Overwhelmed & Confused By Watercolor Painting? Try This! Part 1

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Lost the joy in watercolor painting because you are busy watching all the tutorials like movies, buying all the supplies, and being busy comparing yourself to other watercolor artists? And now you feel stressed, overwhelmed, and confused and don't know how to get back into painting and finally put paint to paper? In this video, I'll help you to simplify to amplify - starting with your watercolor supplies!
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Brushes: Casaneo Mix-B Size 2 Brush, Silver Black Velvet Size 6, Casaneo Flat Brush 50 mm
Paper: Saunders Waterford Cold Pressed 100% Cotton, Arches Cold Pressed 100% Cotton, Winsor & Newton Cold Pressed 100% Cotton
Paint: White Nights Watercolor Pans
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[@Makoccino]

Join my paint to paper challenge: makoccino.com/painttopaper This year, it's going to be even more magical! ✨

[@ChantelleArts]

Yay, lovely to see you more often again ☺

[@mkr3976]

The paintings in your background are amazing

[@Makoccino]

Thank you so much! These are from my watercolor painting courses and membership classes ✨

[@matfen7978]

This is incredible, I got my supplies today, I'm just getting started and I found this amazing video fro 2 hours ago!

[@Makoccino]

Wonderful!

[@treasure601]

I am so so happy to see you back posting videos to KZbin! I have really missed you! Always such amazing content with you. Thank you for all that you bring to the Watercolor community…you are truly inspiring!!

[@Makoccino]

Aww thank you so much for your wonderful comment! This means a lot! 💕🙏

[@adhdbookworm]

So happy seeing you and your work again! 💛🌻

[@Makoccino]

💕🙏

[@meganstorm3248]

I love the video & really appreciate the approach.... but your website has me about ready to scream. I would very much like to get the guides, but there's no link to anything but the privacy policy. It says by submitting my email I agree to terms, and there's nowhere to do that, either. Is it me, am I missing something? Where are the LINKS?? Buttons? Newsletter?

[@Makoccino]

Glad you're enjoying it! Unfortunately due to EU regulations you need to agree the terms on the website regarding the cookies etc to even see the forms 😕 So if you accept the terms, you should be able to see the lines where you can enter your email. The note should pop up when you land on the page, it says "privacy preferences" and you need to accept all to see the fields. Please let me know if it still doesn't work. On my backend it seems like it works for others, but I want to make sure that it works for everybody. So thank you for letting me know!

[@meganstorm3248]

​@@Makoccino I did, mostly because I was being impatient & didn't want to go through the Pic & Choose portion I'm used to. Now I can't even get it to pop up. Still no links. Thank you for explaining, though, it was all getting very Kafka!

[@Makoccino]

@@meganstorm3248 strange! You can send an email to [e-mail] and we can send the guides to you that you wanted to download!

[@meganstorm3248]

@@Makoccino Thanks! I use Linux. so that may have something to do with it.

[@nevel-luna5070]

Thank you for taking your time to teach us about watercolors

[@rebeccahesser8057]

Another really great reasonable priced 100% cotton paper is Baohong Academy blocks.

[@Monardadidyma-g5q]

Makoccino is great. Very clear and informative.

[@sumitpagare-xs4ym]

Hi your so beautiful ❤❤❤ 😍 and your art works 💕💕😊 I am a big fan of you

[@tinn16d]

Thanks

[@donitairis3300]

It's been a long time since I last visited your channel. I remember during my highschool days, I usually watch your videos which helped me a lot in my watercolor journey!! But I got busy as time goes on so I haven't touched my watercolors in a while. I am a freshman in architecture student now and I forgot some of the basics in watercolor that I lost some of my confidence... That's why here I am! I'm glad that you're still making videos. Keep it up!!!! 😊❤️

[@Makoccino]

Welcome back!! 💕✨🙏

[@hollybishop484]

I just want to thank you for your content. After binging your water color videos I moved to your beginner ones, then your tutorials. They made me feel like I this is something I can do! Your book has also been a must have on hand in my journey. I'm still at the beginning but I'm more excited than scared. So thank you 😊

[@Makoccino]

That is so awesome! I'm so happy to hear that! And thank you so much for your sweet comment! 💕🙏

[@sher8838]

Thank you this is extremely insightful! :D

[@Makoccino]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aasthashaw4635]

I just love ur drwaings

[@33Jenesis]

At first i thought I needed as many colors as possible. Then I got overwhelmed. So I bought just a set of primary colors. Then I got blended colors muddy. So I bought 20-color sets. Non watercolor paper, even after applied a layer of watercolor medium paste, still doesn’t function well. I bought student grade paper is big size to cut into A4 size to doodle. I bought quite a few brushes from big swiping ones to tiny brushes and everything in between. I got really overwhelmed, like having every size and function golf clubs but not able to use any club well. I thought I needed big belly brush to have enough paint but color got out of control. I switched to slimmer brush, only to run out of paint too early. Don’t get me started on masking fluid. That whole endeavor was super frustrating.

[@pennywheeler2598]

Thank you. Excellent information🎨

[@Makoccino]

Glad it was helpful!

[@td9523]

Just the video I needed! Thank you! 🎉

[@Makoccino]

You're so welcome!

[@rikabernar]

Thank you so much.

[@rinkumallik7547]

You are amazing Painter And are a good teacher i think 🤗🤗🤗💠

[@AwkwardlySatisfying]

I’m so glad you’re back! Totally understand if you gotta go again, but I’m happy for all of your videos (and your book)!

[@Makoccino]

Thank you so much for your support!

[@gamingzombies6483]

Yaay

[@mkr3976]

In your brush set there were two brushes with dual tips I mean there was a fine tip and slightly thicker tip .what kind of those brushes are? I have never seen such brushes

[@Makoccino]

This is a liner brush by da Vinci, it has this belly that feeds the tip with water/paint :) So it's similar to the liner brush I showed and used in the video, but has this extra belly to hold more water and paint!

[@chantalmassin1756]

Hi Mako do you know why that aches paper isnt bright white. I dont like to paint on off white it makes my art not right. Whats your thought and advice on this?

[@Makoccino]

I don't mind it at all as I don't see a huge difference and I actually prefer the natural white of it! :) The Saunders Waterford is even more yellowish but I like the look of it too. But I believe you can get both in white as well but I haven't tested those! These are most likely bleached to make them more white

[@chantalmassin1756]

Oh ok I dont want bleach either I want all natural. Also I got some schmincke wc and love them. The price was on sale so I grabbed them. Lol I will also do you your challenges. Thanks for always helping me. Hugs

[@Makoccino]

@@chantalmassin1756 yayy awesome! I started with Schmincke and still use them in my main set up! Look forward to painting with you again!