Make a mistake? Paint the SAME scene AGAIN. Tips on how to avoid overworking your watercolors

[@barbaramunford5472]

Great tutorial! Very helpful to see the two paintings and your discussion of what was right and wrong.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Barbara

[@MrCatrig77]

What is your routine dark?

[@iamyodaok]

This comparative demo is really helpful and grounded- it depicts the common mistakes anyone can make and how to steer it better on the next round of watercolor!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Alden

[@clivenorman5530]

Very refreshing to see honest appraisal of mistakes and what to avoid. Very useful indeed as many artists never show failures.... and they must have them. Much appreciated.

[@TimWilmot]

Yes...they certainly have them....!

[@bobbrown8155]

@@TimWilmot Especially in water color where there is no turning back (unlike oil paints)

[@mijkedehartog7715]

Thanks again Tim, so interesting to hear your comments on working on a painting too much, loved the idea of two versions.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@msolderbutwiser]

I have lived in Alexandria. So excited to see you use this reference photo.

[@TimWilmot]

A beautiful city

[@CrossroadCastle]

What a pleasure watching you paint! Thank you for sharing your talent and skills with us.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you so much 😀

One of the most clarifying vídeo you shot. Thanks for that, very much.

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure!

[@bramleymoore64]

Hi Tim, I have been enjoying your videos and instruction for a couple of years now. I would have been proud of either picture myself, but understood your point. I felt I was there in the heat of a busy city.

[@TimWilmot]

Excellent and thanks Peter

[@nurpriyanka]

I loved them both. Learnt so much today. Thank you for this video.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sctt5071]

Excellent demo, Tim. It gives us beginners confidence that even the masters make mistakes. Thanks for contributing to learners like us.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@serrc1]

Brilliant tutorial! Honest till the very end. Thanks

[@TimWilmot]

You're welcome!

[@vijaykumarthorat4450]

Many more understood 🎨the correct study about cityscape landscape colour applications and very sincerely guide us. 🙏 Many Thanx Sir 🌹

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure 😊

[@dagugli6092]

This video answers some of my questions! thanks, Tim! I will watch it carefully.

[@TimWilmot]

Let me know what you think!

[@marcoa.morales9297]

Bravo! It has been a pleasure to see both paintings and the comparison. Thanks a lot for this master class

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. If you fancy a go yourself, why not consider being a Patron via my Patreon site. For a small pledge I set regular painting projects and you get a video critique back from me in return. More info at www.patreon.com/timwilmot . Thanks again.

[@SuperReyand]

masterful! and very usefull lesson. thanks again for sharing, mr. wilmot!

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure!

[@wilmawernick9242]

It takes a lot of courage to show one's mistakes and the over-working of a painting . . . but . . . oh, so helpful to see a master painter at work and willing to share errors. Thank you. It helps me forge ahead and try to learn from what went wrong when I make those problem areas surface, much to my consternation.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@claudeduranton6792]

I'd like to fail in my watercolors like you... if you knew my mistakes, you'd judge your mistakes more leniently, that's for sure. In any case, thank you very much for the demonstration, your mastery and, if that wasn't enough, your humility.

[@TimWilmot]

I just wanted to share my mistakes - even if just a reminder to me!

[@santone1849]

excellent tutorial think I would have liked a finished version somewhere between the two . I liked both ; )

[@TimWilmot]

Yes I know what you mean

[@Pajeot1]

Hi Tim, I think I may have learned more from this video than any of your others. Your struggles, while painful to you, have provided great benefit to the rest of us. And masterfully, you were still able to turn them into wonderful paintings! :)

[@dianapurdy9529]

Tim, would you use that white paint for a misty natural landscape or would you work more with wet in wet and pulling out colour?

[@TimWilmot]

Well said! I do like to do a critique on myself now and again

[@TimWilmot]

wet in wet - dangerous with white

[@akulina36]

Fantastic!!!! Bravo!!! Adorei!!! Thank you vary much!!!!!!

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you too!

[@lynnpomeroy9336]

Well done. Loved your tutorial.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you!

[@MANSUR1955]

They are both masterpieces, although I prefer the former, although I wouldn't dare apply gouache, Tim. Thanks for your teaching.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you like them!

[@elsatroubetzkoy7467]

Thank you very much for this tutorial, it is very helpful to listen to your comments! I hope to be able to integrate a large part of it in may watercolors!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. If you fancy a go yourself, why not consider being a Patron via my Patreon site. For a small pledge I set regular painting projects and you get a video critique back from me in return. More info at www.patreon.com/timwilmot . Thanks again.

[@mysticriver9420]

merci beaucoup !

[@TimWilmot]

Merci

[@muralidharswarangi3821]

Thank you very much for this invaluable lesson Sir. When you applied white to get that dusty look, in first painting, my heart sank. But how you came out of it was amazing. Probably the first painting would have been as good as second, had you not deliberately applied whites in access just to show us what not to do. Its very selfless of you. Thank you once again.

[@TimWilmot]

Yes I know what you mean about the first painting. Most of the time with watercolor, make a mistake, time to go home

[@pdbowman]

This was lovely, thank you.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@romaricdablaka2925]

wonderfull sir, i love

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@weeverob]

What I take from this video is with the right hand and imagination you can just about make any ugly duckling scene into a swan. Tx Tim !

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Rob!

[@pedinurse1]

Great tutorial, you focused on all the bad habits I have, lol How do you keep it wet so long, Mine dries up so quickly, or I get a flood

[@TimWilmot]

type of paper....humidity...temperature of your location.....

[@ArtsofPamatayHomesickV20]

again , wonderful tutorials..

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks again!

[@bpacarro8419]

Your journey and honesty with these 2 have been very helpful in my journey as a beginner in the loose style. I definitely learned a lot and was still we watch this video. Thank you so much. As a suggestion, perhaps have a musical instrumental soundtrack in the background at very low volume...some white noise as you color in white paper. Thank you and aloha from Hawaii🤙🏼🌈

[@TimWilmot]

Some Hawaian music?

[@barbaragemin5117]

Thank you Tim. That was interesting and I felt consoled!! Overworking is a big trap for me and many others probably. Yesterday I painted a woodland scene, twice. I learned by my mistakes, but still I overworked them.

[@TimWilmot]

But well done for painting it twice

[@elijahstv]

Hi Tim, what a lovely painting. May i know what paper did you use and how many gsm? Thanks

[@TimWilmot]

Saunders Waterford 300 gms @stcuthbertsmill

[@annabiing2570]

thank you very much for the tutorial!!!! (camera jumps from cool to warm, "auto color adjustment" is a bit hard on eyes)

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for the feedback

[@adhinaryana2451]

Thank you Master.. A fan from India andhrapradesh

[@TimWilmot]

Hello to you and thanks

[@lucillefemine2339]

I like both of them but I do get your points very well of some mistakes you can make - which I have done, especially with too much white to "save the painting". Learned a lot. Is that a metal palette you use and do you find they work better?

[@TimWilmot]

Yes is metal and I find it best from Holbein

[@gshep3151]

Hey Tim, there's no rules in painting, I know plenty of professional watercolorists who work the ir paintings to death with gouache, skrubbing out etc. until they get what they want. However I do understand that you prefer to paint in a more alla prema way. Everyone is different in the way they work and there's nothing wrong with the way you did the first painting, both are equally as good.

[@TimWilmot]

Yes, there's room for everyone. I agree with you

[@annabiing2570]

Hi Tim, what is the small brush you are using for the detailing. Im struggling to find a good one, they are either too soft or too hard, yours seems to be perfect. Thanks!

[@TimWilmot]

I think it is from jax hair. Escoda do good ones also

[@z...loveandlight1112]

This photo is from Egypt - Alexandria city 😃

[@TimWilmot]

Yes. Lovely city

[@Onegai87]

what is the brush at 18 minutes?

[@TimWilmot]

Raphael soft aqua

[@JiveDadson]

One thing that is true to nature in the reference photo is the sky colo[u]r. I am sitting in shade on a clear noontime, near Hollister, central California, USA. The sky in the ref. on my tablet precisely matches the sky I see behind the low mountains. In photos, the clear blue sky is all too often rendered with far too much chroma, and shifted toward purple.

[@TimWilmot]

Very good point and well put. Thank you!

[@deltaforce6813]

Watercolor wisdom. 🙏

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@msolderbutwiser]

That's Egypt

[@TimWilmot]

Yes!!

[@johnsaints7826]

this is confusing. you posted a video, but you dont want us to watch it?

[@TimWilmot]

It's on here John - warts and all

[@salvatorenolfo5649]

Hi Tim I'm French I like your lesons so much! One thing : your pencil is too light ,I have a lot of difficultie to see well your sketch.. Please use one more strong! Salvador

[@TimWilmot]

Yes I think it was the lighting on this one