Want to Instantly Improve in Watercolor Painting? ▶︎ Stop doing these 3 things!

Your videos are very inspiring!

Just pausing to say, this is the second vid of yours that Ive seen and Im so stoked! Great info! Also paused to say, the way you say "NO" then slightly smiled when talking about not trying to copy the reference photos about did me in. 😄 It was like a stern but loving "No" from a good friend or family member.

😅great advice. First time I heard of you, but very informative. Thank you, gracias

I'm about to paint my ducks in a pond, using 4-5 reference photos. I have some close ups that capture the birds flapping wings, preening, or digging bugs from the water. Other refs have bigger scene context or show water better. I want to put all this activity in while not skewing my angle of vision or making goofs in the lighting. One photo captures golden light just before sunset. I want to be consistent. A tutorial on this would be wonderful. Meanwhile I plan to write myself notes on this, how to blend or maintain lighting, which ref photo will be my light direction and time of day. Love your suggestions of writing it down ahead of time.

If you watch on 1.75 speed, Matthew talks at the speed of a normal person. The content is great, it just needs sped up.

This is truly a great help!! Thank you, Matthew 💜

Such good advice!

Matt, your tips are priceless. You are bringing up things many videos, books, and instructors ignore. Thank you!

Brilliant advice and a total game changer for me. Thank you!!

Some great advice, as always 👍 I particularly agree with interpreting a scene. Indeed, I always try to tell a story in some fashion, to lift an artwork from being merely a representational image.

It is SO true that it's hard to slow down, wanting the painting to look like something faster. But it definitely pays off pausing and allowing each step to happen naturally. All the difference in the world!

Grazie M. White!!! Sei davvero molto bravo nelle spiegazioni!!!!!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

👍 👍 👍

Thanks a lot for your lesson

Your so helpful and so additive to watch and so relaxing , you make me want to paint more 😃 thank you ❤️

Needed to hear this, thanks! :)

Thank you for the encouragement. Helps a lot

Only just found you Matthew in the last few months and so pleased I have. What’s neutral tint please?

Thank you for this video. Very helpful

Brilliant advice, great video. Thank you very much.

Trovo questo suo video meraviglioso,onesto ed altruista o,istruttivo e dettato dal cuore.complimenti,grazie..

Started teaching myself how to WC paint, 4 years ago; mostly by watching tutorials such as this. I'm constantly learning new things and my paintings are improving. Thank you for this lesson, hope to see more of you!

Thank you for you great tips. I am struggling with painting the Sonoran desert, the cacti, the mountains etc. If you could do a demonstration of that it would be great. Thank you again.

Thank you! So glad to have found your channel!

Thank you for this terrific advice. Of all the wc YTs I watch this one really helps so much!

Very good tutorial! Thank you for these spot on advice!

I struggle with knowing how to paint each wash.. What if the light values are dry when you come to do the mid tones for example? Cheers!

Thank you Matthew! So helpful this. And encouraging

Brilliant!

شكراً كثيراً لك….انت ملهم بحق…اود سؤالك اذا كان هناك عائد مادي من الرسم بالالوان المائيه….أعني هل يمكن بيعها مثل لوحات الاكريلك والزيت ام هي فقط للمتعه؟

Thanks the beautiful presentation of such great fruitful painting tips. Greetings from Egypt <3

👍very good tips

Really feel encouraged to improve my newly acquired hobby BUT, I'm still looking out for that elusive tutorial video on how
to be less CLUMSY in general, I'm lol-ing now but it's quite frustrating

Watching your video a 3rd time to "Ravele's Bolero", it works! I just discovered your video's, very structured, and helpful, thanks.

Do you already have a video of knowing how much water to add to the paper so that it doesn’t bleed too much or get caterpillars?

As a whole I think painting is a game of strategies playing together and being chosen or ruled out. Even in oils, where you can make a jolly mud out of painting. I think drawing is a basic tool that really helps you out of a mess.

Reference photos get WAY too much attention in the art world. I love photography. So much, that I went to a photography school. But I mainly use references for getting composition right, and for getting my tones right. It’s fun though, to take a really bad photo you’ve taken, and adding in light and shadows…and sometimes a bear! Lol! Your lessons are so great! I’m having to binge watch you again! - Messy Mendy 🖌🙏🏻👩🏻‍🎨

Thanks, excellent

Thank you so much for these tips! You were able to point out some of my biggest issues right now and I can’t wait to work on them.

Love your tips. Mine paintings were in need of some more sophistication.I will try it on. Thanks Mathew.

Very interesting and useful. Thank you for your time. Regards from Buenos Aires.

You are assuming that everyone watching this is painting realistic landscapes.Your tips are great for that, but there are many other genres of paint int.I know I'm impatient and I don't know if its even worth trying to master watercolor.Its extremely frustrating.I will watch more of your videos to try to learn, but I really lack patience so I don't know if it will work.I appreciate your experience and teaching.I never had any watercolor training, it has been hit or miss and learning from mistakes.

1. Painting a large section from one big puddle (no mixing of different colors)
2. Painting too fast (rushing to detail)
3. Literally copying your reference photo (make the composition yours, change things)

Mathew, come to al islam n success

Lol “Buy two of them”. Spot on. Thank you.

Anyone who describes art as “sophisticated” or “fresh” doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Would you like some “razzle-dazzle” with that? And for the love of god, please, stop using so many jump-cuts.

No. I do what I want.☺️😎