I really learn from your narration. Thank you for sharing your encouragement, talent and style with us. I SO agree about “feeling” color. Watching you demonstrate your mastery of shadows is soooo helpful. And I didn’t know there was such a thing as masking paper either! Thanks again! 😊

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great idea! Shadows are not grey! I so wish I could take weekly classes with you.

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Just say no to plain Greys!

Thank you so much for once again sharing your color discoveries with us. I have thought of “thinking in color” as like painting “intuitively” but I love how you describe “feeling colors” and that that is related to what’s happening in your life or how you are feeling at that moment. Very thought provoking…thank you.😊

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Hi Nancy! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your comments, I look forward to them. Very happy to find friends here online who share the same passions and interests in watercolor

Oh my stars! 🤩 I never saw frisket masking film before (not sure if that's brand your usung, couldn't find on your links) - what a game changer! I thoroughly enjoyed your dialogue and production. Appreciate your generosity in sharing - can't wait to try some of these methods! Thank you!

@watercolorpour

3 ай бұрын

Oh thank you!

I love your style! And you are not alone in feeling colors. I feel them and it is so hard to describe to others. I’m an art teacher and sometimes I forget most others don’t feel colors so sometimes I have students looking at me in very strange ways. 😊

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

me too! So happy to know I am not alone

Once again you totally captured my attention. Now I must drop my waterlilies studies and give this a try. You’re painting is beautiful and technique is fascinating. I’ve always dismissed black backgrounds because most of the time they’re just too flat. However you seem to have solved this issue. Will the technique work with other very dark backgrounds? And will it work with other black shades? I also love how you pulled the paint into the flower. You’re very generous to share your secrets. I look forward to attempting this morning. Thanks so much💕

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Good morning, each pigment deserves its own discovery time, I recommend painting 4" x 6" studies, using the different paints you have on hand, this is where many colors and combinations can be unlocked, and we can really level up our understanding of them. I think this method would work best with transparent colors as they tend to blend together better. Would love to hear if you discover and colors to recommend.

How lovely! Thank you so much for sharing!

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Very lovely 😊

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Beautiful

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

What a cool idea. Love it and will have to try it! And I absolutely "feel" my colours! :)

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

So good to know I’m not the only one ❤️❤️❤️

Love it💖

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Lovely!

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

thank you! Do you have a favorite black or color mix to use in dark backgrounds?

@voliabrandaolaveneremachad7849

Жыл бұрын

@@watercolorpour no, not yet… I’m looking for recommendations! I haven’t done any dark background yet but I’d love to, so I’m trying to learn a bit before trying…

Somehow I have never noticed this before (or just didn’t realize ) … left handed!

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

yes! 😂😉

Your timing! Should be getting my Janes Black tomorrow. I DO normally mix my own..but lately have been doing more and more black backgrounds..and just needing it more, while not mixing QUITE enough… Also..having something like this that’s great for improvisation, having it right at my fingertips ready to go… Also, want to try this paint on my xuan paper, using it instead of ink that, in my opinion, just makes a really dull night sky behind my bunnies (for Fall Festival next month). Last year, my attempts with western paints that were MUCH too granulated (specifically, the only black I had and added to some UM..PBk11) ended up tearing holes in my paper. That was also before I’d perfected my “brush water technique” (I add some traditional mediums that help the paint both glide above and “stick” to the paper-enabling me to use at least MOST western paints on xuan paper..with some exceptions, including most heavily granulating paints. The paper is just too delicate). My “mad scientist” bestie is coming over to “borrow” a pan of this black..AND she’s going to take the pan of PB31 I got a few days ago…NO offense to Gregory..it’s just too low-tinting and gritty for me. Liz is going to try, somehow-it’s in a pan and not easily wet..but..she’s going to try and grind it down more. We ARE going to get more of the PB33 pigment from him though..we’re still obsessed and Liz has graciously volunteered to mull. My eldest, who I barely had enough to send her 1/4 pan…has already texted us begging us to save some for her. I love this painting! I don’t think I’m brave enough to attempt a floral with this background. I saw the incredible Zeze Lai on DS’s website who did MANY Red florals with the black background..absolutely STUNNING! Watching her in a video…I just can’t wrap my head around the skill and vision needed to do what she does.. Then again, you painting effects me the same…I started painting just 13-14 yrs ago..in a very different style..spending several years learning calligraphy before my tutor “allowed” me to start using paint. (Yes, I “cheated”, but even 10k miles away..or however far Chengdu is, the wrath of an 80-something Chinese grandmother struck fear in my 50-something heart. My Dr Kitty Leela snitched on me one time by proudly walking by carrying an attempt at Bamboo…Leela is obsessed with Chinese ink..the highest quality is imbued with Chinese TCM Herbs & flower essences. She doesn’t try and eat it, it’s like catnip to her and she’ll roll on, carry around, even sleep with pieces of xuan with dry ink. My bamboo attempt, I had laying on the far side of the table, out of Zoom camera reach..until she decided to pick it up and walk right in front of my iPad as I talked to Lili. 😂. I said she was showing off her skill…and then learned a new Chinese expletive, and got another lecture on learning the strokes and the reason they teach it the way they do. She then complimented Leela on “her” painting, in Chinese..and Leela knocked over my iPad as she happily plopped down on top of HER art. I have a strange cat) Anyways, I only started playing with Western watercolor 2 years ago after my son died. He had introduced me to Lili and got me back into creating. But, I’ve never had any “formal” training, except for Lili, and still prefer to learn on my own by trial and error. Unfortunately, I’ve had a lot of health issues that interfere with painting…BUT, these days, I have my daughter and Liz who drag me back into it, thankfully. And Lili..although I only speak to her a few times a year during family celebrations. She’s now in her late 90’s and has her own health issues. But..next Month..or the first of Oct, when her granddaughter turns on WeChat for our usual chat for Mid-Autumn Festival..I’m HOPING to finally have a bunny painting ready to show her. 😁. (This time with no holes in my night sky or moon…😂)

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

What a lovely letter to wake to, your writing is so refreshing as I can easily follow along, with my imagination picturing Leela prancing about across your art space helping herself to supplies and including herself in video meetings. My dog, Cowboy, also likes to interrupt my online meetings and recordings, they are such a sweet addition to our art journeys. (except when Cowboy has eaten my paintings!) I am so sorry to hear of your son passing on, heartbroken for you. Surely he lives on in your artwork and memories, always. My dad was my biggest fan in art and when he passed I couldn't imagine another milestone without being able to call him to share. Many a painting's blossoms and blooms were actually tears as I turned to art, nature, and the good Lord above to help me survive the loss. My artwork actually had a shift during that time of mourning. Love that art helps to heal and process life, big hugs to you friend.

Wow! I've learned so much from your excellent content. THANK YOU! I was wondering if one can print directly onto the masking paper with a laser jet printer... it might be too sticky but worth asking.

@watercolorpour

11 ай бұрын

I haven't tried that, please let me know if you do. This masking paper is great the way I used it here, but on another painting I let some water sit on it and it disintegrated. So definitely need to pull it off immediately.

Beginners mind. So important. Occasionally I’ll meet an artist who no longer takes classes, and they have settled into a style and they are happy there. Me, I’ll always be happy to be a beginner. Once you stop learning, what’s the point?

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughtful response.

I love how you bring in the background color for shadows and build up the painting by gently pushing the background colors into the subject layer by layer. Adding the other colors to the background is brilliant. This paper mask is something I have never seen before...did you make it yourself or did you purchase it? Also....I do not have Jane's black. I do have D.S. watercolors Lamp Black, Black Tourmaline Genuine, Black (Red/Green), Black (Blue, Orange) and McCracken Black. I am thinking of playing with a some of those. Kyanite might be interesting and perhaps a color I just discovered...Moonglow. You're right...a series of these would be helpful. I am thinking of white lilies as I missed taking pictures of white magnolias.....maybe white roses???? I am really interested in that masking paper.

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

The masking paper can be found here on my Amazon Art Page: www.amazon.com/shop/watercolorpour/list/CWS12AIUW0FJ and the Black Blue Orange is the Jane's Black, I think they had different labels when it first came to market. 😍 ps. you have a wonderful collection of blacks!

I'm obsessed with this painting. It's so beautiful! I'm on your Amazon page looking for the masking paper and cannot find it. What brand of masking paper do you use? THANK YOU!

@watercolorpour

3 ай бұрын

Hi Debra, since filming this video, I realizedthis masking paper is finicky, sometimes it worked and other times it disintegrated so I took it off my Amazon, but now use masking tape, I use the Scotch Contractor Masking Tape #2020 - will add it to the Amazon page, thank-you for the encouraging comment ❤

@watercolorpour

3 ай бұрын

added the tape here: www.amazon.com/create/collection?id=amzn1.ideas.32Z59XEJOMUZ8

@debbieguiloff7249

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Buffy. I ordered the tape and other things, 🙂 and I also feel colors.

Lovely and helpful. Is it janes grey or black?

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

The new Jane's Black, she has two new colors with Daniel Smith - Jane's Black Blue Orange and Jane's Black Red Green

@LindaMW

Жыл бұрын

@@watercolorpour thank you. I couldn’t find it on amazon. Found it Cheap Joe’s Art.

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

@@LindaMW Thank you for sharing where to find it!

Where do you purchase the masking paper?

@watercolorpour

Жыл бұрын

UPDATED: now using Masking tape - f you go to my Amazon Art Page it is listed under the Supply List Watercolor Workshop category -www.amazon.com/create/collection?id=amzn1.ideas.32Z59XEJOMUZ8