The biggest secret in Watercolour

[@kimrebecca3064]

스코틀랜드는 너무 아름다운 풍광이네요. 언젠가한번 꼭 여행가서 그림도 그려보고싶어요~

[@josegomezamunarriz3844]

Hi Thanks for share your art.Good Job.✨🍀👾🛸

[@karindodge9814]

I love your approach of basic stages. It makes it very approachable for me as a self taught beginner.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Please feel free to join me on Zoom. www.frankwatercolours.com

[@ToddBrittain1963]

Exquisite Frank. When you added the dark green in the lower left-hand corner, the whole thing just went *POP*. Brilliant.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thanks Todd, you are right, as you go darker the lights get lighter by contrast.

[@marypartridge5154]

I just love the way you paint and I love your whold laid back approach. As us painters can be so precious and fussy and self critical. Hardest thing is starting.

[@georgstrodt9203]

Sehr schön die Landschaft und die Stimmung gemalt, ich bin begeistert!!!!!

[@Frankwatercolours]

Ich bin ein traditioneller englischer Landschafts-Aquarelllehrer, Sie sind herzlich willkommen, sich mir anzuschließen. www.frankwatercolours.com

[@marypartridge5154]

I love your no nonsense approach and that you just get on with it. Very British its great.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you, You don't need to be British to paint in a fresh easy way.

[@skysearch88]

Such a very beautiful painting! I loved it when you said something about people not wanting to see dabs of paint but lines. I'm a raw beginner, and I seem to watch a lot of tutorials by (talented) dabbers, but when I try to do it, it looks like exactly what it is: blobs of paint. Maybe I should try the harder work of lines! Anyway, I really enjoyed watching you create magic ... thanks!

[@marygawley2637]

I'v only found you now & how glad i am. I love your style of painting & the finished article is gorgous. Thank you. ❤.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you Mary. You are most welcome to join my regular Wednesday Zoom demo, free for first timers. www.frankwatercolours.com

[@suekeeling3960]

Thank you.I enjoyed watching you produce this beautiful painting.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thanks Sue, little positive comments like this make it all worthwhile.

[@appleknocker56]

You paint so beautifully & keeping those first layers light so the true luminosity can shine through you have mastered! Still a beginner & going in to dark at first learning not best way!

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you for the nice comment. You are so right about retaining luminosity from the start, one of the biggest secrets.

[@inipin510]

Love the reference, love the process, love the beautiful piece of art ❤️ thank you

[@Nogoingback_1]

Love your work. This one is very special thank you! 🎉

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you so much!

[@howtodraw20002]

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ewwwobbie]

I just love this painting!

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you so much.

[@tdbbuzzard4919]

Hi Frank, new subscriber here. I rarely subscribe or comment, but I really like your style of painting and teaching. Can you please do a demo/lesson of your palette, color choices and swatches, and how you do your color wheel in a future episode? Thank you!

[@kennethfisher7013]

I was running out of patience waiting for the paper to dry enough to paint the central cliff. You managed that very well.

[@hardybeverly]

Learned a lot!

[@Frankwatercolours]

That's good to know Beverly, Thanks.

[@maheshsharma1077]

Very impressed, useful & inspired video for beginners artist. I do watercolour painting practice daily. thanks for this video. Frim : Jodhpur Rajasthan India

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you Jodhpur. Join me on Zoom from India for free. www.frankwatercolours.com

[@auldburdlaughin]

I had to laugh when you said it needed a bit of cloud, it's Scotland! My neighbours went to Skye last year for two weeks and didn't see a single mountain the whole time because the cloud and rain obliterated the views! Such a beautiful island if you get the right weather. Great painting Frank, I knew immediately where it was - and I learned a lot from watching and listening, thanks for sharing your knowledge. ❤ from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[@Frankwatercolours]

I love Scotland, when you see the dramatic vistas for the first time, it blows your mind! But the weather is the risk and reward. Thank you for your positive comments.

[@sherryburnett6088]

Lovely painting!

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you Sherry, one of my best, recently sold.

[@nancytestani1470]

Love color..so yummy.

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you 😋

[@zaynakhalid963]

amazing ❤

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you Zayna. ❤

[@joanne6408]

Very nice painting! Might be better for video viewers to see the reference photo in the corner rather than people. It’s hard to make out the paper copy of the photo than it is the digital version. Thanks for posting this video.

[@jeanettecook1088]

Thank you for sharing... 👏 new subscriber. 🎉

[@Frankwatercolours]

That's kind, thank you.

[@dmortelli1]

Beautiful!! New subscriber!😊🎨🖌️

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you, please join me on zoom www.frankwatercolours.com

[@ontheadventuretrails-scotl9389]

Hi Frank, thank you for using our wee clip. 😊🙏

[@Frankwatercolours]

Your films are amazing, thank you for allowing me to use your dramatic ariel clip on my movie.

[@helenalagaxio6107]

Interesante demostración de cómo encarar un paisaje. Con resultado satisfactorio. Muchas gracias por mostrar.

[@judylangmuir3600]

How interesting to do the darker bits and then glaze the medium values later! I've always learned to do it the opposite but your way felt so intuitive that I think I'm going to try it. Thanks! And I think it's a great painting, too!😅

[@Frankwatercolours]

Thank you Judy, hope you give it a try.

[@liviariviello9474]

Stupendo!

[@maryannegunter115]

I love Paynes gray 😊

[@Frankwatercolours]

I don't use Paynes Gray, I mix cool ultramarine and warm sepia and get a more interesting neutral tint. But each to his own, no right way or wrong way in art.

[@Tele-fk4cu]

I love the Paynes Grey colour, but more than any other, it seems to lighten when dry.

[@atheransari8038]

Good

[@annmacbride3100]

Nice!

[@wesmcclaskie3442]

Very nice painting, I'm very new to watercolor tried my first one the other day total disaster, I wasn't using 100% cotton paper. Maybe that was the problem. Any suggestions? THANKS

[@jarilukkarila8434]

And a legendary question, what brushes you used?

[@Frankwatercolours]

Always start the first light wash with a large synthetic mop style brush, use a no.10 round sable for the caligraphy stage, you are drawiung with the brush, it's all about mark making, not dabbing!

[@philipduesbury8218]

Dissapointed to hear you are still using sable brushes, modern synthetic brushes are so good now, we don't have to support animal cruelty. Please reconsider.

[@Frankwatercolours]

@@philipduesbury8218 Right then Philip, I've been in touch with my brush supplier raising your concern, here is the reply... "No animal is killed to make a brush, we are a by-product and use only the tails".

[@Philip-q3s]

Thank you for your reply and not just deleting it. The production of traditional sable brushes involves the use of animal fur, which raises ethical concerns related to animal welfare. Many artists are becoming increasingly conscious of the environmental and ethical impact of their tools, leading them to explore alternatives to traditional sable Sable is banned in the US because the species was grouped into a list of endangered species. Regards Philip.

[@antonellaszilagyi]

It's been a pleasure to follow your demo, I love it a lot! and your explanation! May I ask, as a beginner in watercolour painting, why right after the lightest lights you put the darkest darks? Isn't the value study principle saying that you have to make firs the lightest lights, then the middle values and as last thing and details the darkest darks? Thank you.

[@Frankwatercolours]

You are correct, in watercolour you always start with a light wash, (the local colours), let it dry, then come the mid tones and the drawing with the brush which sometimes gets very dark, as with my demo. Finally come the dark accents, the dark shadow wash for instance. Maybe come on my zoom, free for first timers.

[@antonellaszilagyi]

@@Frankwatercoloursthank you, I will!

[@marygawley2637]

Meant to ask, what brush did you use?. It has a lovely tip.

[@Frankwatercolours]

It's a Rosemary & Co Red Sable 99 series No.10 size, it's brilliant for the calligraphy stage. Come and join me on zoom on a Wednesday. www.frankwatercolours.com

[@chariserrano3723]

👌

[@terischiech]

I think Picasso took fits while he painted. 😄

[@anitaadams2193]

Your photo was in the way

[@Frankwatercolours]

In the way of what? I’m painting a demo from a photo, I’m teaching my students to paint? Don't be so negative.

[@luisAntonio-wi9rq]

So... What was the biggest secret? Oh I see, it is a secret!🙊

[@marypartridge5154]

Its absolutely pure and fantastic for this type of painting. Your manner does not go with how good you. But this is always the case. By the way I think Picasso was a fraud and he stole ideas from everybody else. He was determined to succeed but I dont think he was a natural artist. Like Matisse Gaugin Monet.

[@marypartridge5154]

No Picasso was a monster with women!!!

[@marypartridge5154]

How come the lady is in the top left??? no sorry top right?? Why dont you paint her as she might need attention.!!!

[@etina17000]

Butiful paintings, style etc BUT WHERE IS YOUR SECRETS you promess in the title !? Why this lying title !? Pfff...

[@Frankwatercolours]

The biggest secret in painting is "don't be a slave to what you see, be the master of what you want".

[@shellyc1016]

Can you recommend a good synthetic mop brush and size?

[@etina17000]

@@Frankwatercolours It is not a secret... but the techniques helping be master of what we want, are secrets that painters do not share... Conclusion: when you see somebody promessing you secrets, go away and don't loose your time... Nobody gives you the real techniques he may evenr found...

[@Frankwatercolours]

​@@etina17000 'Secrets of watercolour' is part of my brand, it's not a literal thing. You can be either positive on cynical about what I do, it's clear that you've chosen the latter. Which is OK with me.