How to produce different watercolor tones. Most important way to add depth to a watercolor painting.

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How to produce different watercolor tones. Most important way to add depth to a watercolor painting.

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Knowing how to produce different watercolor tones is vital. It is the most important method to add depth to a watercolour painting. This is the forth episode in my beginner watercolor course.
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Colors used in video:
All are Winsor and Newton brand
Winsor Lemon
Permanent Rose
Winsor Blue Red Shade
My teaching manual: Mastering Watercolors - A Practical Guide: amzn.to/3ZF2FRW
In this episode I show you how to handle water to create various paint consistencies. This results in different tones. Tones are the dark or light components of a color.
The next episode in this series will look at all the different colors you can produce with just the three we are using. The result will be a color wheel you can use with future paintings.
I also have a couple of watercolor painting books which I published and distribute through Amazon.
The first one, which has sold over 10,000 copies is bascially my teaching manual and is titled:
Mastering Watercolors - A Practical Guide.
The second is full of step by step demonstrations and is titled: Watercolor Step By Step: amzn.to/3z4YXEu
Both books are available in kindle format and paperback.
You can also find a lot of useful information on my website: www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/

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@sharonk9831 16 күн бұрын

I’ve always wanted to learn watercolor. I’ve tried off and on for several years, but it’s different instructors on KZfaq, but I have to say you are the best instructor on KZfaq. I started with your first class and every night I progress to another class. I really look forward to it. You explain everything so well and you make things easy to understand and follow. I’m not crazy about the music. I’d rather just hear you because you have a peaceful way about you and the music kind of doesn’t blend, but it’s OK, I’m really glad I found your program

@JoeCartwright 16 күн бұрын

Glad you are finding my videos helpful. Yes, the music in my earlier videos were a bit loud. 😒

@janettepolt2815 10 ай бұрын

Hi Joe Cartright (Bonanza). Thanks for all your help. U R a rockstar!

@JoeCartwright 10 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

@Lestanymanshouldboast 6 ай бұрын

Very, very cool excercise. Definitely a challenge, but loved it! Thanks!

@JoeCartwright 6 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

@deborahamaral8470 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all you have been teaching us!! I am sorry I would kindly suggest that you turn off the background music. 🙌🏼🙌🏼☺️

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, in my latest videos I have stopped using background music. :-)

@deborahamaral8470 2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeCartwright thank you! I am going to see them! 🙌🏼🇧🇷🇧🇷

@esling77 2 жыл бұрын

Tones . It will make or break a Painting for sure. Ty Joe for sharing your knowledge and skills with us.

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. While excercises like this can seem simple, they are very important for future painting development.

@m.e.langieri4957 2 жыл бұрын

Great video with a lot of information in technique in one seemingly simple exercise. Thank you! I love that you begin with darkest, lightest and mid tone and then find the ranges between them. The changing it to a black and white photo also great trick (I first learned this trick in a quilting class). Wonderful exercise for developing the eye and sense of color. Loving each one of these lessons. Have a lovely week!

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Very happy your are enjoying my videos.

@meenapardeshi5860 2 жыл бұрын

Sir, you are simply great. Your detailed explanation is very useful to improve our watercolor paintings. Thank you !

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome.

@grantellis2840 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Joe for another very informative lesson, I really need to practice this one as I have never really made up a chart like those and I can see how vitally important being able to use the same colour but different tones is. Once again fantastic lesson, thank you so much for your time and effort

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful Grant. Getting these basics right can really help your paintings in the future.

@irmareitz701 2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea of using a limited palette. I know I have too many colours and get quite confused as to what colour I should be using. I have just bought my first 3 professional watercolour tubes (yay) and am really looking forward to getting to know them thoroughly before adding any more. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Starting with a limited palette is a good way to learn. For my advanced students we use a palette with about 13 colours - which is still not very many out of potentially hundreds. Glad you are getting something out of my videos.

@dianemcgregor6171 Жыл бұрын

Gosh..This is the first time i have understand that tones are really to do with the concentration of the pigment in water! I thought I had to make it blacker to make it darker. Thank you so much for this clear explanation!

@JoeCartwright Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@ErlingJellum Жыл бұрын

Hi from Norway. Another great video. Really enjoy following along and I am learning a lot! and It was interesting to try to create the full range of tone possible within each colour. I do not have not gotten the windsor colours you recommended, but rather have a set of 12 different pans of color. I notice that these colors have noticeably smaller range of tone than yours. I am guessing that this stems from one out of two things: 1) My colors are of lower quality (they were cheap) 2) There is an inherent difference between colors in tubes and in pans. Can you (or anyone else) shed some light on this?

@JoeCartwright Жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying my videos. Yes, cheap pans have very little real pigment in them so it is hard to create the stronger tones.

@kaystoecklin4343 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your tutorials Joe!! Are you standing up to paint, instead of sitting?

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kay, I mostly paint standing up. The only times I sit, when painting, is when I run a workshop or am doing a demonstration for an art society.

@dorianformosa6439 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this amazing tutorials. Do you use pans or tubes ?

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

I only use Tubes. I let the paint dry in in my palette however.

@aleksandergumos8508 2 жыл бұрын

I would do this differently. Prepare darkest mixture,next for every tone-down I will be adding same amount of water dilute...moving from left to right, till the box of white paper..

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

Whatever works for you is fine.

@paulzegers2438 9 ай бұрын

What are the colors in your palette?

@JoeCartwright 9 ай бұрын

I have added them to the description. They are also in the video.

@Fonkemman 2 жыл бұрын

What brush size are you using here? 🙂

@JoeCartwright 2 жыл бұрын

It is a size 8. The width of the hairs at the ferrule is 5 mm and the length of the hairs are 21 mm. There are no standard sizes amongst different watercolor brush manufacturers.

@Fonkemman 2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeCartwright Thanks Joe! Yes I have noticed that as well. I had an old Van Gogh Royal Talens number 8 and I just bought a number 6 daVinci. I was surprised of the difference in size. Then I saw online that the number 8 Royal Talens was a number 10 in daVinci size.

@pouyatavassoli 9 ай бұрын

Please make a video showing how to make color palettes like the ones you show at the end of video

@JoeCartwright 9 ай бұрын

I will some time, but you need a 3D printer

@pouyatavassoli 9 ай бұрын

@@JoeCartwright sorry I think I was not clear enough. I actually meant those color swatches you created on the paper with the headings written on top of them with pencil that you show in the last few minutes of the video.

@JoeCartwright 9 ай бұрын

@@pouyatavassoli OH, I see. Really there is no need for such a video. You just take each color and produce a color swatch for it as I showed earlier. I don't have all those colors any more. :-(