Watercolor Tutorial - How to paint in a loose style - my 5 Tips by Tim Wilmot #43

[@craiggross9629]

FANTASTIC!

[@TimWilmot]

Many thanks!

[@Malcolm701]

Great! The paradox is that impressionism looks more real than the attempt to paint photo realistically.

[@TimWilmot]

I agree with you.

[@JamesPliny]

I agree. For me I sort of wonder where the composition is going and then suddenly at the end it comes together as a wonderful arrangement that looks "real" as you put it, in spite of the very loose brush strokes and washes. Emergent phenomenon perhaps.

[@patsymccown2766]

Love this tutorial! Very informative..thanks!

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ternelternel]

I loved the way you explain and doing your artwork at the same time in real-time, not in a hi-speed demo.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for the feedback

[@theoriginalwah]

Show off. Bloody amazing.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@omaracosta1264]

Buenísimos consejos Tim gracias!

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure

[@nahidroma7505]

Very beautiful, Thanks.

[@TimWilmot]

Many thanks!

[@JosieViolet]

The one stroke boat at 26.21 was sooo satisfying to watch! Makes me realise the importance of using fewer strokes and keeping things fresh.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Josie

[@sheilalll9547]

I enjoy watching you paint and am listening carefully to your tips. As you mentioned, it takes practice and good instruction to advance in watercolor.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for joining my Patreon club

[@carogray1]

Fabulous loose painting.. instructions and capture.. and what great tips.. this was so informative.. love the loose shapes.. the colors the sunlight shapes and shadows .. thank you so much..

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for your lovely comments Caroline

[@ITSARTWORLD2001]

Really enjoyed

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you enjoyed

[@rameshbandekar1557]

Very Beautiful.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ChristyPino]

This is a great video for earning loose painting.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad you think so!

[@andyt4198]

I certainly need to loosen up somewhat. Lovely painting Tim. I do love granulation effect in watercolour. Especially in skies and water. Just trying out Archers 140 rough and that seems to help. Sort of encourages you to be Freer in th processes. I was reading and looking carefully at the the work of Trevor Chamberlain! I still cannot fathom how he can control a simple wash the way he does. Regards Andy

[@TimWilmot]

Hi Andy! Your comment made my day. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the painting and the granulation effect. Trevor Chamberlain is definitely a master at controlling washes, and I'm constantly inspired by his work. Thank you for your support and encouragement. It means the world to me!

[@maggiefreeman6513]

Great tips thanks.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@donnaramdin1454]

You have got an amazing skill .... so natural once your brush touches paper.making it look so so easy... .. .beautiful painting

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Donna

[@maggs131]

I admire and appreciate watercolor artists who can achieve hyper realistic works but in my opinion watercolor looks best loose as you have demonstrated beautifully. I struggle with my loose style still but your videos certainly help

[@TimWilmot]

Glad they have helped maggs

[@nbcclaytor]

Excellent ! I struggle with eliminating from the painting and doing just the bigger shapes. This was very helpful. Thanks!

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@CamiloMazorra]

Tim wonderful videos. They have helped me a lot

[@TimWilmot]

Glad they have helped

[@orcamum]

What an excellent video/lesson! Thank you very much!

[@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.

[@deborahwright2318]

Really helpful video! This is how my best work looks...just keep fighting the urge to be completely loose. Love this...thank you!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Deborah

[@simolasri]

Beautiful happy painting 👍🏻🙏

[@TimWilmot]

Many many thanks

[@jandean9268]

I stood up to paint today and, as you suggested, it made a huge difference. The distance was a great help in making judgements and choices and I worked from the shoulder more so that brushstrokes were much looser. At the end of the afternoon I was knackered but very happy with what I’d done. Thank you.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Jan. Maybe try a stool and keep the same distance from the paper?

[@jandean9268]

The knackeration is entirely worth it! I'm converted.

[@TimWilmot]

Good to hear

[@miziso]

I ove your work Tim. Thanks a lot!!!

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure!

[@gina-mariaweigel3821]

Thank you Tim. Beautiful work and explanations

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Gina

[@jenjournals2235]

Thank you for sharing. I'm a beginner and my paintings are tight and overworked. I want to improve. I'm going to try these tips. Thanks again!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. You can have a go yourself and get a critique from me. More information on my Patreon site www.patreon.com/timwilmot

[@356cayyolu]

Thank you Tim for your kind sharing.

[@TimWilmot]

Tesekur

[@gunaydinhm]

As usual, perfect video from Tim again. Thanks for your sharing. You give very good insights for watercolor. I love the technique, explanation and luminous colors...

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Murat

[@simonazzopardi6294]

Another great one , thanks Tim. Very educational and great to watch.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Simon

[@nootsuriyaporn9140]

Thanks a bunch , very useful demo 😍

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@AliceykWong]

Thank you so much for sharing your skills. I followed your tips and I painted along with your video and I really think that has helped me to paint more loosely. I really enjoyed that. 8-)

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks AYK and glad it helped

[@brianparnell2256]

A terrific painting as usual Tim but with added inspirational aims for someone like myself.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. You can have a go yourself and get a critique from me. More information on my Patreon site www.patreon.com/timwilmot

[@peterdeeduffield9018]

Remarkably nice 40 minute watercolour painting Tim, I say this as a photo/realistic oil painter. I find it fascinating & very enjoyable. Lovely presentational style. Well done & thank you Peter dee.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Peter. I admire your patience for your style of painting

[@robertmansell3667]

Absolutely fascinating to watch after the first couple of washes even if I’d got them the same as yours I would’ve torn up the painting as a dark muddy mess,watching the painting dry and develop into such a beautiful luminous image was truly amazing,when I’m doing line and wash sketches I hold my pen half way down the barrel and don’t anchor my hand on the paper as you would when writing,it definitely makes your marks more expressive.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Robert for sharing how you go about it and thanks for watching

[@khalidahmedmecci2872]

Thanks Tim your video was very helpful!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Khalid

[@en3356]

Thank you, always enjoying watching your videos.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Elena

[@mariapop779]

It looks great! Thanks for tutorial!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Mimi

[@placidop.c.]

thak you very much for this great work. Congratulations Tim.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@arlenemurphy804]

Love it. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us. Great tips

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@thejoke314]

Thank's mister, amazing art as always!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Maik

[@amol5893]

It's wonderful.!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Amol

[@curlykale]

Brilliant, you are superb and so generous! Thank you!

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@arunasobti]

Beautiful!!!!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Aruna

[@bjezl]

Thanks, Tim! Very helpful. I tend to draw in too much detail. Love especially the tip about holding the brush toward its middle or end.

[@TimWilmot]

Glad it helped

[@michaeltalbot8242]

Excellent work rim as for bands temperatures are stratisphied in the atmosphere or called thermoclimes in the sea that might help

[@TimWilmot]

Ooh thanks for that Michael

[@lucillefemine]

Very helpful. Thaks. I've loosened up while watching :)

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Lucille

[@nidiapearson6542]

Thanks for the demo!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Nidia

[@michaelpfenning4276]

I always look forward to your next painting. Well done.

[@TimWilmot]

I have to think up the next one now....

[@guavavodka]

Awesome! Thanks for making a tutorial, it's about time, everyone wants to see it :D

[@TimWilmot]

I hope so. Spread the word!

[@pjs3514]

Beautiful

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Pam

[@14watecolormore]

I love your channel. Great painting.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@antoniatiu9355]

Thank you Tim. Am glad i subscribed to your channel.Interestingly helpful tips to "loosen up" watercolor technique.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you for subscribing

[@andrew98115wl]

Love it!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Andrew

[@libbyfuntera8497]

Thankyou Tim. I can really feel the warm, sunny day. Wonderful tips-I will keep trying to adapt to loose painting with more practice. I love the way you can take a complicated scene and simplify, but create such an appealing painting. And will try the standing up technique.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. You can have a go yourself. More information on my Patreon site www.patreon.com/timwilmot

[@karenkornbau5050]

wonderful video

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Karen

[@SharonCullenArt]

Excellent tips Tim. I am one of those tight painters. I get very bogged down in details and can easily overwork a painting. I want to learn to paint more loosely. Standing up is a difficult one for me because my hands get shaky! Or maybe they get tired. But I will try this today for sure. And I tend to take too long. I am a slow painter. I am going to set a timer initially for 30 minutes and if not finished I will reevaluate how much painting I have left to do and reset my timer. And just like a jogger, I will try to break that timer daily. This is my kind of jogging!!! HA! 🤣 Thanks so much.

[@buddyparrot1]

You can use a stick, or rod, to rest your arm on. look at oil painters, they do this to steady there hands.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks for watching. You can have a go yourself and get a critique from me. More information on my Patreon site www.patreon.com/timwilmot

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Leo and that's a really good idea

[@SharonCullenArt]

Tim Wilmot thanks. I will check it out.

[@JBD1116]

Tim -- Another wonderful demo and painting! I am sharing this with my w/c colleagues to help them "loosen" up! Later!! John

[@TimWilmot]

Hope they like it

[@birrapampa]

thanks, Master!!

[@TimWilmot]

My pleasure

[@vadimpetrov9055]

Замечательно!!!

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you

[@Terry-xf8uh]

Great instruction. Thanks so much for sharing your talent and wisdom. I'm inspired!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Terry

[@daleshawn1910]

This is fantastic and answers so many of my questions. Thank you!

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Dale

[@torrynerheim2887]

nice

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@cyendsj]

Beautiful luminous painting.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Marmas

[@barbaragemin5117]

I think you've hit on what I , and I'm sure others, struggle with in watercolour Tim and that is simplifying a reference photo. Yours was particularly complex and I was curious to see how you did that. Interestingly, you brought the whole scene nearer the viewer. I would've kept the ferry building distant. This was a way to simplify. Your tip of only seeing and painting the forms and shapes. Seems obvious now. No details. Let's see if I can learn from this demo. Thank you.

[@mrjudders1]

Hello Barbara you are spot on! The key is to find a way to simplify the subject by leaving out, blocking areas of the composition, not easy but Tim has demonstrated this well in what could be a very complex picture. The 'artist' squint is another way of cutting out unnecessary detail.

[@barbaragemin5117]

David Judd The squint, yes David I'd forgotten about that, you're right. Sigh, another thing to remember.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks David

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Barbara

[@TimWilmot]

You can have a go yourself Barbara. More information on my Patreon site www.patreon.com/timwilmot

[@m96920]

Wow so great! Sadly this type of painting needs of so expensive paper.

[@TimWilmot]

Well note really but cotton based is best

[@safi456]

Hello Tim, as usual you've made it look so easy. Do you ever have to think about what colours you will use, or is it just instinctive and happens as you go? Thanks to you I've fallen in love with alizarin crimson, its my absolute fav shade these days. Please could you do a video on how to draw architecture loosely but accurately? As in, if the subject matter is a building, say a church, and I want to give enough detail to be recognisable and for the church to be the subject matter, but also for the building to be drawn accurately? I really struggle with architectural drawings, what with numerous (often un-identifiable) vanishing points and goodness knows what.

[@TimWilmot]

That is a brilliant idea for a future video. I think I would have to choose Venice - loads of architecture and details! Thanks for watching and the suggestion.

[@rajankumar_art]

Nice painting & techniques

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks Rajan

[@MrMoykanal]

Thank you

[@shirleyrichardson5773]

momchil gergo

[@TimWilmot]

👍

[@poocky100]

Nice

[@TimWilmot]

👍

[@karlnapf5099]

Hello Tim, it would be nice if the videos had German subtitles. But should not be a criticism, I think all the clips are great. Keep it up and thank you. I'm looking forward to the next one

[@TimWilmot]

On KZbin you should be able to select subtitles and your local language (button in bottom right)

[@arthurkoopmanswatercolors]

Stand up from your chair and rise, and paint loosely! :-)

[@TimWilmot]

That's the plan!

[@1Thedairy]

A beautiful painting and demo. Thank you for sharing. A few questions if I may? a) Did you stretch your paper before mounting with tape and did you wet your paper before starting? I think this can make the world of difference if you are painting wet on wet. b) once you’ve done your drawing how often do you refer to your reference as I find this one of the biggest problems in that if I relate too much to the photo I start to get too bogged down in detail. c) Do you sort your colour scheme out before you start? Personally I need to follow some kind of method first i.e find the lights and darks, get the tonal shades right first but you just seem to follow by instinct and make it look so easy!

[@soniavonwalter]

Nice

[@TimWilmot]

a) No and no. I know some who wet whole paper and then paint b) Yes to check values and colours c) Yes. I look at my subject and seek the main colours

[@kjellkanin]

Amazing work! You mention in the video that your earlier painting style was a bit more tight. Are these earlier works possible to see somewhere? I'm fairly new to watercolor and painting in a loose style such as this seems so unattainable at the moment. It would be interesting to see the development of your style. Thanks for these great videos!

[@TimWilmot]

That's a good idea. I will dig up some I did as a teenager

[@marcpaull39]

Tim, many thanks for another excellent, loose, watercolour tutorial. With regards to standing up while painting; I presume the surface you are painting on is at normal desk height and so therefore you are almost working at arms length to the painting? If so then that must take some getting used to. Also, do you do the sketches standing up?

[@TimWilmot]

Hi Marc. Yes the painting is at desk/table height. When I have my easel, again it is probably at table height. Yes, the sketch would be done standing also.

[@craftwithbellajane8534]

Marc Paull of

[@chayita7]

Great tutorial. I have never figured out how to notice, and how to, initially, leave uncovered tiny white spots/areas. Would using white gouache after the painting dries look too artificial?

[@TimWilmot]

Yes it would I think. But I have not tried it myself

[@rupasivaraman1790]

Beautiful painting, I so love your loose impressionistic style. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. A doubt... How much does one need to look into the reference photo while painting?

[@TimWilmot]

I would say regularly. Almost every few minutes or so.

[@rupasivaraman1790]

Tim Wilmot thank you very much, Mr.Wilmot

[@chawacha4805]

Can you post a link to the brush you use? I’d really like to find one for myself

[@TimWilmot]

They are sold world wide Raphael Softaqua series 805

[@CarosLines]

Lovely work - but I've been scared off Alizarin Crimson (incl. Permanent Alizarin Crimson) by all the talk about it being rather fugitive - have you found it to be sufficiently permanent or is it that you don't mind it fading? (I've tended to use in sketchbooks only!)

[@TimWilmot]

I find it permanent. Maybe if it was under strong UV maybe not???

[@CarosLines]

Ever since I said this I've thought I ought to do my own permanency test - really must set one up - thanks for replying!

[@grunherzjg-5443]

😍👍

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@z.z.1205]

Which size of your raphael brushes do you use the most on quarter or half sheets? Thx alot

[@TimWilmot]

It would be size 6 mainly.

[@z.z.1205]

Thx alot. Good to know. I dont gave a brush that would stay sharp flat. My brushes all spring back to normal position.

[@StephenMarkTurner]

Tim, do you use the actual PR83 pigment in your choice for Alizarin Crimson? Thanks.

[@TimWilmot]

Yes I believe they use PR83

[@ruthclarke-linell1329]

Stephen Turner 🚉

[@vikisart]

What brand of water colors do you use? I enjoyed your demo and your final work.

[@TimWilmot]

Winsor and Newton mainly

[@vikisart]

Thank you. Switching from oils to water color, and getting away from detail: having been a muralist out of necessity, I'm going to learn a lot from you. Love your work!!!

[@EkeiShao]

Too many commercials interrupting the video

[@TimWilmot]

You can watch ad free as a Patreon Member

[@EkeiShao]

@@TimWilmot rude

[@nrdecastro]

🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹❤️

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks

[@mouradandaloussi7888]

Merci MONSIEUR, pour catte vidéo qui on votéz contre ou es le probleme la peinture 'C' les sentations la touche personnelle de L'ARTISTE bien sur et surtout l'aquarelle on a pas le temps il faut prendre une déscion toute de suite on peu pas essai ..Mourad Artiste peintre.

[@TimWilmot]

Merci beaucoup

[@dianequinn1500]

You are a beautiful painter, admired, I know, by many eminent KZbin artists, however the difference between where you are and where most of us are is insurmountable, so whilst I love watching you paint, I can't take much from you to apply to my own work. This is a shame. You talk to your audience as you work but you don't teach technique in any detail, and so I leave your channel, albeit reluctantly, to learn from others who are perhaps more forthcoming, or more prepared to break down the process so others can assimilate it. Love your work and aspire to be as loose in my own work. Sorry to sound critical. It's hard to put into words the difference between your teaching style and the style of others I could mention.

[@TimWilmot]

Thank you Diane and you raise a very good point. With my channel I want to show full length videos rather than short tutorials "how to do a wash" " how to paint an animal". I know there are so many videos out there that do that and that's not really my thing. I suppose I am speaking to people who are not real beginners. I will try and mention some basic techniques in future videos or you just take one element of what I am doing for yourself...?

[@johnfisherart9237]

you sound a lot like a toned down Charlie Brooker

[@TimWilmot]

Hmmm interesting. Not sure if that's good or bad

[@johnfisherart9237]

@@TimWilmot Well, I'm a big fan of his, so not meant as an insult.. I just had to do a double take when i heard you start to speak!

[@millenniumcorp7334]

Good tutorial.

[@TimWilmot]

Thanks