Shelly I Love,Love, Love this! Thank you so very much! I am going to watch this over and over until I can get mine close to yours.❤️❤️❤️

Alexandra from NY I'm 92 years old. I love to paint in water color. My favorite hobby. I love watching all your Videos I still am learning. The one I loved is how to paint water drops, so well done. You are one of best teachers. Thank you

I'm newly retired and just beginning to explore trying my hand a painting in the wonderful world of watercolor. Yesterday, I happened upon one of your lessons explaining the basics of watercolors....; pigments, the color wheel, transparency vs opaque, etc. You explained so clearly and answered many of the questions I have been struggling to understand. Thank you! I'm excited to begin learning to paint; however, I'm in the process of clearing possessions and preparing my home to sell. My kids have invited me to move in with them in Colorado; therefore, I won't have much time for painting but hope to dedicate an hour a day. I'm so excited and grateful to you for sharing your gift, talent, and personal experiences with us. Blessings! Emma

I find your streams ever so useful for learning and growing my skills in watercolour! Thank you so much for what you do and share Shelley! ❤ I would love to see you do a nebula or space themed piece one day ☺

Amazed at how you painted the sunbeams. Very nice demonstration. Thank you.

My most favourite. I have a small magazine picture of a very old beech tree forest with sunlight filtering through autumn leaves. The shafts of light defeated me as I'm total novice. This video gives me hope.

I love the way you created the Sun-rays coming through

Hi from Australia! Love your videos thank you. I’m interested in learning to paint old derelict houses, barns etc so would love to see a video on that subject.😉

I am a newcomer to your site and a newcomer to watercolour. Many years ago, I took scratchart classes from you at Liz Garcia’s. I have already learnt so much from you today. ❤

Hurray🎉🎉, so glad you're still doing these kind of videos. I'm just starting...have never done painting before and you make it look so easy. Went and bought lots of materials😊 so now I'm gonna give it a try. You're a true inspiration, THANK YOU❤. Artists and art is what makes the world more beautiful.

Wow! I love this style of painting. I shall definitely give this a go but I don’t think it’s as easy as you make it look 😂 but hey.. nothing ventured 😂 thank you for taking the time to do this stuff.. you’re now my main teacher 👍

I want to be there! Taking a stroll and have a picknick!

I have to comment again. I have been watching a lot of video instruction and you are the best! I love that I can actually keep up with the video and my practice paintings come out very nicely!!! Thank you!! By the way, Daniel Smith makes a masking fluid with applicator nozzle and different attachments for different thicknesses.

Something I really struggle with, and would appreciate some mentoring with is how to breakdown a reference to paint it - to determine not just composition, but also would it be best to do wet on wet, wet on dry, does it need an undercoat - if so how do I determine what color the undercoat should be, how to plan out the process - what needs to be done first, second, etc. How to break it all down and plan it out from inspiration to completion, determining what are the best processes to get the finished product I want. If you could do a session on that, it would be much appreciated. You are such an amazing teacher, and really help to make things clear for me.

Thanks for doing these tutorials! Very informative

Great painting demo and example of creating your own composition that differs from the source photo. Thank you!

Bravo! Love your more loose paintings! ❤

Royal and Langnickle has a set of scrubber brushes that work really well for th9se of us who don 't have a collection of old brushes.

So annoyed with myself missing the live tutorial but still enjoyed watching later. Thanks so much .lots of tips in this one for me as landscapes are my thing .😍

Sun through trees is one of my current favorite themes to paint and this tutorial is the best I've watched. Learned so much! Love the negative painting approach. Thank you!

So Pretty- love The colors and Style I would love to see more landscapes and complicated florals or garden scales and ways to make them Unique. I really appreciate how you instruct. Other ideas are nocturnes 🥳

This turned out really nice!!!

Hello Shelley. First of all, let me tell you that I see all your tutorials and I love your way of teaching. Would you be so kind as to activate the subtitles so that all of us who don't know how to speak English can understand it? Thank you so much. So your community will be even bigger.

Hello from Scottsdale Arizona 🌵I love your work! It’s very inspiring and the other day I painted along with you painting the berries and pine cones.. I don’t mean any offense, but I’ve gotta say, I’ve never ever seen anyone “stretch” paper with staples Have you tried using gummed paper tape ? It would spare you all that work of taking out the staples and leaving holes in the paper from all those staples… it looks kinda time consuming I also would add that using the gummed paper tape, doesn’t destroy the paper. I too was a professional custom picture framer. I don’t ever recall seeing anyone do this in all the 20+ years archival framing for galleries and museums. I’ve matted and framed watercolor paintings where the artist wants to show the deckle edges and have their painting floated on a mat board. While getting my degree in printmaking at ASU, I took 2 semesters of watercolor painting. We were taught how to stretch the paper very differently. We also soaked the whole sheet in a basin for about 15 min. then we used a damp sponge to remove puddles of water and then used the gummed paper tape to a board. It’s been more than a decade since I’ve painted in watercolor, and my W&N paints are still good! ☺️ (life happens but I’m back to painting again) Watercolor is so much more enjoyable than acrylic paints. But I do love oil painting and have been mostly doing that with mixed media for last decade. Now everybody is into watercolor, I forgot how much I love it 🥰 I love your paintings and your technique and you’re truly inspiring and I appreciate you, but tbh seeing those the staples are driving me crazy lol 😂 but to each their own I guess 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for the beautiful inspirational painting

Beautiful. Thank you for sharig your painting experience with us.

Hello Shelly. I am a newcomer on your site. I love the way you work and your way of explaining what you do. I am really happy I found you.

Very nice! Great tutorial…thank you for this!

I just found your videos. They are amazing and helpful for a newbie water color artist!

✨🤙🏼

Great tutorial! I've always had the conundrum of where to start. Thanks for all the tips.

Nice

Superbe ! Joyeux Noël 🎅

Just found you amazing artist and tutorial Angela Scotland x

Beautiful!

I love love love this! Please help with foreground water ripples that look diagonal💕💕💕

❤would love seeing fog. I live in SF and I'm having difficulty with painting fog. Thanks!!❤

Lovely and excellent instructions

from Northern Ontario fun to watch

Really enjoy watching you. Your voice is very soothing and you give us so much inside as to how to approach painting. Thank you.❤

Hi Shelley, I always look forward to your videos. What you are able to do in a few hours I will work on for days being new to painting. This one, my first attempt, did not wait till my paper was completely dry before removing the masking fluid and between that and the roughness from the salt ended up with a whole in my paper. The second attempt made the masked areas spots too large but as usual had a good time and will probably try again 😊

Hello you have a great art how about Sunset landscape in Manila w/ nepa hut

Also with water ripples how do we do an ocean gradient with ripples and sky color in perspective, I can’t get my head around it! I wish you had a book with easy step by step paintings to follow with all your techniques. You are a very good teacher!

Ευχαριστώ πολύ που μοιράστηκατε τις γνώσεις σας καληνύχτα από Αθήνα

Great tutorial, thank you very much. Very helpful to me being a beginner. You advised not to use the hot blower on the masking fluid applied areas, but I am seeing you using it several times. Pl clarify this point please.

Nice tutorial 🎉

Hi again Also, what green did you use for the bottom sunlit part? It’s leaf green by davinci mixed with something? It’s really pretty

HI SHELLY! Love your video. I was wondering do you ever use gouache in your paintings?

How long do WATER COLOR LAST, I HAVEN'T PAINTED IN 10 YEARS

Lovely work Shelley x thank u for your teaching x I woke up in the night last night, dreaming about how to paint heat coming from tarmac, u know the haziness that it brings...so as if u r driving along a dual carriageway/motorway, the cars coming towards u look fuzzy...I don't mean fog or steam x ..do u know how that is done Shelley? love Alli and Bella xxx (Bella is my bestie Chihuahua)

WHAT COLOR CAN YOU USE INSTEAD OF QUIN GOLD? IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THEY HAVEE DISCONTINUED IT.

Hi Shelley I’d like to buy some of your workshops on your website and am wondering if you take USD? I am assuming yes and hopefully I didn’t totally space and miss that somewhere.😬

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR ROUND PALLETE?

What do you mean take off masking flood?

HI SHELLY : can you try to add a bit of warm peach as well.

Nous sommes très loin de la photo ,lumière,chaleur ,contraste et densité des pigments. Jsuis déçu car vous avez fait bcp mieux. Merci pour vos videos

Mr clean sponges help lift paint. Tiny scrubber brushes save you hours of labour

If I may ask, your weaknesses in watercolor are glazing and lack of realism 🎨🤔😉