3 Reason Why Your Watercolor Looks Dull

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How to get freshness in my watercolor painting, many watercolor beginners has this question. This video is all about highlighting 3 possible reason why your watercolor painting looks muddy or dull. I tried to call out best watercolor tips for all beginners who has been facing muddiness in their painting, and i strongly believe that my watercolor tips will help you to get rid out of dullness issue in your painting and if you follow these tips and techniques you will no longer have this issue.
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Timecode
0:00 - Intro
00:36 - Get free watercolor lesson
01:10 - Your first watercolor layer is responsible
03:20 - Your watercolor mixing pattern
09:38 - Watercolor depth and contrast
10:35 - The value of sketch in watercolor
Happy Watercoloring!
Nitin Singh

[@jameslbaker9138]

Thank you for the insights and encouragement. Sketching is key. I try not always successfully to do so every day. I just splash paint on cheap paper making it up as I go. A fish a building a car. It’s all fun and no pressure

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

You’re absolutely right, thank you for sharing your thoughts 👍

[@toffylikesgames]

This is such a good advice :) Ever since I learnt about your 3 layer approach, my paintings have definitely improved by a mile. I'm in a bit of an artist slump right now, so I think I need to focus on this again 🙂 The colour mixing problem is also soo me. I'm currently trying to paint on a pricier cotton paper after mostly using cellulose paper (which I love!), so it's a bit of a challenge!

[@artisforusall]

These are VERY helpful comments, I really learned a lot from the video, even though I have been painting for a long time!! Thank you!!

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Very happy to hear you, thanks for watching ❤️

[@dharmendrasinhchauhan]

Very good words for encouraging and importance of sketching

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you

[@KwameCrawford]

Nitin! I'm glad you're back making tutorials! Thank you so much!

[@TinRoofVintage]

Thank you, thank you for your indepth teaching and passion to instill in us the joys of watercolor! ❤

[@womanwithcamerawithandreaa626]

After watching your videos, I finally understood watercolor. Thank you so much!! Namaste

[@ashiskumarsarkar8678]

Your content is always outstanding Nitin Ji. You know very well what the most important requirements are.

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you so much, I’m sharing what I hve gone through 👍

[@gwenharrison6752]

So enjoy your work and talks Nitin. Inspiring to say the least.

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@williambrady1192]

I have started using the layer method that you explained. Thank you

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Hope that helpful 👍

[@youwatchme0808]

im watching and learning:) thank u , love ur painting style.!

[@ashokkr5599]

Thank you for the video. 👌👍🙏

[@mreinstein48]

Just what I needed!

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you

[@sunilwaidande236]

Thanks Sir 👏🏻

[@HeyPainting]

Nice sharing! This is a very helpful video~

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you so much

[@pramodkulkarni2226]

A very informative video, 👏

[@hariommehra2358]

Thanks dear Nitin. V. useful video. Besides your teaching l love your style of teaching in a cheerful manner.

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you so much

[@akhandpratapsingh8240]

Thank you Sir , Appki ye tips meri painting ko behtar bnate hai ,❣️ Thank u 🌼 sir.🙏🏻

[@titanostrongman]

hi nitin .i looked at your skill share and am seriously considering it as i love your work and teaching style.i also just started going to college fulltime for art.and watercolor. i wanted to ask tho.all your skill share reviews are i-2 years old. just wanted to ask why theres not newer ones

[@proarch9579]

We got very important informstion Sir

[@hitendravasa8576]

Yr water color painting 👌👌👌👌❤

[@Lilly1011]

Thank you for taking the time and making these videos!!

[@brucemckenziefraser139]

A great video, as usual 🙏 Btw, in the title, the plural of reason is reasons 👍

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Oh thank you so much correcting this, I will change 👍

[@anirshabiswas2807]

You are amazing 😍😍 Btw love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️❤️🥰

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

Thank you so much 👍

[@rabindranathmf2975]

Hola mi amigo, te veo desde Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Eres increíble en la técnica de la acuarela, y en el sketch urbano. Sería fantástico que subtitularas al español porque no todos sabemos inglés. Felicidades, eres increíble y eres muy humilde.

[@smamatha656]

Thank you for sharing.. please share which is good water colour paints ?

[@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings]

I can’t comment on this, all are good

[@smamatha656]

@@NitinSinghwatercolorpaintings which watercolor brand paints do you use ? Is it cake or tubes which is a good choice to buy water colour paints?

[@MelitaBintoro]

i find your explanations so helpful! been a new subscriber but watching a bunch of your vids. i have a big issue w pigment control.. it looks on the page as i'm using too much paint but ive recently experimented with using less and it looks very washed out as well... i'm not sure how to work on this and think its a big reason why my paintings look muddy and heavy. what tips do you have regarding pigment control and transparency? you mention its important to keep in mind in this vid but wondering if you may have specific tips on how to control it? thank you so much

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

I had this problem and because of that I didn't like watercolor at all and only did oil. Now I am doing watercolor and this is how I fixed it. 1. Using pro quality pigments. 2. When I need strong color I prefer to use Lukas brand of colors as I found them to be the most impacrful. You can experiment to see which brand works for you. Note that it's only for strong part. For lighter part I use different brand like holbein or schmicke etc. 3. Layering as he mentioned. You need to slowly build the strong colors. 4. Start with darkest color first and then you will know how lights the light shades shall be. Hope it helps.

[@MelitaBintoro]

@@parthsavyasachi9348 hey thanks so much for the reply i also switched to oils for awhile but i'm really trying to improve on watercolours. i've been using mostly pro paints mostly Daniel Smith and Winsor and Newton but I find maybe it is too pigmented i'm really struggling with the pigment control and putting too much on the page/too heavy/no translucency. perhaps i have to dilute them way more in the palette or what techniques do you find works best for this issue?

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

@@MelitaBintoro with watercolors what I am actually doing is that I am confining myself to limited number of colors. My strategy so far has been to try and see what combinations work good together and look harmonic. So that means I know how the colors would look once dried. So usually I have control over final output. I have my mistakes too. I wish I could show you in my early paintings and the recent ones.

[@MelitaBintoro]

@@parthsavyasachi9348 thanks for the reply again, how do you deal with pigment control? i do use limited palettes but i find i may be using too much pigment. although i do exercises with water control i find in my pieces i end up using too much paint.. i really struggle with it. i have earlier paintings where i am building layer upon layer but i'm trying to be more abstract, expressive as these earlier pieces feel too controlled. been doing a lot of plein air but the pigment control seems to be my biggest issue there. would love any tips you have

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

@@MelitaBintoro Is it possible for you to . Your last post was as if I was writing to myself. I have had some success and deviced myself some things. It will be interesting to share. KZbin is too constrained to write that.

[@rashmid8427]

Hello sir, how to enroll for your watercolor class?

[@subhashnisarta3496]

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[@alkagarg2555]

Do you mean we should use complementary color or do u mean we should not use complimentary .it was not clear in video

[@bigpapsi]

i guess you should be aware if you mix them, that the resulting color looks grey and "muddy". So use them separated but dont mix.