(Part 3) Top products from r/Watercolor

Rick Surowicz’s YouTube channel is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_RHSK_GEIoVTF-QNKDRvgA

I recommend his podia “Rocks and Water” was worth every penny: https://ricksurowicz.podia.com/rocks-and-water

Joseph Zbukvic’s book is amazing. It’s out of print, but you can find a pdf here: https://archive.org/details/ZbukvicCompressed

Ron Hazell’s Book Painting Water in Watercolor is a great resource for painting water: The Artist's Guide To Painting Water In Watercolor: 30+ Techniques https://www.amazon.com/dp/144033725X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1QpCDb00QVENB

Liron Yancosky’s YouTube is really good: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJff_wMy_bByb0jFTfw0xw

I love Tim Wilmot’s videos as well because he explains so well as he goes: https://www.youtube.com/user/timwilmot

Stan Miller hasn’t updated in a while, but his videos are really helpful: https://www.youtube.com/user/Stanleylestermiller

Aw, shucks. Thanks!

It helps me a ton that while I'm brand new at actually painting, I'm not new to drawing or even digital painting at all since I work as a 3D/Digital artist. So for me, getting used to watercolors has mostly just been about learning to control the paint itself.

As far as that goes, I think the biggest thing is just to try to see what other painters do as far as techniques go.

Someone posted this video here a while back and I found it absolutely incredible. Watching the way these guys work with their color and some of the methods they use to get the paint to do what they want, bleeding here or there or being tightly controlled there, was really helpful to me.

My teacher also had this book laying around while we were working, and it has an absolute ton of interesting ways to use different tools or approaches to get different effects. It also has a lot of nice step-by-step illustrations so you can see how the artist blocks in color and then refines detail.

I guess really the best advice I can give you is to experiment with different looks or styles. If you see something another watercolor artist does, don't be afraid to copy that effect or approach. By experimenting with different approaches, hopefully you'll find some tools that really speak to you as an artist that you can employ in your painting from there on out. And most of all, just enjoy it. I didn't set out with any real goals for this class or learning watercolors; I just did it as something fun and as a way to be creative for fun and not just for work again. So if you're enjoying yourself and trying different techniques that make you have fun with it, that's the most important thing you can be doing as a beginner if you ask me.

Feel free to shoot me some links to any pieces you'd like any critique or suggestions on, I'm no expert but I'd be happy to offer whatever advice I can.

Oh boy! Watercolor is beautiful and relatively easy to get started with, but the medium has a unique character that people find difficult to master. I find that instead of learning to control watercolor, I learn to work with it.

This book is one of my favorites, and youtube has a lot of excellent videos which will show you how to approach painting. Just search for 'Watercolor Speed Painting' or 'Watercolor Tutorials'.

If you have no experience with them, start with a cheap set of tube paints, and any heavy paper. Get a set of real-hair watercolor brushes, or a couple decent synthetic ones. Bigger is better! Get at least an 8 and a 12. If you want to buy better individual paints, start with a minimal palette like one of the two mentioned here.

Practice, practice, practice, and keep asking questions :) Good luck!

Off the top of my head......John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Wyeth family, Paul Klee, Whistler, O'Keefe, Eakins, JWM Turner are some of the most famous of the past and lots can be learned from them. Today it depends on what you are interested in....figures: I like Mary Whyte Charles Reid, Color:....Nita Leland, Steven Quiller, Anne Abgott, Jan Kunz... Techniques: Zoltan Zsabo, Gordon MacKenzie, Cheng Khee Chee, Jo Taylor....Abstract watercolor landscapes: Ann Blockley Miles Batt, Shirley Trevena, Jane E Jones. On youtube "Mind of Watercolor" & Yong Chen, Grant Fuller, ....................Here's a book that might help https://www.amazon.com/Watercolor-Masters-Legends-Techniques-Visionary/dp/1440335265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505169173&sr=8-1&keywords=watercolor+masters+and+legends.
So many watercolorists are amazing: John Salminen, Alvaro Castagnet & Alexey Chernigin

Hello, thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it! I used the Copic Multiliner 0.03 (black) for a majority of the outlines and the Pigma Micron 005 by Sakura of America for the thicker lines and on the bee. I linked them up just so you can see them however, I'd recommend going to your local art shop instead and purchasing the single pens for cheaper than what you can get online.

Your best bet is to search for an "embossing heat tool." Hair dryers push water around, whereas heat tools are higher temps with less strong winds.

Here's an example I found on Amazon. I don't have any particular recommendations, since mine is okay but not mindblowing :). I mostly use it for embossing and quickly making cards. For my artwork I get better blends if my colors fully air dry.

I recently got this book: http://www.amazon.com/Paint-Vibrant-Watercolors-Twelve-Lessons/dp/0062336320 and I found it pretty useful for the drawing tips/what colors to use. There's review of the book with some screenshots of the pages here so you can decide if it'll help you too: http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-you-can-paint-vibrant-watercolors-twelve-easy-lessons

I'm not against all books, I just think there are many out there that actually don't do much help at growing an artist.

I really enjoy this book because it's a great resource to see how this artist manipulates references in different styles

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Painting-Nature-Watercolor/dp/0823004996

reminds be of the art in this book, but yours is much more sophisticated

It is! I'm very new to watercolour and therefore have a lot of "technique learning" to do (I've never been an artsy person).
This is the book this particular exercise was painted from : https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1844489574/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YA332W7ZNAVTAHSHHNC0&dpPl=1&dpID=51vgfJGkPgL
And this is the one that helps me so much with trees : https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1844487792/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0M8HH7B6TK1GHD0HKJNK&dpPl=1&dpID=51bu-CvQjiL

From this one. I recommend it :)

Eric Sloane book "Skies and the Artist: How to Draw Clouds and Sunsets" would be a good start.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/048645102X

https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Richeson-38011-Student-Watercolor/dp/B001DKJNTK/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=yarka+semi-moist+watercolors&qid=1557858390&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Link to Amazon

I used the Master's Touch Wayercolor Half Pan set - https://www.hobbylobby.com/Art-Supplies/Painting-Supplies/Watercolor-Painting/Watercolor-Half-Pan-Set---48-Pieces/p/80881200

And then I followed it up with the Fabre Castell Watercolor Pencils - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OSMQVE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000OSMQVE&linkCode=as2&tag=hhfortstewart-20&linkId=aee3a925a72d84845e65ea167032eb7d

The Art of Urban Sketching!

Edited: formatting

We used this for the snow after everything was dry:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B2OKHU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_LQb.BbYDH99J2

I use this frisket masking fluid and apply it with this ruling pen