Thank you so much!!! I'm the person who's always saying "crafts, painting etc is not for me".Thanks to you and I gained in self-confidence and can now paint beautiful things ( well not as much as you but ok for me). Your voice is calm, I could spend all my Sundays listening to Debusssy in the background and watching your tutorials. I've literally painted 38 different types of leaves 🍃 yesterday! Have a lovely week!❤
I've invested a lot of $ and time over the years trying to acquire this very information: WHAT to practice and HOW. So glad I found your channel. Thank you for great job of plain talk and simple to follow directions!
Thank you so much for your clear advice. I have watched a few of your most recent postings and have decided to go back to the beginning. Looking forward to the journey.
Just found your channel and as a beginner watercolor painter, I love your videos. I’ve been struggling with either too much water or not enough water. This video was very helpful. Thanks!
Looking forward to these tutorial all the way through! I'd like to learn to paint FLORALS and BOTANICALS, maybe a little rabbit, a squirrel or two. Thank you so much!!!
I just found you and came to your playlist. I am a 64 year old brand new beginner to watercolor. I am a worship leader at my church ( vocals keyboard) so I love the arts. I draw stick people. lol that is my level of Art. I am so excited to see how you can help me with watercolor. God bless!
As another viewer has said, this video has led to a breakthrough for me! Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously. These tutorials supplement the book so nicely.
Hi from Norway☺️ I have just discovered your channel. As a beginner I have watched so many tutorials on other channels, but I honestly find yours to be the best. I am just finding my way back to watercolor painting. When I was in my early twenties I painted quite a bit. I am now in my early 50s, so I have to start all over again. I have to be going back to basic, and I am looking forward to be following your tutorials🤩
I have been watching lots of watercolor videos over the past two years, but I really appreciate how in this one you gave a VERY clear view of loading your brush! Thank you!
Wow, yet again. I'm sure I heard you say '..and it's easy ..' as you drew the second C curve; one day it will be, one day. Your cheeriness is a big part, by the way - what you said at the end about being happy and relaxed, I'll work on that too. Thanks again!
Muchas gracias por el vídeo! 😍😍😍He aprendido que no necesito pinceles muy finos para hacer líneas, que con un mismo pincel puedo hacer muchas cosas diferentes. He testeado mi colección y he tirado a la basura dos que no hacían buena punta, gracias. Me cuesta mucho acabar el trazo de la letra C porque se me abren las cerdas del pincel, tendré que seguir practicando ☺️☺️. Hay algún truco?, será que necesito pinceles mejores? Colgaré fotos de mis progresos en @123_maryrose
Dear Harriet--I cannot tell you how much joy your tutorials bring me! I never thought I was a creative person but there is beauty on my page when I am done! Thank you for sharing your talent so selflessly
I have been searching for a tutorial like this. It's so detailed and the way you narrate it is so satisfying and calming. Now I have more confidence in painting with watercolors. Thankyou so much for this tutorial ❤️
I love the delicacy and beauty of the flowers in your book, and I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to see exactly how you achieve your signature look. And as a fellow leftie, it's great to see someone paint the way I do!
Ah Kim, left handers unite! Yes we will be getting to flowers sooner than you know! Thanks so much for watching. We're having a filming day right now, looking at mixing different colours.
Oh my goodness! After going through sooo many tutorials...THIS one has been my breakthrough🙏 have ordered your book just now...can’t wait to do more of your tutorials...thank you🙏
Ditto. After multiple attempts at doing a "basic" landscape using youtube tutorials, and having a bunch of "basic" smears on my page, I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere by going to the basics and just practicing that. I spend an hour doing "S"s from the last tutorial and enjoyed just the brush stroke. Kinda like petting a cat!
I have been watercolour painting for years, but it’s very hit and miss. Never have I been shown how to do these brush strokes! You have changed my life! Thank you!
I have watched so many tutorials on brushstrokes, and never have I seen or heard them explained as clearly as you have in this video! Now I understand why my straight lines sputter and jump, and now I totally understand the hand movement/body memory involved in the tapered, C, and S! thank you
This really helped me improve my control of the brush and the results are better lines, curves and leaves. I always thought you needed lots of different sizes of brushes to get the different sizes of lines and shapes. Obviously not. So I’m spending a lot of time practicing and re-watching this video very very helpful to me. thank you
this video is so helpful in showing how you can get so many different lines/shapes from just one brush! I have been to a few beginners classes and never once have they focused on control of your brush strokes. Thanks Harriet xx
I too have watched soooo many beginner water colour tutorials and yours gave to be the best. Thank you so so much for well structured and clearly delivered information . no drama just wonderful teaching thanks again RAEWYN
The detail in your tutorials is amazing. I found you a couple of weeks ago through summer retreat classes. I am a beginner and I have already your botanical book and preordered the new one. Would really love to learn more re. Sketching and painting cottages or buildings.
Your videos are one of the most in-depth beginner watercolor tutorials there are. Glad to stumbled on your IG and CZcams accounts today! Thanks a million from a new subscriber here in the Philippines!
Great logical and fun instruction. Slow enough to catch the drift of the idea. Not so fast that things just magically appear on the page. Calligraphy-like strokes for sure! Just got your book “Painting Watercolour Botanicals”. It’s sooooo helpful. So glad I found you.
Your book arrived today....love, love, love it, its Easter weekend, taking it away with my paints will keep practicing, want to master watercolour this time, found your tutorial on youtube today also, very clear explanation, I cannot thankyou enough, feel I am going to master it this time around, have been trying books by different artist, and really gel with your way of teaching. Big thanks from Australia.
I have been enjoying watching these beginner tutorials. I just decided in November 2020 to try to take up watercolor as a hobby. I love art. I actually took up photography a few years ago (photographing flowers and garden landscapes) so that I could use my photos to paint flowers and landscapes. Long story, ended up loving the photography time and put aside the idea of painting until now. What a surprise to find that when I gave it a try, I was a disaster. Too much water, or muddiness . . . not able to let things be but trying to make something right while the paint was still wet . . . well you know. Then I found your tutorials on how to paint flowers, and now these real beginner ones! Well, I can't be more delighted. I was able to paint 3 good-looking tulips after watching your video. Wow! I was so proud. Now I am watching these basic beginner episodes and I will be happily following you on CZcams. Thanks so much! BTW -- it is especially instructive watching you because I am also left-handed and it is easier somehow to watch another left-handed person teach brushstrokes, etc.
I don't know if it's just me, but I (a right-handed person) find it much easier to mirror your C and S curves, so I don't have to push the brush. I practised and practised until I just said to myself: Wait a minute, let's try it the other way round, et voilà, much better. And before I forget: I love your videos! I had your book before I found your channel here, and the visual demonstrations compliment it so nicely. Your way of explaining is so calm and motivating. I really like it!
Exactly the lesson I needed. Just took up watercolors a couple of weeks ago. Seem to be gravitating toward botanicals so this is perfect. Looking forward to more of your lessons.
@@deWintonPaperCo So funny... I was confused at your reply at first....Actually it's my husbands google acct. I am Shelley LOL! I will sign my name next time;-))
Hello from Ukraine! I’ve just ordered your book on a bookdepository and looking forward to star painting with you! Thank you for your CZcams lessons! It’s very interesting to me to hear and learn how some one explain not in the same way like I learned a while ago:)
Fantásticos vídeos para iniciarse en la acuarela, muchas gracias por compartirlos! Tengo que mejorar las terminaciones de la C porque casi siempre se me abren las cerdas del pincel y no puedo acabarla finita. Tendré que practicar más y comprarme un buen 🖌
Agree with others, and your response to them - I've been working from the book and did fine - but actually seeing you do it on video is much more helpful!
I have been longing for this kind of lesson! I have been so frustrated watching so many artists only to fail myself. Your simple teaching has given me HOPE! I actually was successful at painting a tulip leaf with your brush strokes. Where can I purchase those brushes in the US?
Ah wonderful stuff Barbara. I’m not entirely sure where in the USA has those brushes but it would be good to just google the brand : pro arte master stroke and see what comes up
I would imagine a "backwards" C or S curve would be valuable to practice as well? Flora will be my starting point (via your book I'm pleased to say), but I also love fauna--I can imagine the thin-thick-thin would be wonderful for feather, fur, and scale variations. Oh the possibilities ;-).
Harriet thank you for this class. I have tried to order the Pro Arte brushes, but for the time being they are not shipping to the US (I guess bc of the pandemic). So, I will make do with what I can get for now.
Thank you so much for these. I now need to practice these exercises on the various papers I've bought, to work out how the watercolours behave when I use them. I think I've confused myself by using different papers. It seems results are quite often very different because of how much water is applied and then absorbed or sits on the surface?
What a blessing to have found you. Thank you. I want to paint a meadow scene with a few flowers, 2 butterflies. Can you direct me to some painting compositions. Which come first the objects or the background? Thank you
thank you for this beautiful tutorial! I am having some trouble with the c and S curves; my bristles splay out on the transition from thick to thin and give a frayed appearance to the thin ends of my curves. Does anyone have any tips for preventing this?
Hi Maria. The playlist ‘watercolour painting for beginners’ has all the beginner tutorials in order. Visit the episode notes for links to buy my book from my Etsy store
Dear Harriet, can you give me, please, the trademark of you brush, I would like to see if I can buy in France. Otherwise, I've seen that you are selling some brush on the site, are they the same you are using ? Thank you very much for all videos you share with us. It's really lovely.
Thank you so much!!! I'm the person who's always saying "crafts, painting etc is not for me".Thanks to you and I gained in self-confidence and can now paint beautiful things ( well not as much as you but ok for me). Your voice is calm, I could spend all my Sundays listening to Debusssy in the background and watching your tutorials. I've literally painted 38 different types of leaves 🍃 yesterday! Have a lovely week!❤
This has made my day, I'm so glad you started to paint!
I am left-handed and am so excited to learn from a left-handed artist/teacher.
Welcome!
This is so valuable - thank you. I’ve tried watercolour painting numerous times and never been shown ‘the basics’. Can’t wait to watch the next one💐
Welcome to the channel June!
These lessons are by far the best ones I have found for learning the skills from scratch. Harriet is so easy to listen to too.
Thanks Judith!
I've invested a lot of $ and time over the years trying to acquire this very information: WHAT to practice and HOW. So glad I found your channel. Thank you for great job of plain talk and simple to follow directions!
So glad you’ve found me, and that this is free!
Stepping back and starting again, discovered what a wonderful teacher you are frOm all the tutors there are online
Thank you
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for your clear advice. I have watched a few of your most recent postings and have decided to go back to the beginning. Looking forward to the journey.
You are so welcome!
Great video - love seeing a left handed painter!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just found your channel and as a beginner watercolor painter, I love your videos. I’ve been struggling with either too much water or not enough water. This video was very helpful. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
I’m new to water coloring and would love a tutorial on how to use a few different brushes-dagger, fan, etc-
Love this Tree painting tutorial!
Thank you! Cheers!
Looking forward to these tutorial all the way through! I'd like to learn to paint FLORALS and BOTANICALS, maybe a little rabbit, a squirrel or two. Thank you so much!!!
Wonderful!
Thank you for demonstrating how to play with the paint & water ratio, which is still a challenge, but this video has helped.
Glad it was helpful!
hello from oregon- usa. Thank you - thank you- thank you.
You’re so welcome!
I just found you and came to your playlist. I am a 64 year old brand new beginner to watercolor. I am a worship leader at my church ( vocals keyboard) so I love the arts.
I draw stick people. lol that is my level of Art. I am so excited to see how you can help me with watercolor. God bless!
You might like this if you draw stick people! czcams.com/video/zBGedON4Xt4/video.html
Following your guidance Harriet, thank you!
You are so welcome!
As another viewer has said, this video has led to a breakthrough for me! Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously. These tutorials supplement the book so nicely.
You are so welcome!
Hi from Norway☺️
I have just discovered your channel. As a beginner I have watched so many tutorials on other channels, but I honestly find yours to be the best. I am just finding my way back to watercolor painting. When I was in my early twenties I painted quite a bit. I am now in my early 50s, so I have to start all over again. I have to be going back to basic, and I am looking forward to be following your tutorials🤩
Awesome! Thank you! And welcome to the channel!
I have been watching lots of watercolor videos over the past two years, but I really appreciate how in this one you gave a VERY clear view of loading your brush! Thank you!
Ah thanks Sue!
Wow, yet again. I'm sure I heard you say '..and it's easy ..' as you drew the second C curve; one day it will be, one day. Your cheeriness is a big part, by the way - what you said at the end about being happy and relaxed, I'll work on that too. Thanks again!
Thanks Thomas, yes, it's all about trying to feel positive and not too anxious about being perfect. Enjoy the process!
Muchas gracias por el vídeo! 😍😍😍He aprendido que no necesito pinceles muy finos para hacer líneas, que con un mismo pincel puedo hacer muchas cosas diferentes. He testeado mi colección y he tirado a la basura dos que no hacían buena punta, gracias. Me cuesta mucho acabar el trazo de la letra C porque se me abren las cerdas del pincel, tendré que seguir practicando ☺️☺️. Hay algún truco?, será que necesito pinceles mejores?
Colgaré fotos de mis progresos en @123_maryrose
Dear Harriet--I cannot tell you how much joy your tutorials bring me! I never thought I was a creative person but there is beauty on my page when I am done! Thank you for sharing your talent so selflessly
Thanks so much for watching Sierra
Hi im a beginner snd this tutorial is very handy. I love the way you paint. Happy new year. Bravissima e bellissima.
Happy new year!
This channel is the best watercolor for beginners I’ve seen so far.😊
Wow, thank you!
I have been searching for a tutorial like this. It's so detailed and the way you narrate it is so satisfying and calming. Now I have more confidence in painting with watercolors. Thankyou so much for this tutorial ❤️
Ah I’m so pleased
I love the delicacy and beauty of the flowers in your book, and I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to see exactly how you achieve your signature look. And as a fellow leftie, it's great to see someone paint the way I do!
Ah Kim, left handers unite! Yes we will be getting to flowers sooner than you know! Thanks so much for watching. We're having a filming day right now, looking at mixing different colours.
Oh my goodness! After going through sooo many tutorials...THIS one has been my breakthrough🙏 have ordered your book just now...can’t wait to do more of your tutorials...thank you🙏
Oh Lisa that is such an amazing message to receive, thank you! I'm so glad we've found each other!
Ditto. After multiple attempts at doing a "basic" landscape using youtube tutorials, and having a bunch of "basic" smears on my page, I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere by going to the basics and just practicing that. I spend an hour doing "S"s from the last tutorial and enjoyed just the brush stroke. Kinda like petting a cat!
I have been watercolour painting for years, but it’s very hit and miss. Never have I been shown how to do these brush strokes! You have changed my life! Thank you!
You are so welcome! Thanks so much for watching Frances.
you are a great teacher. thanks a bunch
You are welcome!
Brillo I need this thank you for sharing xxx
Great!
I have watched so many tutorials on brushstrokes, and never have I seen or heard them explained as clearly as you have in this video! Now I understand why my straight lines sputter and jump, and now I totally understand the hand movement/body memory involved in the tapered, C, and S! thank you
Ah therese I’m so pleased you’ve made a breakthrough! Enjoy your painting!
This really helped me improve my control of the brush and the results are better lines, curves and leaves. I always thought you needed lots of different sizes of brushes to get the different sizes of lines and shapes. Obviously not. So I’m spending a lot of time practicing and re-watching this video very very helpful to me. thank you
Ah Leslie I am so pleased this has been helpful. I often paint an entire piece in one brush because they can be so versatile
this video is so helpful in showing how you can get so many different lines/shapes from just one brush! I have been to a few beginners classes and never once have they focused on control of your brush strokes. Thanks Harriet xx
You are so welcome Eddie!
I too have watched soooo many beginner water colour tutorials and yours gave to be the best. Thank you so so much for well structured and clearly delivered information . no drama just wonderful teaching thanks again RAEWYN
Ah thank you so much
Thank you for an absolutely brilliant set of lessons! The best I've ever taken, by far.
Wow, thank you!
This. Is. Amazing. Just the tutorial style I have been searching for!!! Thank you! :)
Glad it was helpful!
The detail in your tutorials is amazing. I found you a couple of weeks ago through summer retreat classes. I am a beginner and I have already your botanical book and preordered the new one. Would really love to learn more re. Sketching and painting cottages or buildings.
Thanks so much Paula, welcome to my channel!
Your videos are one of the most in-depth beginner watercolor tutorials there are. Glad to stumbled on your IG and CZcams accounts today! Thanks a million from a new subscriber here in the Philippines!
Thank you so much Joan I am so grateful that you've found me!
Great logical and fun instruction. Slow enough to catch the drift of the idea. Not so fast that things just magically appear on the page. Calligraphy-like strokes for sure! Just got your book “Painting Watercolour Botanicals”. It’s sooooo helpful. So glad I found you.
Ah wonderful Debra!
Your book arrived today....love, love, love it, its Easter weekend, taking it away with my paints will keep practicing, want to master watercolour this time, found your tutorial on youtube today also, very clear explanation, I cannot thankyou enough, feel I am going to master it this time around, have been trying books by different artist, and really gel with your way of teaching. Big thanks from Australia.
Thanks so much Patricia!
I have been enjoying watching these beginner tutorials. I just decided in November 2020 to try to take up watercolor as a hobby. I love art. I actually took up photography a few years ago (photographing flowers and garden landscapes) so that I could use my photos to paint flowers and landscapes. Long story, ended up loving the photography time and put aside the idea of painting until now. What a surprise to find that when I gave it a try, I was a disaster. Too much water, or muddiness . . . not able to let things be but trying to make something right while the paint was still wet . . . well you know. Then I found your tutorials on how to paint flowers, and now these real beginner ones! Well, I can't be more delighted. I was able to paint 3 good-looking tulips after watching your video. Wow! I was so proud. Now I am watching these basic beginner episodes and I will be happily following you on CZcams. Thanks so much! BTW -- it is especially instructive watching you because I am also left-handed and it is easier somehow to watch another left-handed person teach brushstrokes, etc.
Oh jean this is amazing! I’m so glad you are getting on well with watercolour now!
Awesome instructions
Glad you think so!
Good stuff Harriet and beautifully accompanied by the Blackbird. Thanks very much.x
Thanks David!
I don't know if it's just me, but I (a right-handed person) find it much easier to mirror your C and S curves, so I don't have to push the brush. I practised and practised until I just said to myself: Wait a minute, let's try it the other way round, et voilà, much better.
And before I forget: I love your videos! I had your book before I found your channel here, and the visual demonstrations compliment it so nicely. Your way of explaining is so calm and motivating. I really like it!
That makes a lot of sense as I'm left handed!
Exactly the lesson I needed. Just took up watercolors a couple of weeks ago. Seem to be gravitating toward botanicals so this is perfect. Looking forward to more of your lessons.
Thanks!
New at this! Thanks for the tutorial! Best I’ve seen!
Glad it was helpful!
So great to see the different brushstrokes in detail. I really like the way you teach and the video is great quality 👍Jo xx
Thanks so much Jo!
very helpful to see it done, I have the book but watching you really helps! Thanks! Have a great weekend!
Hi Lawrence, Yes I always find having someone actually demonstrate in front of me is my preferred method of learning
@@deWintonPaperCo So funny... I was confused at your reply at first....Actually it's my husbands google acct. I am Shelley LOL! I will sign my name next time;-))
Hello from Ukraine! I’ve just ordered your book on a bookdepository and looking forward to star painting with you! Thank you for your CZcams lessons! It’s very interesting to me to hear and learn how some one explain not in the same way like I learned a while ago:)
Thanks so much Pomona!
Just ordered my both of your books! I’ve learned so much from you! Thank you 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Fantásticos vídeos para iniciarse en la acuarela, muchas gracias por compartirlos! Tengo que mejorar las terminaciones de la C porque casi siempre se me abren las cerdas del pincel y no puedo acabarla finita. Tendré que practicar más y comprarme un buen 🖌
Thank you!
You are really a good teacher. Love each episode♥️
Thanks so much Kathleen!
This is really, really good! Excellent video and photography as well. These are really good daily practice exercises too!
Glad you think so! Thanks so much for watching
Thank you! I am learning so much! You are a very good teacher.
Thank you Kirsten!
Thank you! It was vers usefull!
So glad you’ve found it helpful Marcsi!
Agree with others, and your response to them - I've been working from the book and did fine - but actually seeing you do it on video is much more helpful!
Ah that's fantastic news. I'm really glad this is adding some value to your experience.
Really fab video, throughly enjoyed it and as a total beginner it was really pleasing to see my C form!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks
Welcome
Fantastic, I am really enjoying these tutorials.
T 😀
Thanks so much!
I have been longing for this kind of lesson! I have been so frustrated watching so many artists only to fail myself. Your simple teaching has given me HOPE! I actually was successful at painting a tulip leaf with your brush strokes.
Where can I purchase those brushes in the US?
Ah wonderful stuff Barbara. I’m not entirely sure where in the USA has those brushes but it would be good to just google the brand : pro arte master stroke and see what comes up
I would imagine a "backwards" C or S curve would be valuable to practice as well? Flora will be my starting point (via your book I'm pleased to say), but I also love fauna--I can imagine the thin-thick-thin would be wonderful for feather, fur, and scale variations. Oh the possibilities ;-).
Yes it's good to become as agile with the brush as possible moving forward...
Oh the possibilities indeed! Can I have another life or two, please?
Harriet thank you for this class. I have tried to order the Pro Arte brushes, but for the time being they are not shipping to the US (I guess bc of the pandemic). So, I will make do with what I can get for now.
Ah yes this is proving a bit of a problem getting supplies in the us.
Thank you so much for these. I now need to practice these exercises on the various papers I've bought, to work out how the watercolours behave when I use them. I think I've confused myself by using different papers. It seems results are quite often very different because of how much water is applied and then absorbed or sits on the surface?
You got this! We're launching a series of quick fix tutorials from this saturday to help look at specific issues like this.
@@deWintonPaperCo Fabulous :) Thank You
Fantastic! Thank you so very much!
So glad it was helpful!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
What a blessing to have found you. Thank you. I want to paint a meadow scene with a few flowers, 2 butterflies. Can you direct me to some painting compositions. Which come first the objects or the background? Thank you
We’ve got quite a few things like that on the channel. Just search for it in the channel search function
@@deWintonPaperCo Thank you. After looking through the playlists I think I've found what I need. 🙂
Thank you very much🌹😍
You're welcome 😊
thank you for this beautiful tutorial! I am having some trouble with the c and S curves; my bristles splay out on the transition from thick to thin and give a frayed appearance to the thin ends of my curves. Does anyone have any tips for preventing this?
Have a look at my Watercolour Quick Fix play list
de Winton Paper Co. thank you I will!
Grazie mille!! ❤️
You're welcome!
Really useful video x
thanks Jane!
I have the hardest time controlling the brush at the end of the stroke!
Yes it's all about practise for this!
Hello
I love your videos
Where can i buy the book you mention on this video and... have you got part 4 for beginners
Thank you so much!!
Hi Maria. The playlist ‘watercolour painting for beginners’ has all the beginner tutorials in order. Visit the episode notes for links to buy my book from my Etsy store
Do the brushes need to be specific for watercolours? I have acrylic brushes
Try them and see, I'm sure they will be fine.
Dear Harriet, can you give me, please, the trademark of you brush, I would like to see if I can buy in France. Otherwise, I've seen that you are selling some brush on the site, are they the same you are using ? Thank you very much for all videos you share with us. It's really lovely.
Hi karima, I mainly use Pro Arte Brushes in these videos. In my kits I sell Major Brushes whihc are a similar type of brush but a different brand.