11. Starting a watercolor; The first wash

This week I had to pick a few watercolors at the gallery after a good exhibition this month. I visited a few clients for new houseportraits and there was some time to start a new watercolor.

[@toddsullivan6962]

If clients watched you paint the paintings they buy, they'd pay 10X the amount.

[@RobertoDomeArt]

Just found your channel, your videos and paintings are amazing and have the same artistic language. Subscribed and looking forward to see more. Thanks for sharing.

[@TitusMeeuws]

Thank you!

[@brianrogers3942]

Nice work on this watercolor, love how the shadows bring everything together, at least in my eyes. 👍

[@TitusMeeuws]

Thank you!

[@solea59]

I really like your work Titus. Keep them coming, they are extremely informative and very relaxing just to watch !

[@paintparkspaws]

I am appreciative of you sharing the early stages of your watercolor painting process. To my mind it’s the most creative part of the work.

[@andrelloyd4010]

Thank you for producing this wonderful series of stimulating video's Titus. I do hope more artists will kindly document and make available their creative processes & practices for viewing as you do. Best wishes & Happy painting 🙏

[@TitusMeeuws]

Thank you Andre

[@tammyclark1207]

Excellent process..that was wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

[@Seiffer55]

I can't begin to tell you how interesting it is to watch your process. Genuinely, thank you for sharing your experience and I appreciate all you do. I've been trying to do water color for some time and always seem to over work them and it's very disheartening sometimes. I've come to love the act of painting itself vs my actual finished works however. Anyways, thank you again mate. Have a wonderful life.

[@ChristopherDonnerArtist]

Wow sir, greetings from America. These are outstanding

[@mikesamovarov4054]

Which America? South America or Nortn? I'm in America, as a Canadian.

[@marildetesilva1410]

Gracias muchas gracias

[@markdonovan1540]

Mesmerising beauty and harmony in the process and creativity

[@AndreaGomez-yz7kz]

Te veo desde la patagonia Argentina. Bellos trabajos los tuyos y te agradezco los videos, los uso como tutoriales! Me sirven y mucho. Saludo cordialmente desde Neuquén .

[@TitusMeeuws]

gracias! Me gusta eso, diviértete!

[@marijkevanderven4717]

Had ik maar een duizendste van je talent en een honderdste van je kalmte! Mooi man!!!

[@TitusMeeuws]

Dankje Marijke

[@rochford1000]

Thank you Titus.

[@TitusMeeuws]

My pleasue @rochford1000

[@carlkligerman1981]

Ah, this one I would call a self portrait

[@yan-eva56]

« J’ai mangé » (mon corps me remercie sagement..) ✨🌝

[@yan-eva56]

« le jaune est une ( belle teinte ) pour commencer son intense envie de sublimer sa journée.. »

[@miguelart1928]

Hello, very good work, I like it, congratulations, what number of mechanical pencils do you use?

[@art_by_alexandre]

Hi Titus, just started watching your videos and they are very inspiring, thank you for sharing! I noticed in some of your videos you have a mirror up on an easel, what is that for?

[@TitusMeeuws]

Hi Alexandre. Oh yes, I need that mirror every painting! Seeing your work through the mirror gives a totally different and fresh look. Try it and you know what I am talking about!

[@zenguitar65]

Hello Titus, I am a new subscriber to your channel. I'm very much looking forward to all your videos. Could you please reply with the Name of the company who makes your water color easel you use here? Thank you!

[@TitusMeeuws]

Thank you. Actually it is not a watercolor easel, it is my older plein air easel. Now I am using a smaller one for painting outside. The brand is Italian MABEF

[@zenguitar65]

@@TitusMeeuws Thank you kindly!

[@reallyyouthful]

I love to watch you work. Why the music?

[@mikesamovarov4054]

So, your volume button is broken and you can't mute the video? 😂 People hate silence, people prefer music. Not just heavy breathing. You can mute the video, if you are so weird - you require silence.

[@reallyyouthful]

@@mikesamovarov4054 And who are you to speak out for the 'people'? I don't prefer silence I prefer honest sound and not computerised MUSAK. And your knowledge of heavy breathing is a little bit worrying . . . it's a little bit 'weird' . . . . .Mike.

[@paintparkspaws]

If I may, by way of explanation “why the music” I believe these videos of his painting process are not what you might be expecting-they’re not tutorials with someone chattering away ad nauseam about blooms and cauliflowers or pigments or rules. They’re visits to the artist’s studio or on sight work and creative process. The background music is original and I feel better than everything else on YT painting videos. The music might even be thought of as part of his painting. At least that’s how I experience it. To each their own.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

What is your opinion of watercolour artists who paint section by section...not washes from top to bottom?

[@TitusMeeuws]

If it works, it works I think. For me personally the layers work well because it is the way to bring depth in de watercolor. But it will not be the only way!

[@yan-eva56]

Je ne sais plus ( contempler. ) « Je m’exerce » Perfectionner mes atouts nécessite du temps..

[@JoeySabourindesigns]

What is the song at the end?

[@TitusMeeuws]

Hi. All music in de videos was made by myself

[@yan-eva56]

Ces teintes se marient-elles avec le gris. « ce nuage clair dans son œuvre »

[@yan-eva56]

Les autres couleur(s) ( se dissipe ) dans la lumière du jour..

[@yan-eva56]

Est-ce que l'art peut être une matière nutritive. Ceci étant simplement ( une projection.. )