LOOSE watercolour painting tutorial

Very good tutorial!! I love ur teaching style

I enjoyed this video so much
Very brave
I don’t have courage to try something like this

Thank you for your coaching ❤

Oh Tom you make it look so easy. When I get the brush it all goes wrong! Keep practising I guess 🤪

This looks like finally something that can make me feel I can do loose watercolour

Beautiful painting; thank you for sharing your tips. It would be a dream to one day paint like you

So inspired after watching a few of your videos. So free, yet illustrated well. I am pursuing with determination.

awesome!

this is wild man..... that's so beautiful. thank you very much for sharing :)

Tom, did you use some type of masking fluid or are you very steady making hard edges. E.g. highlights on the horns.

This blew my mind actually. I have always wanted to hear exactly the break down of using multiple colours that aren’t true to the subject but still keeping the integrity of the image. ( For any medium really ) I love colour so this is exactly what I needed. The theory of shapes made so much sense. I am brand new to watercolour and trying to loosen up….this has helped so much!!!!!!! Thanks so much...following for more !

As always, thanks ever so much for sharing your talents with us! We are all on a quest to find our style, which will likely evolve over time. If we all followed the advice of famous artists to the letter, all of our paintings would look the same. So many artists glaze frequently. For myself, it is the result of not having a clear enough plan from the outset, and timidity in the initial stages. This leads to most of my paintings being quite overworked. The first workshop I too was with Tony Couch (who studied under Ed Whitney and mentioned him frequently). He, too, felt that one should just "paint it as dark as you want the first time" and avoid layers. Whitney used to stand out in the hallway and yell in the door, "Paint darker!", knowing it was good advice for most of the class.

Tony also stressed the importance of value and design, stating color was the least important thing. Your technique of using multiple colors for animal underpaintings reminds me of the techniques used in "Painting Wildlife in Watercolor, by Peggy MacNamara. Light washes that are more focused on value rather than color and form the foundation of the paintings. She uses more layers and glazes, which I have a tendency to muddy up, due to my lack of patience. Your work is brighter and bolder.

Amazing! 🤩

Thanks, always love your use of colour. Very free and expressive.

Tom, you are the 'wild one of watercolour'. As tricky as this medium is, watching you work makes me realise I need to carve out time and persevere with this medium to at least give watercolour a chance... even if mine end up being underpaintings for pastels.

Awesome, as usual, can't imagine using the colours you've used so effectively😂

Super❤

You are amazing Tom..my new guru!

Thank you very much for this excellent demonstration. Loved watching how you manipulated the colors, lights, and darks. Thank you from hot Arizona here in the U.S.!

Hi again from New Zealand. Great tips and skills, another fabulous painting. Thanks, Tom. In essence, then, we could use any colour on this, we dont need to copy yours? The tone is the important aspect and the shapes of light and dark? :)

Excellent demonstration of light and dark.

Hello from Canada Tom! I have been watching your videos for a long time and always admired your deft hand, exciting compositions and your awesome laid-back teaching style. Just went through your Watercolour Bites series. Wish you had been my university prof!
All those lessons and basics from many years ago came together again because of your simple yet complete mini tutorials. What a treasure for new artists, and a reminder for those of us who are getting a little sloppy and wondering why paintings are just not quite right.
Thank you so very much for making this available! ❤

Fabulous tutorial. Love how you use colour. Thank you ✨🎨

Okay. That really helped. Thanks.

Beautiful painting! Thank you for these tips!

Beautiful houseplants too! except for the plastic one🫢😁

Wonderful water color technique

You must have really great paper Tom

Really nice! I love the process that you use. It's fearless and turns out to be so stunning! WOW! Thank you for sharing with us.

I have learned so much from your work! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skill with us!

Wow I love how you used those pops of colors for the background & under painting. Definitely a great fun loose painting. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, progress, & process with us! 🥰