This is awesome!

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Beauty 💖

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you, very helpful! ❤

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. I’m so glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much, I have learned a lot ❤

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

I’m so glad it’s been helpful!

I loved seeing the painting you did for me in this video, Becky!! So interesting!! I love the Bokah technique!

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Ella. I love that painting too. Thanks so much for commissioning me for such a meaningful painting!

Wowee! Fabewluss!!!!!!!

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

😀 Thank you so much!

I was already familiar with bokeh, but not your artwork. You are an excellent artist!

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Love the Christmas one for Bokeh ..Thankyou !

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Bokeh is so fun!

Beautiful work on those big paintings! I love the looks, but I still don’t get how to do the backgrounds. So with the dark, the idea is to use tape or something to mask everything off and then use thick paint to cover it all? I love dark backgrounds but getting the paint dark enough has been a challenge for me. I’m bummed that the camera is so zoomed in on most of the paintings, I can’t tell how the background looks with the overall painting 😢

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I was bummed the camera was so zoomed in too, but I couldn’t figure out how to change it. I’m only about 4 videos in on editing in any way more than just taking out pieces of the video. I’ve since learned how to do that, but sadly it’s too late for this video. I don’t always just tape over the main subject on dark paintings. If it’s a very large painting, I paint around the main object. I have occasionally painted dark around more complex paintings. It takes time and care and good thick paint. I hope that you will experiment and still learn from what you saw.

Me fascina❤❤❤❤❤

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

10 ай бұрын

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That's so lovely. Now this is something I really want to try. I can't remember anyone mentioning this(Bokeh) before. Thank you so much.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

It’s pretty fun! I hope you love it.

Very nice. I love bokah and use it a lot in my Christmas/Winter themed paintings. I think it's worth noting for anyone seeing this, that some pigments don't lift as well as others, or are more staining. Experimenting is half the fun though! Good stuff. :)

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

You are so right. I have used a magic eraser a time or two. I do have a video about just backgrounds and if I remember correctly I did mention that in it.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! True words.

They are all really useful. How did you mask the Christmas bauble?

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

I used masking tape, then cut around it with a knife.

Do you ever start with the background or do you always add it after painting the main subject?

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

11 ай бұрын

I sometimes do the background as I go along but I seldom do the background first. I don’t always know exactly which colors I will end up with and so doing the background first doesn’t always seem practical.

I don't get how you paint the dark background without getting into the flowers or whatever detailed objects in the foreground. Do you use liquid mask over the painted objects? If you can't guess, I'm a newbee.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

When it is a more complex piece, I use a small brush for the small background areas. Even though it’s not an all black background I would do it the same way as I did the little spaces between the grapes in this video. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4SomKqCc6_Nm9o.html

When you did the bauble you kept saying bouquet as in flowers did you mean bokah, I was confused

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

I meant bokeh which I understand is pronounced bouquet.

What tape did you use? Masking tape? I thought it would lift the color off.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

Artists masking tape. You can find the exact kind in the comments.

@ginabina4704

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I would love to see a tutorial on the lily at 1:49. The light you have, and that that is just amazing.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your input. It is one of my favorite paintings.

Which of these 3 backgrounds so you think you would find the most useful?

@tenkalau2930

10 ай бұрын

I wanted to know how to create those circles since long time ago. I saw some watercolor paintings with these stunning background circles and I had tried hard to recreate it. However, still I failed after trying many different ways. I will definitely try to use your method. Thanks so much for showing us this trick.

@thewatercolorclassroom-bec7040

10 ай бұрын

@@tenkalau2930 you’re welcome!