Probably the most common topic of conversation I've seen amongst students and artists is around developing a style, finding your style; but what does this actual mean, and how do we do it!
Painting, whilst wonderful fun and incredibly rewarding can also be frustrating and disheartening. Why are so many of us frustrated by painting, usually it appears that is we do not like our style.
On closer inspection though it is actually that the outcome of our paintings is a long way from the vision we have for our work. Once we understand this we are better equipped to work out how to develop out painting and move forward in a way that satisfies us.
Whilst so much of art is subjective and often hard to pin down, we can actually use a simple process of analysing our paintings to quickly move forward a develop paintings that are closer to, or more in alignment with our artistic vision.
For me it is this simple term, Artistic Vision, that gives me a better idea of how to be less frustrated with my painting. have more fun with it and ultimately achieve what it is I set out to achieve - that being finding my unique artistic voice and creating my artistic vision.
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Join me on Patreon to see a much longer version of the final owl painting, with full narration:
Long format:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tawny-owl-long-47329973
10 minute narration:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/owl-in-narrated-46730923
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5 Part series on the main principles of painting:
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-XiN65wAzQ
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgPwdnjOqKI
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlHCE7KSveE
4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlASrSK6_zU
5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pErloZf-PPU
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Other Recent videos:
Create a STRONG FOCAL POINT -
https://youtu.be/vQ9bIEmgRoQ
How to Create Strong Light with watercolours -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj90EvVNvAs
Do this with watercolour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVq5nF2bW-0
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Previous Watercolour Bites Episodes:
1) Basic Terms - https://youtu.be/4icHxwdzQYQ
2) Colour vs Tone - https://youtu.be/qnVjTLxivQI
3) Tonal Values (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE6itosi2Hw
4) Tonal Values (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A8s21LOpuA
5) Tonal Values (Part 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9h1qXH30Vs
6) Single Most Important thing in Watercolour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spfpfhqCuY
7) Simple Watercolour Process - https://youtu.be/AbvleXlDoBw
8) Top 10 Tips - https://youtu.be/PZb-3jYxp84
9) Watercolour Brushes - https://youtu.be/-i3EQJ2Sekc
10) Mixing Darks - https://youtu.be/dqfWN5uZwJE
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