm
Scotch 3M Removable Tape (Blue Packet): geni.us/ScotchRemovableTape
Aligloss - used as my desktop and palette: geni.us/AliglossCompositePanel
Tony Smiberts Books
Turners Apprentice: A Watercolour Masterclass: geni.us/TurnersApprentice
Painting Landscapes from your Imagination: geni.us/TrlbvxR
How to Paint Like Turner: geni.us/PaintLikeTurner
How Turner Painted: geni.us/HowTurnerPainted
I have learned more about watercolors in a few hours of watching your videos than from all the other courses, classes, and content, I’ve watched in the past, combined. Seriously.
I'm really glad the videos have helped! Happy painting Kate! ps. I have a course if you are interested. I think there is a link below each youtube video. Cheers Scott
Thank you love the simplicity of this scene!
A small thank you for all your demonstrations 😊
Thank you! That is very kind of you! Scott
@@ScottSwinson 😊
I love the spherical form of the foreground leading to the horizon. Captures a spacial dimension.
Excellent result. Very atmospheric.
Thanks Robert! It didn’t look like much at the beginning! 👍
Thank you Scott this tutorial was packed with great instruction. I love this piece as well. It’s all about the light!
Hi Louis! Yes I tried to communicate many aspects of painting loosely and freely that I think are important. 👍👍
Oh my God, I need to get back into painting and watch your channel every day. Wow!
As usual Scott is always fascinating in his simplest style.His got magic in his hands! Greetings from Mauritius.
Thanks Navona! Would love to visit Mauritius! 👍👍👍
You will be most welcome! By the way , as islanders we share a lot of beautiful seascapes & it will be fun painting tropical seas.
This was so good... thank you!
Hi Scott, Best wishes from the UK. It is always a pleasure to watch you at work and to see your face when signing off. Keep up the good work, you are insirational! Love the aussie accent.
Hi Boondoggled! The UK is my second home! Love the landscapes there! Thanks for the message snd encouragement! 👍🙏
Merci scott un grand merci pour le partage
Beautiful
Love it!!
Wonderful demonstration, thoroughly enjoyed this! Thanks
Thank you Scott,I am just beginning to try watercolour, your videos are really helpful.
Love your loose style
Nice job! I like só much!
Hypnotic🤩
Loving your videos - Learning lots. Lake Macquarie NSW
It is very nice. Thank you.
It's beautiful. You make things so simple.great😊😊
Thank you, very useful!
Excellent teacher 🎊 Thank you 🤩from Canada 🇨🇦
Congratulations on your 20k subs Scott, I'm so pleased for you as I know, from your previous comments, it means a lot for your future plans. It's great to see the 'effervescent' Scott back this week, as you haven't seemed yourself over the last few weeks. This piece shows such a wonderful play of light on water, and demonstrates the importance of leading the eye to the main subject. Thank you. Take care.
Btw, I meant to say I live in the UK, the North of England not far from Whitby. As a full time carer for my husband I don't get out to practice plein air, but it would be wonderful if you could include a UK scene on your channel sometime. Many thanks again for your hard work. Audrey 🙏🙂
Hi Audrey! Thanks so much for your lovely message! Yes you are right there were a few weeks of things not being great but I feel like things are better now. Thanks for your support! I will happily do a painting from a part of the north of England. My wife is from Clitheroe so I’ve seen quite a bit of the northern part but I’ve not been to Whitby yet! Thanks again. Cheers scott 🙏🙏
Such an inspiration and talent, thanks!
Hi Linda! Thanks! 👍
Absolutely beautiful! 👏👏👏👏💙
Thank you!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Congratulations on getting 20K subscribers.
I think this is awesome! A fantastic lesson!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it Patsy! 👍👍👍🙏
Beautiful painting. Thank you Scott. 🥰
Thanks Alicia! 🙏🙏👍
Hi Scott, thanks so much for sharing you're incredible talent so humbly and generously. As a relative beginner it is inspiring and so helpful. As a fellow Aussie, appreciate how you can capture our stunning landscapes seemingly effortlessly but that's the skill of a master. Thanks from sunny Gold Coast.
Merci, très instructif, à bientôt 👌
Amazingly beautiful!!
Thanks! 🙏
Thanks this is helpful and inspiring
Hi Carola! No worries!! 🙏
Thank you for sharing the painting tactic with us, it's simple yet it's lively. I will surely try it out. Cheers!
You are always welcome! Happy painting! 🙏🙏
Hi Scott, greetings from BC, Canada. First time on your site and loving it. Thank you. You were very easy to follow as you speak slow and clearly.
Amazing watercolors painting, so beautiful !!😍😍
Thanks Bianca! 🙏
thanks again for showing us how to paint this beautiful sea view.👍
No worries Vicky! 🙏👍
BRAVO!!
Thanks Lola’s Mom! 🙏
Hi Scot, only just saw this video, I'm a bit behind. So lovely to watch you paint. Less is more they say, but there is skill to making less look great. 20 k wow, but I'm not surprised, it's a great channel. We have lots of snow over here, very Christmassy, so wishing you and family a happy one Alioban x
I’m just starting to find the confidence to paint and I’m so glad I found your channel. I have never been able to draw so this loose painting style is very appealing. Looking forward to giving it a go
Hi Nicky! Yes if you learn to paint in this style you don’t need to do a lot of drawing! 👍👍👍
Magnifique 🤩🤩🤩
J’ADORE 😍🙏
Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Stunningly beautiful! Thank you for sharing these videos…….I am becoming addicted (correction, I AM addicted) to your loose, wet on wet style ❤️🙏❤️
Hi Sue! Yes I’m addicted too to that style of painting! It’s a good addiction to have though!!! 😆 👍👍
Congrats on 20K Subcribers. Im a new one, just subbed today from watching your tutorial!! Loved how you put light back in by using the ruler and razorblade!! Great tip i havent seen before!! Thank you!! And loved your painting!!🔥❤🔥🙏❤️😻
Thanks for subbing!
Супер! Я попробую нарисовать! Великолепно у вас получилось! 😍
I've literally never heard of you until you came up on my feed just now.
I really like your style. The tutorial isn't too fast. And it isn't too slow. I'm going to give this a go. I haven't picked up a brush since all the big C. BS.
I like that it's almost monochrome as well.
I like the sound effect!
Hi Helene! Do you mean in the very beginning? 👍🙏
Thanks!
You are welcome Monica! 🙏
Hi Scott.... beautiful
Thanks Begona! 🙏
Just found you, love your style, great tutorial can’t wait to try this, thank you!
Hi Pam! Welcome! Hope you like the channel and the different videos! 👍👍
@@ScottSwinson I love them Scott, amazing and so inspiring thank you.
@@pam4924 you are always welcome! 🙏
Superb
Thanks 🤗
Great!!
Thanks Monique! 🙏
Thank-you Scott! I not only appreciate your talent, but I'm so grateful for your teaching as well. I'm not formally trained. I'm definitely trying to understand and learn the making of a great piece of art through composition, values and shapes etc. just like you! Every one of your videos increases my understanding and I'm excited every time I look to see if the notification bell has a new tutorial from you. Thank-you for your generous heart! If it's okay with you I have a question about another video of yours here on CZcams? I'm sorry I don't remember the title, but it was for beginners. During the tutorial you had the reference photo in the top left/right hand side of the screen. It was very helpful to see that. I know the reference is only meant as a guide, but it was very cool to see what you were observing(another skill I'm trying to learn) and the decisions you were making to have a great outcome. I just loved that! I was wondering if you might be able to incorporate this in future videos. Thank-you again! P.S. My apologies for this being too wordy. :-)
Hi Julie! Thanks! I’m really pleased you like the videos! If I am using a reference photo in my next painting I will put it on the screen. Good to know it was helpful to see it. On Patreon I always share a JPEG of the reference photo but you can’t do that on CZcams. Happy painting! 👍🙏
Loverly
A fantastic tutorial! Very practical, with great technique tips. Love how you are mixing your watercolours directly on the white bench top. What is the bench top? White laminate or melamine? And I notice you use 3M tape for both sticking down the 300gsm watercolour paper and to do straight lines in the watercolour. is that the tape you're using, 3M magic (or invisible tape)? Your large flat brushes, are they best in goat's hair?
Thanks for this - love the pink backing. It would be useful to know what you are painting before you begin, as time went on i realised it was water but at the beginning i couldn't understand what the vertical marks were for!
Thank you Steve. It’s always a surprise how your paintings turn out. Never predictable ! I suppose that’s the nature of watercolour. The skill is also in the wetness of the page. Personally, I need to paint larger now, I’m a coward with large sheets.
Hi Barbara! Thanks! (It’s Scott by the way! But you can call me Steve if you want! Lol!) if you want to paint larger you should go for it knowing it might be strange and uncomfortable to begin with! 👍👍
@@ScottSwinson sorry Scott- I follow too many Steves Hahahah. Thanks for the advice, I need to get an idea, squeeze out enough paint and just try.
Hi Scott, greetings from the UK. Your videos are always such a pleasure to watch especially for beginners but....don't get stressed???!!!? I am finding hakes quite difficult to get used to but will persevere. This painting is beautiful and I will be trying it.
Hi Pamela! I know! Fir some people they can’t imagine being stressed while painting but for others it can become stressful and that is the last thing you want with something that is meant to bring you joy and exploration! Happy painting! Hope you enjoy it! 👍
That is spectacular! A unique approach I haven’t seen on CZcams, so far. May I ask what type of a drafting tape you are using for your border? The one I’m using comes off easily while painting… Thank you sharing your gift.
Hi Chu! I’m really pleased you enjoyed it! I use 3M magic tape to tape down the paper. 25% of the tape on the paper and 75% on the board. I use MDF board. 👍👍
Wooohoo 20k ! Congratulations! Scott, what is the difference between a Holbein hake and Ron Ranson?
Thanks Sue!! Pretty cool! The difference is the Holbein hakes seem to have softer goat hair and have a bit less which in my eyes makes it easier to control the amount of water/pigment moving onto the page. And the softness makes it easier to paint a layer over the top of an existing layer with out disturbing it! 👍👍
Bravo mi piace molto
Beautiful as ever. It really looks so easy but really isn't! :) xx
Hi Marilyn! Yes not always easy to get that glassy look! Thanks Marilyn! 🙏🙏
Hi Scott, I’ve just discovered your channel and I’m hooked! One question though: any reason you paint on a flat board rather than a board that is tilted at an angle? Cheers, Adeline
Light filled! What is the tape you are using?
Hello Scott The tape you used has it got to be 3M tape for this work would sellotape would work or is it too tacky thanks great technique
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Thanks! Tried to translate but didn't work!
Hi Scott, I love your work. I have Parkinson’s Disease and want to try to do an abstract painting of a symbol for this disease. I’m thinking an iceberg with 15% above the water and 85% below because that is what describes PD. (Only 15% is visible). Could you give me an idea where to start? I know I’m asking a lot, but maybe just a hint. I’m trying several of your paintings - all are beautiful - everyone different! Thank you. Daphne from Canada
What paint and what colors to buy
Do u treat the handle of hake brushes
I'm curious, why did you use a razor blade instead of adding white paint?
Are you going to start posting more videos?
Very beautiful but can you translate in French???
Hi Dominique there are subtitles available in French. Just google how to do it. Cheers scott
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Thanks Socrates! 👍👍
why do you not paint on an angle?