I realize this demo is 4 years old but of all the paintings I’ve watched you create this one is the most beautiful to my eyes. Love the experiment with colors instead of a slavish adherence to the photo. Bravo!

I know this is an old video, but maybe someone in the thread can use this tip: if u want a sharp edge/straight line to create contrast with the soft edges, simply lay a scrap piece of watercolor paper down next to the line/stroke/area u r painting. U can do this over painted areas, even mildly damp ones. I typically have a 5”x 8” (approximately) piece I cut & keep close by to test colors on before I apply paint to my art now & then when color is important. So i also use that piece for my straight edge. Its like putting tape down, but quicker & no adhesive messing up ur painted surface. Works like a charm!! A stroke of paint, lift the scrap paper away & boom 💥 a perfect hard edge. U can also use this trick with clean water on ur brush in place of paint to remove color while maintaining that hard edge. Remember: Warm colors protrude & cool colors recede. Experiment with this color theory & watch how it enhances the illusion of depth. For the record, every tip I share came from another painter sharing along the way. Just passing it on! Thank u for the content. Still watching in 2022……Missouri, U.S.A. Stay well my friends ✌🏻🎨

@mashteeh8691

Жыл бұрын

What a brilliant tip! Thank you so much for passing on that wisdom. So very helpful to collect ideas and tips from other artists and enthusiasts, things that can add to ones repertoire of skills and tools. You never know, you might just have helped an artist create a wonderful piece thanks to your contribution. Thanks again and greetings from New Zealand 👋

@friedricengravy6646

Жыл бұрын

@@mashteeh8691 Oh wow!!! U made my day. Thank u, for the kind words & for taking the time to say so. I really appreciate both. So happy u found this to b helpful. The best to u & urs.

I appreciate seeing how the painting seems to flow through your brush and how freely you move from place to place- very relaxing and very revealing!

Lovely to see how your colour sense is developing. Your experiments are a good reminder that the way we perceive things in terms of colour is not absolute, it is totally relative. A colour can appear what it really isn't. It blows up all your logic circuits sometimes! Thanks for yet another thought provoking video.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you ^_^ Yes - everything is the way it's perceived. And it can be perceived multiple (probably infinite) ways! (:

Liron, I enjoyed how you took us through the whole process. I'll be revisiting this video again. Can't wait for your next video.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear ^_^ Thank you I'm really pleased with how this one turned out! Hope to do more of similar quality.

I really like that you do this kind of videos - commenting what you do and especially why you do it. this is what I really miss in other watercolour videos, and what brings most for learning watercolour.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm trying to make more and more videos like this, where there's the most educational, technial value (:

Hello Liron, thanks for the demonstration. It's a while since I have seen your work and I can really see a great improvement due to your hard work and logical approach to your painting. I loved the way you handle the colours and cool and warm tones and wet on wet. It gives hope to people to stick at it and keep painting! Great job!

You are such a great teacher. As I teach, I am learning so much. The comment of not mixing Thalo and Brnt Sienna together does not make the best gray is a ding dong! I use these together all the time and get the most muddy look. Thank you! And so much more!

This is one of your best videos so far. Great work, very helpful to see the process and hear what you're thinking as you work.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^ Really put my everything into this process. Really happy it shows, and helps!

Really liked how your painting had a better sense of temperature than the reference! Really good demo, Thank you :)

I see a painting in your pallet. It's feels beautiful, mix of colours.

I love the style of your painting. It is so lively. ( I am only beginning watercolour and still trying to get over the fact that blue and yellow don’t make green. In my world it often makes mud!) I don’t know if you are familiar with the work of Asuman and Atanur Dogan. They also use lots of colour in their paintings both architectural and portraiture. I watch a lot of videos of other artists including Steve’s at Mind of Watercolour also Angela Fehr and many other artists but I am drawn to the way that you use so much colour and how it makes your work look so interesting and different. Thank you for sharing this video. I found the commentary particularly helpful in understanding your thought processes whilst executing this piece and has given me a lot to think about.

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Anna! ^_^ So happy you find my style interesting, and that the teaching approach helps you. I have many new tutorials that are narrated real time, that I think you'll also find helpful (:

I saw this video. I really enjoyed it and it is pushing me to try watercolors which I abandoned for some time. Your videos are really inspirational. Thanks Liron. Please keep on coming!

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear this! (: Thank you ^_^

Thank you fopr this lesson. I find your inputs on color values very inspiring. I can only wish that someday I'll get that knowldge to my paintings as well :))

Beautiful piece Liron! You have encouraged me to try experimenting with shadows now! I do find that I tend to gravitate towards cooler tones myself it's very interesting to see the way you mix warm and cool colours and just let them blend in the same shadow.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear, Nathan! (: Experimentation really helps me with my growth. I used to use only grays and blues for shadows. But now I slowly start to figure out what will work, and where. Thank you ^_^

Beautiful! I love it Liron and Arches Rough is fast my new favorite paper! I have a pad and a half of CP-no problems, but that rough-rather Eastern-Indian texture appeals to me more.. dry brush and keeping whites-very helpful for a beginner. I am settling some things and I hope after I move to start your drawing course. It will be just a little while.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ And good luck with the move!! I know it's challenging!

I really enjoyed watching this video. Your color selection is great and draws the eye into the arch to explore what’s beyond. Always interesting!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^ This one connected really well for me!

Thank you Liron, loved this video. Very instructive. I'm really trying to get to the next level in watercolour, and I love that you show from start to finish how you achieve your paintings. I'm finding your content very helpful.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear ^_^ I'm trying to show and explain as much of the process as possible. There are so many nuances! Thank you (:

Very nice and very loose. Love the warm and cool playing off of each other..

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ^_^ Happy you like it

Really like this; great colors and blending-great feel

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ^_^

Enjoyed the video and the demo, Liron!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Really happy to hear ^_^ I love how this one turned out over all!

Thanks for sharing your talent. Your treatment of the subject really honors the medium. The process was very well executed. Learned a lot-thank you.

Please do more of these I learned so much thank you

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ Really happy to hear! Will do more

This was a fabulous tutorial! Allowing colors to mix on paper has really changed the mood and feeling of your paintings! Bravo! Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent!

Loved this painting. Learned a lot. Will watch it again to learn more.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear ^_^ Than you so much!

I like the shadow, perfect !!!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^ This painting really clicked for me!

Beautiful!

Amazing work, thank you for the video. You are a talented artist.

Love this video and the subject is really interesting. Thanks

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^ Really happy to hear!

This is one of my favs!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^ I got it to look just like I wanted!

looks good liron

Thank you for sharing. I wish you could have spoken more about warm and cool colors, however.

Great video, and thanks for sharing the drawing with a lot of comments too :) 👍

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear this is helpful ^_^ Thank you!

Great instruction, thanks!

I love your teaching, and I know this is an old video, maybe you have newer one on warm and cool, but in this one you didn't really explain WHY, or the reason, to use warm and coos, like you used here, and what they do to the eye? Do you have one that explains it more? Thanks

@LironYan

25 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊🙏🏼 I actually have posted such a vid quite recently: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaqmr6mohrKTns4.htmlsi=Y4b3Y8YexjWT1HEc Let me know if it helped (:

What WONDERFUL COMMUNUICATOR And educator!!!!!

That painting looked like a beautiful abstract composition when you had it falf finished and it looked great. It still. Is a great painting when it looked nearly finished. Mary from Toronto

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I agree ^_^ It's actually the big shapes that make this one work (as usually happens in painting). So the previous stages were also pretty much "complete" (;

Thanks, enjoying this.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you (: Really happy to hear!

That's look nice for real.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ This one really clicked for me!

Nice! I enjoy a lot of color in whatever I do artistically, so it's nice to see it in washes here to create the piece, right up my alley -- you've been most helpful along my discovery of finally opening up to watercolor. Thanks! ;)

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear ^_^ Colors are great fun! Thank you (:

Really love this painting accomplished by you sir .And is beautiful and hopefully will paint it myself and to my favorites I. My list. Thanks again for your great eye and commentary 🙏 💙

@LironYan

Ай бұрын

So happy it was helpful my friend 🙏😊 I also received your emails - will try painting a bamboo forest scene for you in the future (:

Thanks, Liron. This was a great video. I loved how it turned out. Mistakes and experiments are the best teachers. Nothing is ever wasted (time and materials). We always come away from every effort with something useful. I use Cotman paints and find them very good. As you pointed out, good paper is ESSENTIAL. Nothing works on crappy paper!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much (: Happy you like this one!

amazing!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^

always good my friend 👊👊👊

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ^_^

I love this painting, and you're so right about blue shadows! I kind of hadn't consciously seen it, and it's conventional thinking, right, but why be conventional??! So, I don't think you should go too much into realism, my feeling is that if you paint, say, a horse: everyone knows what a horse looks like. So what's the point? Free colour work like this one brings something new to the subject. So: that's my take, anyway ☺ Be free!

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

I love your take! (: Sometimes I'll take an even looser approach. Depending on my mood (;

I really like this painting.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ I'm very pleased with it too!

Hi Liron I have been following your channel ,appreciate your info while you paint and draw . I would like to now the #lead you use .i use#7 mechanicalit’s hard to erase What# lead should I try?

Thanks for that great video, Liron. What do you think of sketching with ink, as i find easier to keep the main shapes that way, or inking some of the details, like wall junctions, on third phase? Cheers, Frederic

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

I agree, pen and ink can be a little easier in that sense (: I choose to work with pencil because it suits my desired watercolor style, which is more natural and less lines-based. But I do have a warm spot in me for pen sketching, urban sketching and incorporating watercolor into those sketches.

u r the best

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ^_^

Great painting 👏Whats the name of the watercolour artist from Israel you mentioned thta gets a lot of detail in the first wash? Your brush looks good, what is it? Black velvet? What size and are they expensive?

Beautiful, is my city Oviedo, Arco San Vicente, thanks

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! ^_^ Thank you for letting me know (: Looks like a beautiful place to visit and paint!

Hellow Liron, as a fellow watercolor artist! meaning i like to paint in that medium, the best! I dicovered that there is no set "law," hat you can"t mix the mediums! James Guerny a well known artist uses casine, watercolor, chalk, what ever vgives him the effect he wants. so if someone says you have to just use watercolor paints only, tell him to go eat a frog!

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Haha - I love James Gurney 😁 I too believe that you can use whatever you want, as long as it helps you achieve your artistic vision!

Thanks for this topic homie. Somehow it tied everything I know I already knew, but you my friend, made it all click and fall into place... quick thought: Ilya Ibryaev? (probably butchered the name but hopefully it's close enough) OK. see u next show

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ So happy to hear. And you got his name right! I went and googled him - he has some beautiful artworks!

Liron, I just LOVE this tutorial! As a beginner, I find it difficult to determine the colors of my initial wash. For example, if I looked at this reference photo, I would tend to stick with the colors that I see, i.e., burnt sienna, buff titanium, cobalt blu, etc. How do you choose to incorporate winsor blue, carbazol violet, etc. into the painting? Thank you so much.

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏼 I decide in advance what my three primaries are going to be. I then think of it in terms of warms and cools. Where I “feel” it should be cool, I use blue. Where it’s sunny - yellow. And much of it is random 😉🎨 Don’t overthink! Try and then see how you feel about the result.

@barbaraverser1056

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, yes, I tend to overthink lots of things. I have since watched and loved many of your videos, and I heard you say in at least one of those, that choosing colors is intuitive. I will indeed try it. Thank you so much for sharing your talent.

Love u 👌

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

😊🙏🏼

nice going

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you (:

היי לירון :) Hi Liron Thanks very much for this video, really enjoyed it and learned a lot from seeing the whole process. can you please remind again which brushes you're using and where you got them? They seem like natural hair, correct? I'm starting out with watercolors and I feel like I'm missing out on a lot using only synthetics... Thanks! :)

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ^_^ Sure thing! I'm using Silver Black Velvet, sizes 8 and 12. I got them here (affiliate link), as a part of this pack: amzn.to/2JlVtCQ The size 4 was way too small for me, but the other two are great! And yes - synthetics aren't enough at times (: I hope this helps!

@talisman006

6 жыл бұрын

תודה רבה!! ^_^

Please sir make a video about watercolour painting in outdoor.

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Will do one in the near future! 😊

I'm not sure if you said anything about this, but did you mean to straighten the buildings vertically, leaving out that slight tipped angle that the camera usually does in these kinds of photos?

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, I usually try to straighten them. I look at these lines as vertical, and treat them that way too ^_^ That's actually a great observation. The reason I do it that way is that if I were there in real life, the skewing would indeed not occur.

O men you are awesome

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you ^_^

Hi Liron what paints did you use for this project

@LironYan

2 жыл бұрын

I believe these are the Daniel Smith Introductory set, this one: amzn.to/32dm1Wq I love using primary colors and basing my work on a cool and warm version of each of them. Hope this helps 😊🙏🏼

I am having trouble keeping my paint wet because I live at a high altitude so areas dry quickly and I have trouble lifting paint and my paint dries in my palette to bricks overnight. Any suggestions for me Thanks

@fredericdeleporte2239

6 жыл бұрын

I think you can improve it trying différent papers. If you work wet on wet, you can try to saturate your paper with water, let it soak a few minutes and saturate it again. For the palette, i guess the only way is to make larger amounts of mixture. Good luck ! Cheers . Frederic

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

You've received some good suggestions ^_^ I would also add: 1. Try using small amounts of paint out of the tube, if possible - instead of filling up a palette. 2. A few minutes before you start painting, spray some water on your palette. It will slowly reawaken the paints and prepare them for painting. 3. Sometimes different regions can require different approaches. You may HAVE to paint a little faster than others. See this as a blessing in disguise (; I hope this helps!

@pattitaylor7642

6 жыл бұрын

Liron Yanconsky thank. You that is what I have been doing so I will continue thanks for answering my query

What is that artist you mention at 27:05 (Israeli watercolour artist who gets a lot of detail in his first wash)?

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Marek Yanai, here's a great video of his: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4Z4tsaJccaamso.html Hope you like it (:

@elsagrace3893

6 жыл бұрын

Get realistic but don’t be a photograph copier. That is so boring. Art like that turns me off immediately and it is so obvious. Values are so important to master and difficult for me. My paintings alternate between 3 pale values or 3 garishly dark values. Trying to find balance and expand the range.

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

@elsa Grace Unsure if you refer to Marek's work - but it's actually highly impressionistic (: I wouldn't say he is a photograph copier at all. He interprets things as he sees them (I saw him working live and it was quite a spectacle to watch).

oviedo, asturias

I WANT TO SEE YOU ON IGTV!!! Haha

@LironYan

6 жыл бұрын

Haha really hustling there, trying to post every day! Thank you ^_^

😍😍😍🙃🙃

That has to be Tzfat. Right?

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, I forgot where it was - but definitely not in Israel 😅 I believe somewhere in Italy. Wish we had something like that here!

@chayita7

5 жыл бұрын

@@LironYan Thanks for replying to my reply. It's just that I have a Tzfat phobia. Anyway, nothing is better than here. Be well.

Hi Liron, how are you? I know this comment is 2 years too late, but I'm hoping you can give me some feedback. I'm currently working on a painting and I'd decided on a colour palette of soft mint green and indigo - both cool colours. But something seems missing. I'm wondering if it's possible to create a successful painting using only cool or only warm colours. What would you advise? I tried introducing alizarin but still feel like I'm not nailing it. Can't quite put my finger on it 😞

@LironYan

3 жыл бұрын

Great question! 😊🙏🏼 Actually, it should definitely be possible - there are no limits in my opinion! The painting will simply have a very particular feel to it, depending on the colors you choose. The Alizarin may be too strong a contrast to the green and indigo - I would instead try an orange and see how that works (it's a nice complementary to blues and greens). But it can be done, I've painting very extreme combos of green and red and it can work. Let me know how it goes! And feel free to email me at Liron@Lironyan.com if you want me to look at the painting (:

@safi456

3 жыл бұрын

@@LironYan Thanks so much. I'll definitely show it to you once I'm finished.

יךןשלים של זהב?

@LironYan

5 жыл бұрын

לא, לדעתי זה במרוקו (:

The painting came out superb but unfortunately, There was no specific input on how to use warm and cool colours

Covering the white highlights destroys the whole painting. This is a huge mistake. Stop doing it.😡😡😡

Hi Liron, I did it, thank you so much and you can see my version here instagram.com/p/CQ6Z0h-j0Xv/?