Pond Scene Beginner Watercolor Tutorial {Real time)

[@MSKCCooke]

A stopper!! That's what that little thing is!. Lol! Thanks Lindsay!!

[@gwensimmons_gigi1629]

OMG, Lindsay! This is a cool card! Thanks for sharing!! 🥰👍🏾

[@BNHAalltheway]

Love to watch You paint You paint such beautiful pictures

[@daphnecampbelljinnette6808]

Thank you for this! So well shown and explained! Your tip from earlier to be loose not tight is helpful. I have the Koi set and one of the watercolor postcards that fit in the easel lid. I hope to try this painting shortly. I am trying to make the commitment to paint or what least make art of some type every day! I am reading a book about the benefit to becoming a better artist as a result. Painting small and often is the the theme. You are an inspiration! I do it all on the bed because of pain and fatigue from FIBRO and other issues, but you make a lot of examples simplified by your limited palette, enthusiasm and spread joy to me! Thank you bunches! I was born on PEI to missionary parents from Alabama, then lived in New Brunswick until I was 13 1/2. We once vacationed in Bangor, and once on Cadillac Mountain. I feel I know your environment. Now have just arrived to our home in Chattanooga, Tn, after spending winter and spring in Key West for our 12th year. We have joyfully had children, grands, and great grands here from the moment we arrived last Thursday night until last night, (8days) so my crafting supplies that I brought home are beside my bed in tote bags, and hopefully will be organised in four wheel trolleys I bought for that purpose. I look at your site several times a day to see if you have put something new, and I rewatch previous demos! I feel you care about your student peeps, and just thank you again!!

[@wandahellman8955]

Thanks for doing the basics for us beginner watercolorist!

[@amberm.558]

watercolor is so cool because you can be slightly sloppy and it looks beautiful

[@joycevanschoor5997]

U r a good teacher. I am just starting at 75 and I find ur videos very helpful. Thank u.

[@celestialjunipers6829]

I'm here like "how do you make those messy lines"

[@susansullivan4429]

Amber M

[@veronicafuller4353]

i thought they were both very nice. The little differences make them beautiful. loved watching this

[@roseryan1542]

These little paintings are a great help to me as a beginner. Thanks so much for your time and inspiration.

[@DrawingWithFire]

Great quick video Lindsay! 😆

[@krnechols]

I love you happy chatter as you help us create! It's so much fun. I have a long way to go, but I am not one to quit. Watercolor is so much different than oil painting; which is what I started years ago. It's quite a struggle, but I always search for your tutorials. You are very good, and I never lose hope for myself! Thank you so much, Lindsay!

[@colleenhowell9564]

I love this series I hope you keep doing more all the time

[@sallypalmer704]

Thank you so much for making this tutorial. I loved that painting so much I paused it and tried to copy it. I just got back home from a one month vacation in Western Maine and I am very homesick. Please keep the tutorials coming! I love them. You are teaching me soooo much!

[@myrtle_glo]

I absolutely love landscape paintings on watercolor and this video inspired me to keep doing more. Thank you so much for making this video. ♥

[@KarenLeanneCreates2024]

Hi Lindsay! Happy belated Birthday! I just wanted to share this: I have this box with the neon and metallic paints, but I really needed to condense my Mission Gold selection. So, I carefully removed the entire plastic tray... and was able to add 22 of my full pans! I used glue dots. I have 2 different boxes of these tube paints, in 2 metal palettes- so using them was overwhelming. I chose my favorites of the Pure Pigment colors and saved the Koi paints elsewhere. Thanks for the tip! I'll jump back in here and try this pond scene!

[@donnamarie1006]

I LOVE THIS. It was so nice to have your first painting available to look at as you painted the lesson.. I wish you would consider keeping your original up in the corner or somewhere just to help relate to where and what your painting at a particular moment. Thank for all your work! You're such a great teacher!

[@sharonlsmith7912]

I can’t express enough how much your tutorials are helping me with my confidence, please do more🤗Sharon from Australia

[@thefrugalcrafter]

thanks!

[@radmamadread]

i’m here in 2024, learning from you! i’m just starting to learn watercolor and love your teaching style! thank you!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

You are so welcome!

[@lindathaxton1994]

Love your landscapes! Vibrant, very pleasing to the eye, fun to paint! Thank you

[@samisnotfunny]

Today was my first time painting with water colours and your video was so helpful and easy to follow, I really enjoyed it, thank you!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

welcome to your watercolor journey! I am so excited for you!

[@mooseballet]

You make it look so easy Lindsay! Thanks so much for the tutorial - lovely painting!

[@g.natran]

Please do more tutorials like these! I find them very helpful! Great job by the way!

[@artbyphoebeflagg4615]

Thank you, Lindsay. Your explantions are great, especially for us newbies. I bet it was a beautiful experience just to see those beautiful colors, smelling the pines, and hearing the water lapping onto the beach.

[@Faerysong1]

Hi Lindsay, I have this set, I bought it right after you demoed it, I think it was about 2yrs ago. I really like it, it has a nice big area to mix colors, and I love the way it's set up. Anyway Thanks as always for your time and talent. Alice

[@frankie4257]

Great vid lindsay. . Few have asked me about water flow thru brush ... easy way I do is hold pen tip down and squeeze slightly and watch water flow to bristles ... just helps getting used to using them

[@عايضعايض-ث6ت]

You are the past artists ..... Thank you for this video😊

[@jeanieferretti4203]

Love how the painting turned out and you did it so fast! Thanks for the great video!

[@influentialolive]

I have watched this video a few times... I Love it... I love "today's " water color! It's far less stressful than the "1980s full rule, dry between colors" water color techniques I Could Not reform to... I often say, Art classes Almost destroyed my inner artist. I am all natural, unconventional, and, starting to sell pieces, at 42 years old. Not too bad, in the grand scheme of things.

[@susananthony2084]

Thank you so much for this. I am finding my learning capabilities through your beginner tutorials. Soooooo pretty. I just LOVE your painting and drawing style.

[@stardavis9193]

Love your tutorials. Your awesome.

[@kyla1080]

This video is where I started doing watercolor portraits. I started back in 2017 and I used cheap watercolor tubes and it still did the job. Unfortunately I haven't bought pans instead I stick with tubes and made a customized one. Thank you for making me love watercolors and art. I've been finding this video for years now hahaha I just wanna say thank you 💖

[@cloverrabbit5622]

Just gave this tutorial a try. I have a small palette of watercolors and I'm not very good at mixing colors. I will continue practicing though! Thanks Lindsay!

[@elp7267]

Thanks so much for all the videos you post! You're a great teacher and I love your personality :) these tutorials are super helpful

[@muralistl]

Love the colors and thank you for your tutorials. I look forward everyday for them.....

[@graciesmom2019]

I love this little scene!

[@Usdukes]

Certainly enjoyed this!!!

[@cathiyool3971]

great work Lyndsey

[@marciec6859]

Thank you, thank you!! I so enjoyed this video since I have the same pallet and found this to be a true beginner tutorial. I really enjoy your channel and tell crafty friends about you all the time. I'm so excited that you might do more easy watercolor tutorials like this one.

[@nandinirangaswamy9870]

best paintings and easy to make GO LINDSY GO

[@caitlinpretty4652]

Yay! Thank you for giving us a tutorial!!! We love you ☺️☺️☺️

[@emilydecker4804]

Ah thank youuuuuu I have this pallet and I love it. I love this and will definitely will be painting it soon!

[@elaine-cb]

Hi Lindsay! Thanks for sharing this..... I haven't touched my watercolours for over five years, I felt stuck in a rut with my class and struggled to achieve the spirit or essence of a watercolour with a looseness that I desired. And painting landscapes and capturing that moment in nature was important to me. So, I have just watched this video and I feel inspired again! I love the idea of the simplicity with the water brush and thought the Koi set was ideal. I don't care if it's not professional standard pigments !!! I can leave those locked up someplace and enjoy the freedom of no pressure and NOT seeking perfection! I am straight on to Amazon UK and ordering it tonight! I think this will work so neatly and be fun when I go out in my campervan! So thank you very much!

[@journalkitty3957]

I love watching you paint so relaxing and you make it look so effortless! It's been a while since I've used watercolour but want to give it another go and try to relax into it rather than stress, which I think my issue was last time I was trying too hard and getting frustrated. TFS love that beach scene looks idyllic xx

[@jeramie795ivy3]

I just bought my first water color set and your tutorial was very helpful

[@coldmountainpix]

the 11 people that didnt like this had to have hit it by accident! This is such a nice summer scene- I am so going to paint this! in CT we have a lot of beachy/pond/lake areas that look just like that- i just love this little scene :)

[@ao.3210]

no, she is so anoying

[@Blissfulthings]

love this sketch Lindsey, I think you used all my favourite colours ...very calming to look at! thank you 🌺🌹🏵🏵🌹🌸💐

[@charlesgreco6964]

What a talent you are.

[@tobycompton3638]

Very inspiring!:) I'm going out and buying some paints and that water pen tomorrow! Thanks for the video :)

[@ebyn77]

Thank you for sharing, this is the sweetest little painting!

[@al4m3]

thank you! i've just received my watercolor container and i had no idea what to do and i've stumbled across your video and im so glad i did! not bad for first attempt totally subscribed

[@oscy2000]

I gotta get this watercolor kit you have. I see how useful it is and I have a drawing on standby for its colors. Thank you for sharing

[@debbieporter8610]

You are an Amazing Artist, Thank you so much

[@excitokelvin3647]

I like your brush ..your painting was also great....

[@tyedye571]

I really enjoyed this. I tried making one and it didn't turn out half bad! I'd like to see more beginner Tut's with landscapes. I have a similar set of Koi paints and I love the brush pen. The bladder is the softest and squishiest of all the ones I have. It's my favorite.

[@AmyJackson-_-85]

Mine broke 😭

[@danakolpin1289]

A very good painting once again. Would this painting be a good beginner's painting to do? Dana

[@jaytriestoplay3647]

I love your personality so much you actually bring me brightness in my day! Thank you for the wonderful videos they're helping inspire me so much, I just bought my first watercolor supplies today because of your videos 🙂 hope you're having a wonderful holiday season so far hun!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

+Felinne Crenshaw thank you!

[@Kathy-ju1hy]

Yes! It is exciting to do a demo on ) thats really just so pretty!!!

[@cliffordstephens2661]

I have to give it to you lady. you are one bad motor scooter as grandpa say. your work is beautiful and I have been watching you for a while and thank you

[@thefrugalcrafter]

+Clifford Stephens thanks!

[@ebknight74]

I would live a video comparing waterbrush pens. Loved this little demo.

[@karrotlucy2477]

I just love your videos, they are so helpful and inspiring!!! Thank you Lindsay

[@SLime-nf5vb]

Weee! That was so fun and easy peasy! Hope to see more of these little real time paintings with you. I wish you would give name of your watercolor group you enjoy so much. There's so many on FB and I would love to get a recommendation. Till next time, Ciao!

[@mworkman4]

Thank you for all the tutorials you provide us. This is truly amazing! You make it look so easy. I would love to learn how to watercolor. I've dabbled in it, but doing a painting like this would feel awesome. Guess I better start practicing.

[@jessicachan6273]

I love your work! You got to do more tutorials like these small short paintings.

[@Kraftykathy29]

So pretty you. Asking painting look so easy. I try and it never comes out the way you do it . Thankyou for sharing

[@RichBoden]

Keep re-painting the same painting daily, file them by date once dry. Look at each one and work out what you're doing wrong / not enough water, too much paint etc - show someone experienced if unsure. After 2 weeks you will see improvement, it's much easier with same painting over and over as you get better at some parts of it each time until it looks as it should. Never fear painting - just slap it on and have fun - it's only paper, after all.

[@daphnecampbelljinnette6808]

Great advice! I should do that, too!

[@RichBoden]

+Daphne Campbell Jinnette It works well and it forces you to paint every day which helps a lot. If you get bored, use two paintings and do them on alternate days.

[@sandraschafroth8573]

Looks great!! You do make it look so easy.

[@keliincibulan]

It's so helpful thank you for sharing this.. i have made it and this is my first time using sakura watercolor. I hope u will make any turtorial with sakura watercolor again. I wait for it😊

[@cyndiegran]

I just discovered your tutorials. I plan to use some of your landscapes and floral paintings as a base for my Bible memory verses from the book of John. I have a small (6X9 in.) watercolor Strathmore spiral pad. You help give me the confidence to paint, even though I don't really know what I'm doing!

[@doumkatekz]

4:26 - far right one is cobalt blue hue, far left one row under is cerulean. I wrote them down from another video after being driven crazy by this same sort of issue

[@jensnewlife5281]

it's the stuff like learning things should get brighter and more vibrant as they come closer that I need to learn. I also need to quit doubting myself and the process.

[@isalawton6239]

Lovely.... You inspired me again... Thanks

[@Joe_Maysky]

Gorgeous Linday! I have to say, the one drawback of this set for me that, though it was great when I first started, is that, as you said, the colors didn't mix very purely. The Greeny blue in the third row is what I believe they call Cerulean, Ultramarine is next to it, and the second row is cobalt, but none with perhaps the exception of Ultramarine really match a true artist pigment well. I also had trouble mixing a sap-like green from the four in the set (the viridian & phthalo green are strong & the paler yellow green is pretty light). I'd still use this in a bind, but my Turner & Daniel Smith equipped Pike palette will always be my first choice. I'd even still bring the Pike on vacation if I did a pencil or ink sketch in the field & added color later.

[@RichBoden]

A lot of Phthalo blue plus a filler and granulation medium used for Cerulean (should be a cobalt pigment), ditto Cobalt Blue. Viridian will be Phthalo Green BS with a granulation medium and the other Phthalo Green will be the YS, I'm guessing. Ultramarine is now cheap to make so student kits do get the real thing, albeit with filler. Cobalt pigments are costly so never included. When I buy student half pan sets for en plein air my caveat is that I have to be able to remove and swap colours as I want rid of black/white etc immediately, of course.

[@Joe_Maysky]

+Rich Boden thanks always! Unrelated to this video, but what do you think about Bismuth Orthovanadate for a cool yellow Rich? It seems like it pulls a little less green visually than some of the nickel based cooler yellows, which I don't mind and use to my advantage when mixing but used purely can pull a bit too green for my liking.

[@RichBoden]

+Joe Maysky I have Bismuth Vanadate Yellow but seldom use it. It is VERY bright and being opaque and as you say, very cold, it muds quite easily. It mixes ok with transparent dyes - Phthalo Blue GS, Phthalo Green YS, Quinacridone Gold, some transparent cold reds like Quin Rose mix with it too, but you get somewhat earthy orange-browns, which are not un-useful. It can sometimes separate from mixes but oxgall remedies that. I would avoid minerals for mixes like Cobalt Blue etc - the over-granulation is annoying and pseudo-muddy. My main cold yellow is Nickel Titanate, which is not grey at all unless you use it very thick - a little goes a long way, for a mineral pigment. Hansa Yellows can be useful also if you prefer a dye. Nickel Azo Yellow (a dye not a mineral) is a nice warmer yellow and a good alternative to most Gamboges which contain it plus other pigments that tend to make Gamboges give muddy mixes. There is a lemon I have yet to try - a praseodymium silicate - which granulates.

[@RichBoden]

+Joe Maysky I'll do a video on it for Colour Chemistry - I need to do one on yellows in general.

[@Joe_Maysky]

+Rich Boden fantastic. I need to look up the pigment composition of the "Permanent Lemon" that I have from Turner-- I'm less of a fan of it the more I use it sadly due to its green leanings, so I guess I just want something a little more neutral. I like the Cad Yellow Lights as well but as we know they're more opaque.

[@meghan6552]

I am waiting for this set in the mail, i am a beginner and i have been so nervous and unable to find useful guidance. this video was excellent, favorited!

[@ianjackson5834]

NICE LITTLE EXERCISE, AM SURE YOUR CLASS WILL LOVE IT AND LEARN LOADS

[@thefrugalcrafter]

+Ian Jackson (iajackx71) they did great and I had 15 show up so I am so glad I picked a simple one:)

[@daphnecampbelljinnette6808]

Just watched it again! Love it! I have the Koi set, so need to locate it in the rubble we brought from Key West. I am keeping the little "Confections" TROPICAL and Primary tins right beside my bed, but love using what you do if I have them.

[@chocosherry19]

thanks. You made it sounds so relaxing

[@strikeshadowgaming7863]

4th love all your artwork

[@chlexiel.1022]

She makes me feel like I can do this 😊

[@gourmetsoul4831]

Chlexie L. You can!!

[@Julia-pl6to]

I luv u now thank u thank u thank u I'm a beginner and I have that koi watercolor set and this helped so much I learned some new techniques so thank u 😁😁😄😃😆😀😃👍👍👍👍😸😺

[@craftydegrasse3679]

I was hoping you would do this painting! It's so lovely!💜😄

[@jensnewlife5281]

I really like this thanks for demo I learned a few things and will likely give it a try. It will be my 3rd time with watercolors

[@thefrugalcrafter]

you are doing great! Keep it up!

[@janetkatz2126]

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[@janetkatz2126]

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[@RichBoden]

Have a look at the type of sponge I found and used in my v recent Cotman en plein air video - it cleans waterbrushes amazingly as it is quite abrasive (it is a facial cleansing sponge but it is identical to the yellow sponges used in soldering) - you may find having a piece en plein air handy for brush and palette cleaning.

[@AafkeVultink]

Jeaaah thanks :P I was waiting for this one :P I allways have issues with water and shading. I like to mix summer green from sap and burnt sienna or a tint darker brown. Think the sap is pretty but feels more spring like then like a mid summer green.

[@barbfuller6091]

Just purchased the same travel kit after watching your video. A C Moore had it for $30, then I used a one day only 55% coupon. Having fun learning to paint with you.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

+Barb Fuller good deal! That is how I got mine!

[@sha8808]

i bought this same watercolour set from michaels with my 50% off coupon! it's pretty decent quality and I'm glad I went with this!

[@gilligalue]

Thanks for this Lindsay! I actually did this one today! This was only my 2nd ever w.c. painting! Didn't turn out anywhere near as good as yours, of course. But it seems good enough to send as a greeting card. I posted it on the Frugal Crafter Community page.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

cool, I will look for it!

[@gilligalue]

Well, Lindsay, actually I had to take it off of the FB page. I didn't realize until I put it up, that everyone on FB can see that I did! This painting is on a greeting card that is going to be a sympathy card. So, I didn't want the people I'm sending it to to see it on FB.. at least not yet. I did put it in the Angelooney FB page though. :-)

[@karemmathes1443]

Love it. Can wait to try it.

[@DistractedDaisy]

that was really nice.

[@RichBoden]

That's such a cute painting - I'm (tomorrow!) swapping the 'Cadmium' hues in my unused Cotman Sketcher Set I got for £7.79 in the sale (12 half pans), going to bin the black and white and replace with some colours I really like to use - probably Cobalt Blue and Indian Red. I may swap the Viridian for Perylene Green and maybe get Perylene Maroon in there too as they make amazing neutral greys and are fun for painting plants with. I'm going to (today!) make a Weirich Watercolour Block and carry that set and block in my work bag at all times so if I catch a nice sunset on the way home, I can stop and paint it. Easy.

[@ethansev6485]

chees e That's seven pounds not dollars. But I seven pounds is still pretty cheap compared to $30 😂

[@elizabethmacchi509]

Love it!

[@teresadoyle1396]

These are both beautiful Lindsay, I think I almost like the second one best. LOL So a fantastic job on both! I JUST bought my first set of decent water colours today as I want to learn. They are Winsor & Newton Cotman water colours. I can't seem to find any videos where anyone is actually using the same ones. Its the compact set with 14 half pans. I am not great finding things on here either so I wondered if you could steer me in the right direction? Thanks in advance if you can.

[@almahughes7636]

Thank you so much for sharing all of this!

[@christinabartonart1072]

this is so cool!

[@angelascott574]

Thank you and I am going to try this!

[@gen8209]

Thanks for the great little tutorial Lindsey! I too have this Koi travel box and enjoy taking it out and about with me. I am fairly new to field sketching, do you already have a video which might share some more of your field sketching tips/tricks? Thank you!! :)

[@alyciawieler2800]

Nice! still more advanced then I can paint, I hope you don't mind I shared your kids tissue paper craft on my Facebook and my friend is teaching it to some kids

[@ChristinaFurnerWebber]

Beautiful Lindsay! I so wish we had someone like you in my area to teach!! You say this is easy? Ha! I dunno about that😀 I'm just about to give up TRYING to paint as nothing comes out. Before I get started I'm like I know I can do this and everything is just awful. Maybe I'm just not a watercolorist? Oh well, I still love to watch you paint and I love your tutorials! Thank you so much!!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

+Christina Webber they say it takes 10000 hours to master a skill, I am sure you can do it , be kind to yourself and have fun:)

[@ChristinaFurnerWebber]

+thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich Thank you Lindsay! I'll keep trying😉

[@roseryan1542]

I'm learning watercolor too. There's always an awful stage, but I've done enough to know that it gets better if I work through it. If I'm frustrated, I just walk away and come back later. It's been great so far. Try doing a single item small painting before tacking something like landscape. That might help. I've painted everything from a slice of bread ( yep, that's right lol ) to a piece of cake, a shoe, s bird's nest with eggs, a goblet and a single flowers. I'm loving watercolor now. Doing items that didn't require a composition was a good confidence builder for me.

[@ChristinaFurnerWebber]

+Rose Ryan Thank you so much for your help😆 I was attempting to draw what I thought would be a simple flower, thinking it'd look better once I painted it. LOL, no way. But I absolutely understand where you're coming from as I've thought to just start again with something simple and practice over and over until the item is at LEAST recognizable LOL, maybe even making it to the ugly stage hahahaha😊 Thanks again Rose (my mom's name too) for your encouragement!!

[@RichBoden]

My best tip honestly is find a simple (in the sense of 10 minutes long, a few colours) painting like this or Lindsay has lovely little fishing boat one somewhere and lighthouse one too - all 3-colour easy ones. Paint it every day and when dry, put them in a file with the date on each one. After 2 weeks of the same painting each day and each day trying to analyse your mistakes (show it to people with experience, if you don't know what you did wrong - no one will laugh at you - folk want to help) you WILL see serious improvement. It's a good way to iron out a lot of technique errors quite fast.

[@lindacolgan6412]

Hey Lindsey, loved this video,I have trouble with tree foliage can you please have a video on this and do trees like you did. Thank you

[@julietbonilla7853]

very lovely thank you for your tutorial

[@CouzCat]

Thanks Lindsay! Your videos are so helpful. I believe I'll act on your comment regarding the Kois: the brush & palette alone make it worthwhile. I've found it surprisingly difficult to find a decent folding one even at the art stores. The best one I found online is the Schmincke & it empty is $35 CDN. You mentioned the Kois are not quite as good as the Cotman. I'm guessing you're referring to the Sketcher line?

[@rainspren]

Thought I'd note that it is the Cobalt Blue Hue that she keeps returning to, mixed with the Cerulean Blue Hue, and that the Sakura Koi set is working beautifully for me as a beginner! It's got most of the colours I keep finding in tutorials. Hope that helps anyone trying to follow along.

[@Cas612]

Great painting! TFS! You make the rocks look so easy to paint. My rocks look like they are floating in the air! Any tips?