The BEST technique for alla-prima watercolor portraits 🎨😁

[@DeyfanAoki]

Thank you for imparting us valuable knowledge! Truly appreciate your dedication and hard work 🎈You have inspired me and I believe many other viewers too! Toda Raba!

[@weill6872]

Was watching some of your oldest videos.. Just to tell you that all your videos are useful, enjoyable, on point and ispiring.

[@coolhappy]

Thank you for these. I just started drawing during all the time at home recently, and it's people like you who make it possible to learn great things like this online.

[@johnwoodcock6468]

Great liron mate

[@pjs3514]

Thanks for keeping it real. It was frustrating to you but it’s a relief to many of us to know we have the same struggles 😊

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

I think the risk you said of making darker between eye and nose made it much more appealing...risk well taken...👌

[@barbaragemin5117]

I do remember this portrait very well, it was a while back. I first watched, then painted along with you, then used a photo of mine which you critiqued for me - 'the smoker' It broke the ice for me as regards portrait painting.

[@jfnoble8824]

Awesome........thanks for sharing!!!

[@gouravtada]

I'm going to try

[@watercolornewbies]

Great demo Liron. It's great to see your struggles and how you fix them.

[@patsymccown2766]

Love this!!

[@edzejandehaan9265]

Great lesson. I will try this one for myself, as I am very interested in value. Checked my Sonnet set, and the premixed black in it is very similar to the one you used ( same black and blue pigment, the red one is PR 63.1). Should be fun to play with it! Your struggle with the nose/lip part was especially intruiging, there was a point at which I thought it was a totall loss, but you really proved your point to keep at it! Turned out great ("it's a face" is quite an understatement! ). I found the right paper is essential for being able to correct; with the first (cheap non cotton) paper I bought it was impossible, it just fell apart. Spend more on paper now.

[@kennytowns3309]

I think it came in great for one go..awesome

[@StefanoM68]

So the key is doing practice with monochrome watercolor with highlights and shadows.

[@jakepeters4370]

This is just what I'm looking for. I love this. Thank you! Can I make a suggestion? You might set your camera focus to manual so it doesn't shift while you're working. You are pretty much stationary. It would be easier on our eyes.

[@anonymous-vg7kc]

I consider myself a rookie but I am going to try

[@smellysock4260]

Thanks for sharing. Help, please. I lost control of my alla prima wash. I painted the dark eyes, eye brows, and shadows first. Then when I made the wash for ligher values, the lighter wash leeched the dark. The result was that the dark bled into the light areas. I should have waited for the dark areas to dry first. That or painted dark areas last, after the light washes dried, I think. I can lift it later after this mess dries and maybe still have a good painting. I'm not able to do it in one go. My goal is to paint live portraits. I want to make the entire portrait in one go, fast fast fast, for a friend who is sitting for me. Nobody likes to or has the time to pose for more than a few minutes. It's easy enough to take their photo with my camera phone and paint from the photo but pffft. Anybody can do that. I'm still basically a beginner at 1 year with no formal training, and maybe the answer is easy for someone with experience, but this is an ongoing problem for me. Anyway, thanks again for the video.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

I'm going to try this... thanks for inspiring. However ,I'm usually doing wet on wet mostly...unlike you doing as a continuous wash mostly...I think because I don't have confidence in going so fast joining each section quickly as you. I don't know whether my technique of doing very slowly taking my time is correct way of learning in the long run? I m actually following Louise de masi (check her you tube) slow technique but I understand your teaching so well. I think I'm blending both of you in my technique slow path of hers and knowledge of You. What's your opinion? It would be better if you could watch her one video before answering me please🙏

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Hair was easy peazy to look at ...but I don't think that's so easy for me🤪

[@paulbugnacki7107]

It was his upper lip that was too thin