3 of my Favourite Watercolour Techniques // Realistic Watercolour Hydrangea

[@hicklinhh]

Could be the clearest, most effective KZbin watercolor video yet (and I have seen hundreds, perhaps thousands). Louise's style is impeccable.

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Oh Harry that's a beautiful compliment. Thank you very much. It was lovely to wake up this morning and read your kind words.

[@Eleeens1]

I couldn't agree more 👏 Thank you Louise💫

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thank you very much Elena.

[@patriciabracker3534]

I started watercolors in 1992 with One of Zoltan Scabos teachers who introduced me to your techniquesNow I use them on my flowers-portraits and birds You have the professional touch for successful watercolors Thank you for refreshing them to me

[@patriciachristian1769]

Wow! I never thought that watercolor would make beautiful, different shades of colors just for only one flowers It surprised me Good job and great talents 😍❤️🤟🏻👩🏻‍🦳

[@velvetbees]

This video feels like you are learning from a true master of watercolors.

[@NitaKlosowsky]

I really like De Masi's videos. She explains her techniques in a clear, easy to hear voice. She goes slow enough to understand the techniques she uses. I watch all of her videos.

[@jolendolabany1947]

You have a great “voice” for translating the complicated into the easily understood. I watched the video twice all the time thinking, “Oh, that’s how you do it!” 🤦‍♀️Thank you.

[@Yolansha]

OMG after 3 years I just knew your channel. I am self taught watercolorist, and none I’ve seen in youtube to give clear explanation like you did. I challenge myself to enhance my skill in watercolor now and thanks God I found this channel.

[@kellylaher7512]

I have never had this explained to me so well! Thank you! I love your style of painting as well!

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thank you Kelly! I appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment. I'm glad it helped.

[@wardakhan9459]

Possibly the best teacher on KZbin! I learned so much from this one video. Thank you!

[@christiecornetta372]

Louise, you are a great teacher. Your explanations are great, even for a rank beginner. So many tutorials are just watching someone paint and there is no explanation about how to use the brush or water. THank you!

[@stephaniemitchell8509]

You're a wonderful teacher! So much patience and attention to detail, and all explained so clearly. I hope you stay on youtube and find success both here and on Patreon!

[@LouiseDeMasi]

What a lovely compliment. Thank you very much Stephanie. I appreciate your kind words 🧡.

[@Frühobst]

These colors are a always a killer combination.

[@charlenel5689]

I have watched many tutorials. Tou are the only one who explains along with demo. I have learned so much from you, from a single demo. Thank you very much.

[@normaspande3141]

That was fantastic, I had never been taught any of those techniques...thank you so very much. I am 89 and just starting to try watercolor and I am learning how to do this from Utube.you are a very good teacher

[@alisonjesson472]

I have learnt more in this brilliant video about watercolour technique than on any other artist’s channel. I love the way you explain and simply demonstrate your techniques. I feel really inspired. I’ve just spent a happy Boxing Day lockdown to watch several more of your demos. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@JoyceDlugokinski]

This was an excellent tutorial….once again! I love how you explain things so well and repeat the steps for us as you paint. Thank you so much, you are fabulous ♥️

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thank you so much! 💕

[@nirashakannangara9901]

Wow, I have been using these techniques for a while. But watching this video gave a clear idea how I could use them more effectively. Thanks a lot for sharing. 💐

[@pammcardle40]

That was wonderful! The two brush technique for blending and softening is so helpful! Your work is beautiful and you are just a pleasure to watch. Thank you!

[@lynnadamson7773]

Click! After wandering as a beginner in the watercolor wilderness for two years this video brought it all together for me. I actually made an acceptable painting of the hydrangeas! Thank you Louise.

[@barbarawickwire9509]

I watch and love your wonderful teaching methods. Thank you for doing great free videos for those of us who cannot pay. This is my first comment but wanted to tell you how much these have meant to me as I am just learning w/c. Previously have used acrylics. I love birds and your bird paintings are so beautiful. I especially appreciated your telling about how you used to be so determined to get every detail perfect - and you do that so well!- but have come to a place of wanting to be loose in your approach and those paintings I just love. You are a true nature lover and a great inspiration to me, now 76 years old. Thanks so much.

[@TheLittleankou]

This is an amazing video; I feel like I finally understand how to use those technniques properly. Thank you so much for this! 🥰

[@DenaTollefson]

Hi Louise! Oh your hydrangea painting is stunning. Your dropping one color on another over damp watercolor to create your hydrangea is so nuanced and beautiful. Your narration is so clear- you are an excellent teacher demonstrating hard and soft, organic edges and how to achieve them. Brilliant, Louise!

[@thomasstewart1646]

Hi Dena

[@Emmeefive]

This is the most helpful watercolor video I have seen. I love how thorough you are in explaining it. Thank you so much!

[@beatryzcorrea1118]

These tutorials are better than some courses that i've paid for !

[@mariakapatos9545]

Louise, I have to agree with the comment below you explain every detail so beautifully, and so easy to follow I so enjoy your lessons. Thank you so much.🌹❤️

[@markc.potter1102]

You spoke with so much kindness and appreciation, I couldn’t help but be your subscriber, hope you don’t mind ?

[@maryrakas8012]

I love the way you teach so clearly and concisely. Thank you for sharing. Your work is beautiful!

[@lobinski07]

I can only agree with the last comment before mine, nobody has explained it so conclusively to me, I felt like I saw 1000 tutorials. thank you dear louise, that takes me a big step further

[@carlaa.1617]

Louise beginners who have just started learning from you are so fortunate, you are such amazing teacher and artist! Your hydrangea painting is gorgeous! Even though I am not a beginner I have learned a lot watching your videos and you are one of the reasons watercolour is now my favourite medium to use. Thank you so much for all that you teach and offer🙏💜💙

[@LouiseDeMasi]

What a lovely message for me to wake up and read. Thank you very much Carla. 😘

[@markc.potter1102]

You spoke with so much kindness and appreciation, I couldn’t help but be your subscriber, hope you don’t mind ?

[@susankeable6201]

I'm not that familiar with watercolours but use watercolour pencils. I loved your frog. My first time seeing your techniques and I'm hooked. Thanks for every bit of information We adore U.

[@marleiseturner4689]

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing this technique. As a newly retired first time watercolor enthusiast, I appreciate these tips.

[@gretchenmero8560]

I always learn something new in every tutorial and sometimes it's even the colors you are choosing for a painting, besides the techniques you are teaching. Thanks!

[@sharonsegretto5617]

Genius tutorial, Louise -- thank you (again) for sharing your knowledge!

[@debbietesch9990]

Louise, Thank you so much for the clarity you brought to this technique. I have been struggling with this blending skill for sometime. I understand how to approach the issue much better now. I'm grateful for your sharing your knowledge.

[@LouiseDeMasi]

My pleasure Debbie. Thank you very much. I hope it helps you.

[@markc.potter1102]

You spoke with so much kindness and appreciation, I couldn’t help but be your first subscriber, hope you don’t mind ?

[@mindykeys206]

This was so very helpful, I cannot thank you enough.

[@amandasymon4363]

I always “LIKE” your videos. You are such a good teacher 🥰 You give the viewer time to fully understand what is required to get the desired result.

[@fiona1269]

Amazing. I am learning so much from your tutorials. Thank you.

[@dr.nadaalrahma6881]

I love your way of teaching . So easy and dowable

[@lynnwiley7688]

Your explanations are excellent, yet concise. Great lesson!

[@littlemoonillustrations4372]

What a wonderful clear explanation of all the techniques and details. Thank you sooooo much. I am so happy to have found your YT channel 💗 💕 💖

[@sherrylaird4361]

So much valuable information! You make the instructions very easy to understand, especially for a new watercolor artist like myself! Thank you Louise!

[@markc.potter1102]

You spoke with so much kindness and appreciation, I couldn’t help but be your first subscriber, hope you don’t mind ?

[@brifren2]

Merci beaucoup pour ces techniques et vos explications très claires!

[@dfblake7]

Louise...my heartfelt thanks for sharing your wonderful talent. Your presentation is so calm and the pace is just right for me. I have only just discovered a love for art, though I vividly recall my delight in all things artistic as a child of the 60's. Having discovered I actually can draw and paint, I am enthralled, and enabled by the knowledge shared by people like yourself. Blessings to you and yours.

[@paulanorris9722]

Great video! Your art is always perfection! ❤

[@expressions4997]

Strikingly beautiful painting. And so well explained. Would have loved to see her add the green leaves

[@arunapendse6296]

Thank you so much for teaching these techniques so beautifully and in lucid way. I liked your style.

[@LouiseDeMasi]

That's very kind of you. Thank you Aruna.

[@peggymidtun]

My search for the best watercolour tutorials stops right here!! You are a delight to learn new skills from. Thank you for doing what you do :-)

[@fredasidaravicius232]

Simply beautiful.

[@rebeccawong1]

So controlled. This is aTHE classroom 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@salomegogoladze6432]

she is amazing, can not stop watching her.

[@californiagirl5702]

A very controlled way to blend and soften colors which actually gives you more control over the detail and the results.

[@jvenkatonline]

Wonderful. I don't know how to explain - your paintings are beautiful. It motivates me to draw something based on your technique🙂

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thank you!

[@a2ivonne]

Thanks for join us!!!... I learned a lot of...

[@deannadeal176]

Your tutorials are so well done. You explain each detail so well and I love that you actual show how you did it on your own work. This was an amazing lesson. You are such a great inspiration. Thank you. Once I get back to work, after Covid, I will be sure to visit your patron page. 🙃

[@jessicabamber8732]

I really like this video. I like the first technique the best. Probably because it’s one I don’t use a lot and suddenly I see more areas I could use it.

[@danielmoraes6001]

I have just watched 02 videos of yours... there is nothing like them wooww. Heading on to marathon your channel hhehehe CONGRATULATIONS from BRAZILLLL!!!

[@carreenrose8800]

You are a delight to watch and from whom to learn. I agree with all the other comments made.

[@user-jw6ge6dr1q]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

[@RameyRocks]

Wow what a beautiful painting first of all. That was the whole reason why I watched it because I do not even watercolor paint. I use oils or acrylics or both. But watching this technique explains a whole lot about how to paint with watercolors.

[@kathya4160]

Beautiful I can’t Wait to try this technique thankyou for your detailed video

[@hrt2art]

I, too, have never had these techniques explained in detail. I have been using too wet a brush to soften edges and then I wonder why I get the bleed. Thank you so much for this invaluable information. This will help my painting. I also liked the adding color over the initial wash and mixing paint on the paper.

[@jilltonybernard301]

Love your style, and how easy you make the tutorials look. Thank you for sharing you wonderful techniques.

[@zahrullailyusof]

Thanks for the detail explaination. Very helpful tutorial, since i search in depth about watercolor painting. 🌺👍

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

This is the best video I saw on you tube for edge control

[@adunzoroq33]

wow! you are a brilliant teacher, love your instructions and cannot wait to try these techniques. Thank you so much :)

[@marianneyag4106]

Wow Louise, you are so talented. I found you on Skillshare. I have enrolled in your class. I am so excited to learn from you. I love your colours and style.💟

[@thomasstewart1646]

Hi Marianne

[@kathleenwildey2757]

Hi I am new to watercolours and you have just made this adventure much simpler for me. Thank you so very much. I will be going back and watching more of your videos.

[@marylindros6005]

I just “discovered” you about a week ago and have watched several of your tutorials. I particularly liked this one on hydrangeas as well as the one on negative painting of bird feathers.....I’m certain this is just the start of my journey into your tutorials. You have a clear and effective manner and I particularly like the many examples you provide!

[@conihog262]

Love your instructions so much you are an awesome teacher and so generous to share your secrets.Thank you so much, you make me want to paint again!

[@michelegilmer4679]

I’m addicted to your teaching, such a great teacher so easy to understand Thank you. Just starting to do your Skillshare classes.

[@thomasstewart1646]

Hi Michele

[@evawinters8932]

Louise, I just want to take a moment to express my gratitude for all of the time and energy you so graciously share with us. My creative endeavours, over the past 60 years, have taken flight in many different directions from the needle works, bead/wire and jewelry metalsmithing, fashion design/sewing and Tole/canvas Acrylic and Oil painting. Now, Thanks to KZbin, I have found another way of creative expression. While searching for a style that suits my taste, I have viewed dozens of videos presented by many talented Watercolourists, like yourself. From the first of your videos I viewed, it was clear to me that I found my style. Since then, I've been binge watching your videos, purchased the tools and supplies needed and am ready to jump in. However, before I select a Tutorial to purchase on Patreon or Skill Share, I would like to seek your advice on which of your Tutorials I should begin with. I do recognize that beginning with your Chrysanthemum or a complex Rose may be a mistake for a beginner. So, I will begin with a lot of practice on the basics from paper stretching to shapes, shading, color blending, water control and proper brush strokes. So, if you would be so kind, which of your Tutorials would be best suited for a beginner once I'm ready to commit to a full painting? Thank you, in advance, for your suggestion.🙂🎨

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Hi Eva, You've been leading a wonderfully creative life by the sounds of it and I'm glad our paths have crossed. I think once you're ready to begin the simplest class I have is the Dragonfly tutorial on Patreon. That will get you painting wet on wet, some loose areas and some areas where you'll paint with more control. It's a fun tutorial that isn't too difficult. Then I'd move onto the Eucalyptus leaves on Patreon which is all about glazing colours and working wet on dry. It will give you a lot of brush control practice but if you've been painting in acrylic and oils I think you may have brush control already. Those are the two I would start with. Thank you!

[@evawinters8932]

@@LouiseDeMasi Thank you, Louise for your thoughtful reply. I will do just that and, hopefully, I'll share my good results with you. I so admire and respect your talent and teaching style, so calm, methodical. And, yes, my creative nature began to show, my Mother tells, as a 3 year old. Since I wasn't able to completely verbalize what I wanted, I would bring my Dollie to her with some of her fabric scraps and tried to express just what fashion I wanted for my Dollie. During my life, while child rearing, I designed and sewed fashions for my real life Dollies. Oh the compliments from some of the Church Ladies and wanting me to sew for their children. What fun! So, at this late stage of my life, I am able to indulge myself in an art form that's just for me without having to think about commercial value. Thanks again!🎨☺

[@sharonpercy8656]

I just love your Hydrangeas Louise, & your instructions are very clear. It looks like really nice paper too🙏🏼Thankyou

[@loretosilva7687]

Hydrangeas are gorgeous💜

[@daniesza]

I love her style and her out takes as little bonuses on many of her vids

[@lindacsmith13]

I love your paintings.

[@TheBhopali1]

Louise, You are an outstanding person!

[@arabesquejacob8176]

Such attention to detail, remarkable teacher ! Thank you 🙏 I’m a beginner so I have SO much to learn. 😘

[@prabhapanth6762]

Thanks Louise. You have explained very clearly.

[@jamilynn322]

This was SO helpful - thank you very, very much! I was struggling trying to follow a tutorial where these tactics were used and was getting blooms and washed-out areas all over the place. This made a big difference.

[@anartistpatty8912]

Thank you so much for your video. You are a great teacher.

[@mahirakhan-rea9625]

Thank you for this detailed instruction. so very useful.

[@hissyfitz7890]

Glad I found you again! iPad was dropped too many times. 😱😱😱 You are an excellent teacher!

[@florencekomisar5628]

Great video, you are a gifted teacher and Artist. Thank you for this video!!

[@supriyaswain600]

You are one the best tutor I have come across, giving information and focusing on minute details. Thank you 😊

[@inalf8493]

You rock a watercolor brush Louise! Thanks for sharing. 🤗

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Lol...thank you very much 💕.

[@Frühobst]

Beautiful painting.

[@cristinadextreperez4345]

Louise I can only say Thank you very much for you excellent videos, they show a very delicate and beatiful work

[@thomasstewart1646]

Hi Christina 😊

[@lindamanka8012]

Outstanding explanation and demonstration! Best ever!

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

You are so clear....your voice is extremely relaxing.thank you

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thank you!

[@04Ammy04]

What a great teacher. I love seeing the examples in the same work of art and how thoroughly you explain things. Thank you.

[@maximme]

good pace. wonderfully calm voice. LOGICAL steps. No back and forth, oops, i forgot my scrips etc. well done

[@LouiseDeMasi]

Thanks very much Micheal.

[@CT2507]

Excellent video Louise. A very simple but valuable technique. should be one of the first things we learn when painting with watercolor. how to soften the paint with a damp brush. just don't see others explaining it as well. great demonstration. now i get it! cheers... :)

[@nt4835]

Beautiful.......painting & good techniques 👌👌👌👍

[@marcohairdoctor]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful work and knowledge.💜

[@janetwillman2629]

Firstly THANK YOU Louise. Your videos area joy to watch and to listen to. I have learnt so much . You are an amazing artist and teacher. I’ve just discovered negative painting and love it, but was lost how to use it in my work, now I know. One of the very best tutorials I’ve ever watched.

[@zahrazulfiqar6784]

Your painting is so pretty same as you love it ❤️

[@lailarajab2225]

Lovely clear explanations

[@angelafletcher8472]

Incredible video........best I've seen thank you

[@christopheroxenham2659]

your explanations are clear like crystal.thank you so much.

[@LouiseDeMasi]

That's a lovely compliment. Thank you Christopher.

[@jonisilva8717]

You are a wonderful teacher! I have learned so much!

[@coolabah-blue]

I love hydrangeas, your painting is beautiful. You are a great teacher🙏🏻🇺🇸🇦🇺

[@yanhao3561]

Thank you for the great tutorial. Very helpful tips.

[@Belcih]

Thank you🎉. Beautiful way of teaching ❤