Absolutely beautiful! You are a master of loose painting. I love how you lifted out for the trees and dropped in the raw sienna. Your voice and descriptions are a pleasure to listen to. Many thanks.

This is the most comprehensive tutorial I have seen. Very inspiring. I will most definitely join one of your workshops really soon. Thank you so much

Thank you Cathal. There are more lessons on the website but my main advice is very simple. Certainly read as much as you can and watch the videos but the more you paint the better you will get. Watercolour is all about confidence and confidence comes only with practice. I also have workshops through the year and again these will be on the website within the next couple of weeks.

Thanks Graham for your observations and reasons in the applications of paint to your lovely watercolour painting. Much appreciated.

Thank you. The first wash is done wet on dry paper but being careful to avoid any hard edges. I suppose it is not unlike wet in wet but I find pre-wetting the paper gives far less control and often results in granulation - an effect many people like but I don't. Granulation is also more likely if you paint with the board quite flat. I paint with the board anything from 45-80 degrees from the horizontal.

You are a great painter Grahame Booth! Your technique is absolutely marvelous! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you so much for sharing. I love how you show your pallet. It helps to know how much water to use. You're very instructive in your video, with actual explanation of what you're doing.

Mr. Booth, I followed your tutorial this evening and really appreciate your techniques and beautiful choice of colors. Thank you sir for the great lesson and tutorial. I learned a lot listening to your explanations. Thanks a lot sir. Don Sylvester Houston, Texas

Valuable tutorial Grahame. I'm so pleased you show your palette and how you mix your paints. That is where the magic starts and gives us a better idea of what you are doing. Many thanks - a masterclass indeed.

I had never seen a paper like that. You make it look so easy! I loved this!

Great lesson, one of the best videos on the technique I've seen so far

Great lesson. Been doodling for decades and it's still always useful to be reminded of those little pointers. Love your description of veridian BTW hideous indeed. Took me ages to figure out what to do with that stuff.

Thank you very much!!! One of the best, if not the best tutorials I 've ever seen. I really enjoyed your explanations.

You're an amazing inspiration for me as a self taught watercolour painter, many thanks to you.

It is amazing how things come from "what in the world" to a work of art. You brought it all together and made it look so simple. I've painted landscapes in oils for years but got tired of the smell and clean up. So I decided to try watercolor and watch all the "greats" do their thing. I love watching and listening. Your voice is soothing and you explain things so nicely. Thank you so much for helping we aspiring beginners in watercolor.

I just love watching canvases that start out looking like a big mess but turn into beautiful art works.

Great demo ! Looking forward to watching more of them. Thank you so much !

Very good painting; I have viewed this particular demo a number of times; like your friendly attitude and helpful instructions.

Super. Thank you so much for sharing. I love trees and the way you paint them will inspire me to keep at it.

Hi Grahame, i love your tutorial! Im just starting to learn to paint using watercolour and i would be trying the techniques you showed here! Thanks!

Very refreshing and so pleased that you encourage lifting out as a technique as I hear so many poo poo that method. Its amazing how many artists refuse to do this. It proves on this painting how effective that technique is and doesnt take anything away from the freshness of this peice. Love it and look forward to you perhaps doing a workshop with us at Bandouille next year B

Really appreciate the time to share your really organic and expressive take on Birch trees and the surroundings. Lovely painting! Definitely hit the "subscribe."

I have not seen the lifting color method used in a landscape before, not that I'm an expert (& honestly am so very forgetful these days that I may have just forgotten). You used it quite effectively and with your awesome style of painting in watercolor have a beautiful landscape. Thank you for taking the time to videotape your session. I love your art.

Dear Graeme, most sincere appreciation from over here where we not only have lockdown but freezing weather, so need to get back to painting after a twenty year hiatus, less one lose it, so to speak, or turn to drink lol. ❤🇨🇦❤

I love the way you make everything simple and easy to learn.

Beautiful and lovely art works. Thank you for teaching and sharing.

I've watched dozens of 'how to paint trees' and this is by far the very best.....

Thanks so much for sharing these techniques!

Dear Graham, I have watched heaps of watercolour tutorial videos and I've got to say that this had topped everything for me, it's just superb! I adore the finished work and the simplicity which you demonstrate is so effective that it's almost simply unbelievable. As an aside, the video production is excellent too. Thank you very much indeed.

Love you Loose style Grahame! I"m such a detailed painter.....nice to watch you work!

Hi Graham ... I've only recently started using watercolours; I love it ... and hate it. So demanding , but every little success then becomes a victory. I am stunned by the apparent simplicity of your technique to achieve such a superb outcome. I realise that's a sign of a good artist, but it also encourages others to try your methods. I've never been confident about lifting paint, but will now give it a try. I'm using Bockingford 530 gm paper, so, with any luck it should work. Many thanks for taking the time to put your work online.

One of the best demos on KZfaq

Simply LOVE your style...beautiful!

mister, your work is absolutely beautiful! Suscribed!

I am amazed that you can place more layers and it just gets better and better. A beautiful piece of work

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments and encouragement. Over the next few months I plan to produce more videos each dealing with particular subjects with hints and tips on how to simplify the process so watch this space!!

Wonderful techique. You work with watercolor as I see it should be. Loose, spontaneous and free! Thank you!

Brilliant painting, I really enjoyed Watching this smaller watercolour. Such an interesting old tree to paint, and You have done it perfectly. I also like the snowy lane painting you have done too. Thank you

Yet another wonderful and relaxing video. THANK you!!!

A refreshingly different approach thanks Love the lifting out technique

simply smart and dexterous, with the right sense of hues. Wow!

It is a really enjoyable video with good explanations of what you are doing. It is always interesting to learn about new techniques - especially I liked that dry-brush-finger!

I found this particularly interesting and your lifting out technique is something I will try soon. Thank you.

Luscious, instinctive and poetic - fab Grahame - I learned a lot.

What a beautiful painting and your delivery is brilliant! You are very good at detailing exactly what you are doing. Thank you so much 😀

beautiful landscape loved the way you brought it all together

Thanks for sharing us your way of painting. So beautiful !

Thank you for your kind comment. There are no extra colour effects added to the video. The original video was shot under tungsten light and was very warm in colour so a colour adjustment was made to make it more neutral. The final shot of the painting was taken with a stills camera and this is closer to the actual colours. This was the first time I had used a new lighting system. Next time I'll use a daylight filter on the lights and that should solve the problem.

Thanks for this tutorial video. I'm a avid fan of the lift-out technique and this is an excellent illustration.

Thank you for taking your time to create this video. It is helpful and inspiring. I will try to paint trees in watercolor!

enjoyed your painting immensely, great work thanks

A thoroughly enjoyable demo. You have a great teaching style Grahame, plus the video is full of very useful watercolour painting tips. Thank you very much..

This was a very amazing painting Graham! I'm relatively new to watercolor painting and this looks like it would be a good one to try for myself! I'm going to subscribe to your channel to make sure I don't miss any more episodes. I hope you're still painting and doing KZfaq. Evidently this was done about 4 or 5 years ago!

Sir I love to paint trees today I really enjoyed your demo and your way of guidance is so simple and comprehensive Thank you so much

they say the essence of art is appreciation. so to you i say; Beautiful , thank you for the video!

I love it so much. Your technique is admirable, the purest of watercolor. Thank you very much for sharing your work. I learn by seeing your work.

Love your style of painting AND teaching ... subscribed!

this is trully amazing demonstration... i learnt alot ... got inspired by the way u use the colours ,the washes and the brushwork... i will definately try by hand on it...the picking of colour is also great technique..thanx for suggesting the paper..

Отличный фильм! Красивые серые оттенки цветов создают гармонию в в картине.Удачи и новых новых работ!Grahame Booth

Looks so fantastic and alive! beautiful!

love watching your videos . painting is beautiful.

Just stumbled across your video I have watched many many videos on watercolour and must say this was one of the best I've seen, very informative and very interesting thank you so much I will be looking at the others on your website asap

Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this tutorial. Keen to give it go :)

I have almost all your books, I love how you make paper and paint come alive My washes have a difficult time lifting, could I use a schosh of alcohol?

Beautiful! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this!

Grahame, excellent tutorial on painting trees...loved it so much I just subscribed!

Brilliant demo Grahame

Sir no words to say...really very exciting, thank you very much for your tips...pls be with this...

Beautiful work. Thank you for the complete (unselfish) and helpful demo.

The impressionists would have loved this painting! And, so do I. Think I will give this a go. Thanks for sharing! I need to spend some time doing paintings of this "cropping" to get away from the big-sky paintings.

Thank you for sharing your "gift" with us. We all need a purpose and yours is helping those of us who want to know more about how to better manipulate our color palate on paper! :) Thanks

Great video....thanks! I love the warmth of the colors and the "freeness" of your painting. I get too bogged down in precision....Thanks Again!

Thank you Graham. I have watched a few of your vids and pleased I found your channel. I’ve happily subbed, because your vids are very helpful. I like your style of painting as well.

Really a nice demo, Grahame, very helpful. Thanks.

beautiful painting,great mix of color.

Wonderfull, can I ask, do you need a special brush for lifting the paint off?

Great demo and a nice result, thank you

Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful.

I love the looseness of your painting (:

Прекрасно. Спасибо за такую красоту.Очень вдохновляет!

Thanks so much for this, wish I'd found you sooner! My signature style that I've been developing is nothing like this, but I sketch and paint from life when I can, but many ly in oils. If you ever teach plein air around County Antrim, I'd be very interested. I now want a sword liner brush! Will def be checking out your website.

Simple and amazing. Masterwork..

Excellent demonstration. Thanks!

Thank you so much! And I wish many new ideas, newpictures!!!

Enjoyed this very much. And love your accent!

Thanks Grahame for this video. Its really an interesting technique and helpful..

Love the accent and tone of voice too. That's important.

Hi Anabel As long as the watercolours are from a reputable manufacturer they will be fine. I mostly use Winsor & Newton but I've used Schmincke and they are excellent.

Great demo! Thank you very much for sharing !

Very nice technique. A suggestion would be to color correct your studio lighting, which has a yellow cast to it and it effects the video.

Quite nice! Enjoyed it! Very good instruction.

Excellent! You are very generous. Thank you.

Thumbs up for you Mr. Booth very very nice

thank you, gorgeous work!

really good. my kids are really excited after watching the video.

Very useful video, particularly about lifting out technique.

Very nice and simple tut...I just love it Lifting begins at 8:08?...(is my guess). most papers begin to 'peel-off ' with just a few wet brush strokes, and that is why Mr. Booth uses the hot pressed, 140 lbs kind of paper, as I recall on a previous comment...he makes it look so very easy...!!

Hallo Grahame, sehr schönes Bild. Habe jetzt auch wieder angefangen mehr mit Aquarellfarben zu malen,zuvor mehr mit Acryl. Die Farben, die du benutzt sind sehr nätürlich,sieht toll aus.

Superbement exécuté :) La technique est maitrisée, bravo Grahame

Love your techniques