Painting With a Loose Technique
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- 'Loosening Up' is a term we often hear in the world of watercolour and landscape painting. What exactly does it mean? How do we develop this technique? Is it really the case that it's the only 'proper' way to paint landscapes in watercolour? Follow me as I paint the same countryside scene loosely, and then in a more controlled way.
It’s really great to see you back in the CZcams world!! You teach in a way that no one else does! I love your explanations and demonstrations both. This side by side one is awesome!! Thank you so very much!
I'm so happy to have found your tutorials. I've been paintings watercolor for a couple years, self-taught through u-tube tutorials. Yours are by far the best I've seen. Please keep making tutorials!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful tutorials on CZcams.
I am 79 years old. I used to enjoy drawing when I was young, and by my teens had become reasonably proficient, but I never really advanced into any other media. Then family and work commitments meant that I didn't have time for hobbies, and for 50 years I haven't drawn anything.
But now that I'm retired, and I have time, I have decided to see if I can pick up where I left off. So I bought a "watercolour starter set", and a book, and subscribed to your CZcams channel. The starter set is probably not great, but it has at least put a brush in my hands and some paint on paper for the first time.
Your videos are so informative and relaxed that I am learning faster than I thought possible at my age, although I have to confess that, when watching them, the first thing I look for is the cricket ball on your bookshelf.
Love your videos and your paintings. Every time you say one paints how they feel about the subject I always think you paint how you feel. Period. That is why some people always use muted colors and some people always use brilliant colors. They paint themselves and their likes and dislikes into the subject. They see the subject through the lens of who they are . . . their very being, their soul.
As someone who is just starting out his journey into watercolors, I can't tell you how grateful I am to have a resource like this for the information as well as for inspiration. I truly appreciate the effort you put into your videos to explain things from large to small to give a holistic view of the multi-faced painting process. Videos like this absolutely indispensable for an aspiring artist. Thank you!!!
What an incredible teacher! This is the second tutorial by you that I've watched (first one was on brushstrokes) and I already have learned SO much! You have put your approaches to a painting, techniques, and thought-processes into perspective (no pun intended!) in a brilliant way. Your art is magnificent too. Thank you, Oliver.
Oliver, you are still the best instructor for those of us just starting out! You tackle all the most important questions and concepts related to watercolor like no other! I look forward to your next video!
Cheers!
This is overwhelming! When the paint starts flowing I start to panic! If I can just achieve the sky, I’ll be happy. Thank you so much for giving so much of your time and expertise. Much appreciated. 🦋
We are so happy to have found you! You are a fabulous teacher, just fabulous! We can't wait to watch more of your wonderful videos that address all of the challenges that especially beginners face in such a relaxed and understandable way. Thank you!
So much wonderful information..it made such a difference to see both styles at the same time...I had never seen that before...but when I first saw your paintings, it was love at first sight...the same peace that I feel in the country, at the ocean, and in the quaint towns was all in your work ! This video is treasure to me ☺
Finally a new video Oliver please make more it is amazing all the videos are extremely helpful,very entertaining and brilliant content.Make more in the future please.All the best to you sir Pyle.
@@EdoHannema-Watercolour-Art I think the original poster was just trying to offer their enthusiasm and encouragement, which is hard to convey in simple text. You're right; making videos is very time consuming - especially videos of quality teaching which also requires a lot of planning - I am sure Oliver will be pleased to know that people are keen to see him do more. It will make the effort he already puts in more worthwhile. Take care and have a great day.
@@EdoHannema-Watercolour-Art A shame that the simple phrase "make more in the future please," would block you. I'm sure Oliver won't have a problem with it. To me, it simply seems positive, hopeful and bit excited.
@@EdoHannema-Watercolour-Art @Edo Hannema Everything is relative really Edo. I enjoy your channel too, as well as Oliver's work. I fancied having a channel of my own, but having never had any formal art training, I don't think I am qualified to set up to teach. This is despite having painted; one way or another, since childhood, and seriously so since the 1960s. The part of Oliver's videos I enjoy is the quiet, informed way in which he goes about things. He also finally convinced me of the worth of a tonal/value study. I am doing more of those than actual paintings !!! I can wait Oliver, so just take your time. The quality is assured! John in Brummagem.
Your absolutely right, just because it's there doesn't mean you have to put it in.
This is the best demonstration of tight vs. loose styles of watercolor painting. Showing us both styles is brilliant.
Thank you - Delighted it helped Janet
I really enjoy your tutorials. I think somewhere between the two styles works best, or perhaps a combination. Parts of the loose one seem chaotic to me, in particular the distant field and trees. The tight one is very controlled and more like an illustration. All just my opinion of course. 😊
I’ve been hoping you would make another tutorial as I think you are an inspiration. As someone quite new to painting landscapes in watercolour I do feel more comfortable with a tighter style but after watching your very enjoyable and interesting video I’m going to ‘give it a go’. Thank you for your generosity in sharing so many tips and your gentle reassurance
The loose work is much better, more relaxed. The tight work can have a propensity to look it little cartoonish and is how my work can look when I am not concentrating properly. Thank you for the tutorial, it has encouraged me to try harder and work with the loosed style which takes a lot more practise but is well worth it.
I agree. I think that's because it can be done by anyone, even a child. I wish that we could invent a new term for watercolor painting that means (watercolor painted by an exceptionally talented artist). Unfortunately, these CZcamsrs say "paint your picture ANY way you like to paint it and it's good enough to be a watercolor painting".
@@davepane7306 that's literally true though,, you can paint any way you want. don't be so elitist
Hi Oliver,
You are an amazing teacher, not many people will open their heart ( skills tool chest ) out in open to teach others. What I enjoyed most was to hear how you think, how you approach the subject and how that translates to your application/technique and the final work. Thanks again, Shailesh
This brilliant video should be counted as one the most helpful videos for amateur watercolorists, like me, who paint just for fun and once a week. It helps us to ease our techniques and achieve better results. Thank you Oliver!!
These tutorials are so helpful and this side-by-side of two methods is particularly useful to someone like me who always gets projects muddled by faffing with too many details.
Thanks you for taking the time to do these tutorials, they are so so helpful! Brilliant paintings and brilliant teaching!
I really enjoyed this Oliver. Thanks so much - interesting to see the different results, loose and tight. Thanks - Sue from Sydney
This has been the best explanation and visual on how to paint loosely. I have been trying for years, and this really helped me to better understand what I need to do and learn. Thank you so much!
I draw n paint with acrylics.some 35 yrs.now but not much with watercolors.. I've never found anyone to keep my interest long enough to learn.That has all change since watching n listening to you the last 2 daysI can't even tell you how much I'm learning from you n how grateful I am for I'm still just watching n listening.I Will be ready to start soon .I'm excited to find my own style as I grow.You are a wonderful teacher, Thankyou Oliver!
Thanks so much for your tutorials. I have done watercolour paintings for many years. You explain what you are doing, and WHY. I have appreciated you slow’ish explanations, with no distracting background music (as with some other artists on CZcams) it’s a real pleasure to relax and take on board your techniques. I have become far more confident in developing a more ‘free style’ and, how to paint a variety of trees especially, since watching many of your tutorials.
I look forward to seeing more. Thank you.
Delighted to enjoy and learn from your tutorials. Please keep guiding and inspiring us to develop our expressions in paint
The loose version is vastly better, I think. I like your style a lot. It's sort of medium loose to really loose and I like that combination in a painting. I used to do a lot of watercolor painting when I was in my teens but would always struggle with my paintings being too tight. After watching your videos, I see a lot of areas where I was doing things wrong.
That's a great way of looking at it... even better way of explaining it.. thank you so much friend!
I’m so glad I ‘found’ you on CZcams! Such an amazing resource!!! THANKS
Have to agree the loose painting is absolutely beautiful
This demo has finally opened my mind to understanding how a looser painting is achieved. It’s really a mind set. The side by side is a perfect teaching strategy. Thank you. 35:17
Enjoying your teaching. My cat loves watching you, too.
Thank you, this was a very important comparison. I'm new to this and plan to get better at the loose style, I'm adding tools to my painterly toolbelt all the time. Thank you for your patience and explanations.
What a wonderful teacher you are! Learnt so much from your videos. Hoping you make more of the paint along
Looking forward to more videos and tutorials from you Olly! You are the BEST on CZcams! Thank you. Shanna
Thank you for being generous with your time and expertise. Your tutorials are the most helpful. I don’t usually post comments but it’s great that you have come out of your summer hibernation. Looking forward to the next tutorial.
You have such a light lovely touch while painting. Love your technique
Without doubt the most comprehensive, detailed and best explained difference between a more illustration type WC as oppose a far looser style. Doing both at the same time, an excellent idea, is so obvious, but no one else has done it. You also don't do which really annoys me, when artists speed up the painting, talk rubbish for the sake of it, annoying music all the time, really well lit, in focus and we can see your mixing and brush technique at the same time. As an ex teacher (from industry) I really liked your summing up, where you went through all the thought processes going on in your head, and you are 'choosing' techniques learnt over many years to leading to students saying it looks so easy. I always start out being calm, have every thing at hand but when I finish my desk looks like a bomb has hit it. I am at a point trying to decide my own personal style and this has really helped me in making my mind up of using quite good line, ink and wash skills due to being a draughtsman when a young man as oppose the looser style. Recently have been able to create skies, shadows for trees, foliage and walls by suggestion as oppose doing as you so rightly say 'painting with numbers. Will certainly watch this one again, there is so much you show us.
I totally agree that your loose painting is much better than the one that is more defined. It just feels so relaxing. I so appreciate seeing both of these methods and gives me so much more freedom and spontenaity. I know that it will take a lot of work to get to that level of freedom with lots of creating to get to there. I can totally relate to the learning from so many different tutors and styles and I find myself doing just as you mentioned. Thinking oh, I want to try that. When I do sometimes its good because I find out that I dont like it at all. I check that off and say to myself, it wasnt a waste of time necessarily because I dont know what I dont know and I dont experience things without trying them. I always learn something that I can use. I do feel as though you can try too much and never settle on what really makes you happy to paint. Right now watching you I am drawn to this, so I want to explore it and see where I go with it.
Much food for thought here Olly, and thank you for showing us both of these techniques. I can see how a more defined style may be necessary for the focal point, like the dry stone wall on your larger finished painting that you showed us looking towards Kimmeridge - that is a fabulous painting btw! And I can see how a looser approach is great for dealing with backgrounds and skies where they may not be the focal point. You just have to judge for yourself where each approach may, or may not, be appropriate for the different parts of your painting. All I know is that with your paintings, I feel as though I can breathe and look about as the Viewer. If I can achieve that peace and serenity in my own work, I'd be really happy! Thank you for showing us your amazing skills 👏😀
Very well guided by you. I mostly paint in water colors. And I use these techniques.
Thanks for busting those myths about loose technique, I was thinking some of those myself ;D I agree with the many comments appreciating the many tips shared and the individuality brought into the painting. I for one am awed by the way you apply colour here and there, saying this is a stone wall, these are shadows, these are clouds, and I'm thinking, huh? And then they are all gradually revealed to be exactly those things you said they were. It shows me how well you Know those techniques, those colours and shades - that if they are applied this way and this much, they create these and those effects and work to give an impression like so. I'm just starting out so I will probably take a long time, if I do, to get there, but the promise of it is delicious! :)
Thank you. It's all about familiarity with techniques, equipment and knowing what they can deliver. Always look ahead when painting watercolour and know where you want to go with the washes and shapes that you make.
Thank you Oliver, in my opinion, you are by far the best instructor out there !
Thank you for this! Your showing two techniques side by side has helped me to see and understand both techniques not only more clearly (!) but also not leaving me with the feeling that one is wrong and one is right. It invited me to feel my way thru, what feels best to me. I really appreciate your explanations and your ability to convey encouragement.
Thanks Alex - absolutely, finding what works for you is the best way forward. So many feel that it's important to look for and then be constrained by the 'right' way to paint. Madness!
Thanks Oliver for these useful lessons. You clearly demonstrated the difference b/n loose and tight paintings. You made nice paintings with a limited palette as well. Hope to see more.
Your explanations, distinctions between loose and detailed are very good. Painting by numbers and illustrating are examples. Your two versions show that pretty well. I think it's a difficult distinction to demonstrate. Small brushes almost compel one to paint details. Larger brushes encourage looseness, as you point out. This is the first time I've seen you on CZcams. I'll look forward to watching more of your work and teaching.
Thank you Oliver! Your tutorials are amazing!
Thank you for demonstrating the difference between the two. You've shown the difference between an illustration using watercolor and a lovely loose watercolor that conveys the spirit of the landscape. Well done.
Thanks for all the tips and techniques especially for the comparison of the loose and rigid techniques of this composition! The loose painting really was nice and painterly!
Wonderful tutorial ! I learnt so much. You have a great teaching style and you are obviously a great water colourist
Thank you so much Oliver an absolutely wonderful demonstration. To see the two styles next to each other gives a much clearer explanation than words alone ever could.
Thank you Oliver for your latest video,long overdue.I have done a few paintings in your style and are in frames at home.Really like your trains which combine loose and controlled techniques.
When I was taught how to stretch paper years ago I used packaging tape also. It really does make an almost "drum tight" surface on which to work. I enjoyed your demo. Subbed.
Thank you so much for your tutelage, Olly. Even though you often teach to beginners, the style is elevated ... more subtlety and sophistication than most other YT instructors. I'm gravitating toward a gentler color palette rather than the "vibrant" colors so highly touted by others. Your methods and color choices are helping me move closer to the style I want to paint.
Thank you so much, Oliver, for this great tutorial!
Comparison was SOOOO helpful. Thank you.
More on planning out the approach to a painting before paint ever touches paper would be very helpful. Knowing where to start is often intimidating as a novice.
When I started out I found the plain paper daunting. I've found two ways to get over my hesitation: 1.I fill a brush with a watery colour and splash it onto the paper. Now the paper is no longer clean it isn't scary. The dirty water will blend into your work. 2. The work looks like it isn't going the right way? Put it under the tap or swish it back and forth in the canal (sea water is salty so the final results may be grainy) A shadow of the previous work will remain but everything we do is connected isn't it? As you get more confident with your work - and Oliver's help is great- you may find the clean paper is less daunting. Remember that you are painting for yourself, for the pleasure of expressing your creativity. What other people think is completely irrelevant. Sure, we love it when we get praise but the learning process is fun and essential. So don't worry! Be happy! Watercolour offers a lifelong opportunity to explore colour, rhythm and to be at one with yourself and, by extension, with the universe. Last but not least: never throw work away. You can paint on the other side of the paper, tear the work up for collage/cards and thereby transform it; or, miracle of miracles - the work seen months or years later might not be as awful as you thought.
Great to see your back. Can’t wait to watch. Love the style of your presentations.
I listened very carefully to what you have said in this video. They are both beautiful and appealing. I love the "loose" technique most though.
Absolutely wonderful lesson, Oliver. Your explanations are so very helpful.
Fabulous tutorial for a beginner like me. The thought of combining loose and tight techniques. Understanding the difficulty involved, planning ahead, and controlling the wash. The importance of the need for both practice and patients. I’m already seeing gradual improvement which is exciting and very encouraging. Your skills of painting and teaching are of equal rarity. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful instruction Oliver. I can even feel the weather , hear the insects , and smell the fields in your truly loose painting. Your sharing your experience of being in that place. Thank you so much for your thoughtful expression and love for nature. I will practice your techniques ASAP.
I must say you're a very good teacher.
Masterclass. Always a pleasure to see you produce a new video, the content is always instructive. Bring on the next one.
Thank you very much for clarifying the term Loose water colour. I have attended workshop and come across hear participants who were criticised as they couldn’t paint like the tutor .
I love your loose way of painting landscapes, I have learned so much from your videos and use a lot of your tips to my advantage...I love your style of teaching, giving demonstrations and showing in detail the difference in painting styles, and I'm definitely impressed with the looser style and how it gives the suggestions to the viewer....
Thank you for this demonstration. It clears a lot of confusion regarding loose painting.
Thank you so much for making all this tutorial. I've been trying to paint using watercolor, and now I know how to start!
Thank you, Oliver. You are a wealth of information on watercolor painting! This was extremely helpful for me.
You are a gifted teacher, Oliver, and a very effective communicator. Have you considered writing a book at all?
Love your gentle teaching style. So much good information and reminders.
Love your videos, found your account yesterday. Keep them coming please. Very hard to find someone so competent that's easy to listen to that I learn so much from. Thank you 🙏
Thank you Oliver. I am a "baby" in this new adventure called water color. This video was wonderful and very helpful to me. Exactly what I needed to help me "loosen up."
Ah Oliver, just when I think concepts cannot be better explained - You do it again , and they are ! such a comprehensive journey.
Many thanks ! Your tutorials are priceless.Besides the technical aspects you demonstrate so beautifully, what resonated with me the most was the emotional aspect to loose painting, Finding our own way to convey what we see and feel in the outdoors. the serenity ,the joy and the spontaneity of expression. I truly hope I can get there eventually, no matter how long that takes. Your paintings are like music and poetry combined.
Once again a really excellent and helpful tutorial. Really inspiring and can't wait for the next one . Thanks so much!
Thank you for helping me see why sometimes my work looks stiff or lifeless. Watercolor has so very many facets to learn it will be a delight to work with for years to come. I typically quit when the challenge is gone. No danger of that here! "I think I may have forgotten one or two leaves..." Ha!
Thank you so much for your channel . I love the way you give the information! After three years of searching myself in painting I can say I finally found it here. I love nature and landscapes
Thanks for another great tutorial. So much to reflect upon. And the teaser for the next video describes me to a tee. So looking forward to that also.
Very interesting comparison. This is challenging me. I'm new to painting, but I am not new to being a detailed person. Loosen up, Pam. Loosen up.
great advice yet again, Oliver, super skills, great demonstration, thanks again!
Great video Oliver! It really showcases the advantages and disadvantages of both techniques of painting. Personally I implement both in my process, I typically start loose then I tighten & refine in progressive layers.
You are a wonderful teacher ~
Your wonderful lesson let me start watercolor painting again
Thank you so much :)
Thank you. Lots of food for thought here. I actually like both the paintings and am not bothered by regular fence posts. The foreground whispy grasses could be taken away and both the paintings be stronger for that. Really love the distant ghostly trees in the loose style. I am going to try this, it achieves distance very well. Love your channel. Thank you.
Very useful thank you very much. I’m glad I found you on CZcams
Thank you so much. You helped me one step closer to how to start to paint. Thank you for valuable information.
"I may have forgotten one or two leaves"😂. Such a generous and valuable tutorial. Many thanks Oliver.
Watched a few off your videos now, you are a fantastic teacher, you put it over well and easy to understand, and a great painter
Thank you for this tutorial, I enjoyed the learning and 2 great pictures but love the free paining Andrea UK
Very helpful to see both techniques side by side. I tend to paint more controlled and want to be more lose. Thanks!
I loved the comparison of both methods. The final projects (side by side) were very helpful. I'm trying to get more loose. I enjoy your work and this video was very helpful! THANK you!!
Very very useful lesson…explained so clearly in simple terms.
This really is so helpful. Thanks so very much.
oliver i’m so happy to have found you, i’m in awe of your work, think you’re amazing and what’s more i’ve just realised you’re a leftie woohoo!😍
really appreciate your video. I am learning watercolor by myself. You and your video definitely give me a huge help. Thanks very much.
Thank you so much for all the great instructions.
So well explained! I loved your final words of advice. thanks so much!
Excellent comparison of loose vs tight techniques. I learned a great deal from this video and I appreciate your teaching style. Thanks very much.
Thank you, Oliver ~ another informative demo. They are both lovely paintings, but I definitely prefer the wet-into-wet technique. Watercolour is such an exciting medium!
Excellent tutorial ….I keep trying to loosen up and when I do, I love the results. Thanks for all your videos!!
Dear Oliver, below comments was most appropriate to describe your tutorials, I watch many artist on youtube which I literately learn painting from youtube since covid started (last November). Love your style, thank you.
Thanks Linda - you're very welcome
Not to be contradictory to insult but I find the controlled technique exceeds the lose painting, in this circumstance of comparison at least. And not to say that either one isn't filled with talent. Just my opinion! Love these videos!
Beautifully rendered and explained as usual Oliver, I feel a little more motivated watching this tutorial.
I stumbled across your video wet on wet wet on dry. I finally understand. Your teaching methods are very understanding and easy to follow. I will watch from here on. THANK YOU
You're welcome Debbie - thank you.