Thank you so much for showing your practice bees before you get to the bee that you painted in the video. I am a beginner and I always look in awe at artists on KZfaq. Sometimes I forget that to get to where you are, there is a lot of practice involve. You make it look effortless but to get to that level of effortless-ness a lot of effort is required in advance :) I love the reminder to keep on practicing.

YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! As a beginner, THIS is exactly what I am looking for! Small studies, pictures, whatever, where I can learn concepts, techniques, develop skills, develop confidence, repetition, variations, explore ideas, be able to learn from mistakes without feeling I have totally ruined a picture, thrown away expensive paper, pigments, hours of effort, feel frustrated and like a failure. Yes! THIS is what I am looking for and why I enrolled in your Patreon. PLEASE! MORE OF THIS!!!

Thank you for sharing how many times you painted one subject. I get frustrated easily with my work but I haven’t painted a subject enough to feel confident instead of frustrated. I just need to paint more...👍🏼😄

Beautiful bees, beautiful lesson. Thank you.

Your dedication for excellence is admirable 💕👩‍🎨👍thank you - I’m watching all your lessons- more than once - I’ve started to make sure to paint every day now - enjoying the journey ❤

A brilliant artist and so generous with her techniques and SECRETS. Thanks Louise.

You are a great teacher, you give clear and simple instructions.

I love your work Louise! I enjoy painting with you on Patreon. Thank you for all you do!

Thank you for sharing the 13 bees. It put the reality of “practice” into perspective.

When you dropped water in to get a bloom I was shocked because it left these dull parts of the painting. Now I see how you were able to use that and paint on top of it like negative painting with the darker paint of hairs that you were able to see because of the lighter space beneath it. I think I understand and can try this myself. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much Louise for these awesome Bees . I love your Bees .... 🕊 😇 💕 🙏🏻 ☘️ 🐝

Thank you for explaining, many bee paintings say tutorial but you basically just watch them paint with no explanation what so ever. Thank you 😊

Bonjour Louise, merci pour vos tutos, vous êtes un excellent professeur et une grande artiste. Vos explications sont toujours très claires et vos aquarelles inspirantes. À bientôt 😘

I just love your whole 'collection' of bees... and they are beautiful.

Louise, you have managed to magically meld your beautiful painting style with a little bit of looseness and it looks fantastic. I’d love to see you do some some more paintings like this. But, please never change all of your paintings. We need to continue seeing the paintings you create showing all the intricacies. No one can paint as beautifully as you.

Thank you Louise for this video and especially for showing us the 13 practice bees that came before this video.

You are inspiring. By breaking the painting process into small steps the viewer is not overwhelmed. Thank you so much.

I greatly enjoy your tutorials... the close up and commentary are so useful and easy to understand. Thank you for your efforts 🙏🏽.

Thank you so much, you are amazing & your paintings just exquisite! Thanks again, cheers from Perth W.A. 😘🥰❤️💕😊😍

CON TU SIMPATIA Y MAESTRIA PARA PINTAR LO TIENES TODO, QUE AGRADABLE SON TUS VIDEOS, PROCURO SEGUIR TU TECNICA ,GRACIAS MIL, TE SALUDO DESDE MADRID

Very interesting and the last point about practice especially as you are clearly an accomplished artist but still prepare by practicing first. I have been looking for a good tutorial on painting bees and this is best. Thank you abd i am looking forward to following you and learning more 😊😊

와!! 벌이 너무 멋지네요 수채화라 분위기가 좋구요~ 즐겁게 감상합니다 ^^

You work is absolutely amazing! Your tutorials are exeptional, detailed and well explained. Everything you do is estethic and beautiful and amazingly versatile when it comes to subjects you paint, I’m always in awe. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

I like your detailed explantions..lovely works....

Love, love, love. So darn cute and can't wait to give them a go. Today however, I'm continuing my Pansies "journey". Thanks for another great vid.

I love your technique if only I could paint like you do

Hair is one of the hardest to paint in watercolour. This is so helpful!

What a great technique for the hairs , great tutorial thank you ❤️

Busy as a bee 🐝 thank you for another tutorial ☺️

This tutorial is perfect! Loved this! Thank you so much for sharing Louise!

Another great video. You are so encouraging and it helps to know that even someone with your experience paints the same subject over and over to learn from it and improve.

Thanks for your openness and honesty - it gives me hope. I will practise, practise practise!! It is so much fun anyhow and so proud when I improve.

Beautiful, thank you😊

Sensational! Everything about how you prepared for and broke down the steps of this tutorial so obviously hit the mark. Spot on, thanks so much. Looking forward to more (I know, that’s greedy of me!).

I was goofing to get a satisfying painting vid. Tutorial... now gotcha .very satisfying and inspiring one .😍

Really good tutorial. I liked how you showed us how many bees you painted before you felt confident. Great!

Very nice artwork 👌

I found this video so inspiring, especially that a professional artist would paint 13 studies before attempting a final. Your honesty has helped to understand that I can't be in a rush. This, in turn, helps me to "enjoy" the process. I love your videos.

Thank' for this lesson.

Thank you for your wise advice of practising to improve, just what I needed to hear. 👍💕

Beautiful painting Louise! And thank you for such an informative and instructive video - simple teaching methods, slow progression through each step, and really easy to understand and follow along to! 🙂

You've got me wondering what you will do with all of your 'practice bees' - I imagine them displayed on a wall all together as a swarm! You do bring them alive with your great attention to detail.

Thank you

Fantastic job! I can't wait to see your landscapes I don't mean to rush you. I know you want to take your time, I just think your trees are perfect!

Hermosas las 🐝

I love your work and you are a wonderful teacher. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful! I had to laugh when I saw this post because I just published a watercolor bee painting today as well-but it is such a different look/style. That’s what I love about watercolor, so many different ways to achieve a beautiful result.

Another amazing tutorial, your teaching and artistic skills combine to make every video excellent, thank you for sharing ❤️

Thank you so much! I really appreciated your showing us, at the end, that you practiced painting bees before you did the tutorial.

great painting..........thank you for this terrific tutorial!

Thank you so much for being honest with us I remember doing what looked like a easy enough watercolor that someone did on a card for Christmas and followed it to a T and couldn’t understand why it did look good but my daughter said it was beautiful so I kept on determined to make a few to send out I look at the fifth or sixth and realized it was really starting to look like the one in the video and wondered if they had done a few before filming. So thank you for confirming what I thought. You make me want to keep going.

Lovely! So HAPPY I found you! I had dreams of becoming an artist in HighSchool. I Was “strongly” discouraged from doing so, rather encouraged to become a BIOLOGIST instead. Thankfully, I chose Zoology. Decades later I have notebooks and old assignments filled w sketches of “specimens” from my field biology studies. They’re simple black and white ink and pencil sketches. Recently, I decided to try my hand at my old passion-ART. Having no direction, I decided to take inspiration from years of studying bees, wasps, spiders, ants... and any other Insect to cross my path in biology class. I’ve never been taught to paint, however. I wanted to use watercolor to turn my specimens to art. Create an art field journal! I scoured KZfaq for a tutorial on the basics... or just ANYTHING! I found little more than moths and butterflies. While butterflies are indeed beautiful, Bees, wasps and even the lowly scarab beetle aren’t given just credit. Beetles shine with iridescence and metallic colors that I would think EVERY artist would be inspired to create! Don’t even get me started on the “personalities” of bees and wasps! YOU have captured that personality so perfectly in this painting!! THANK YOU!!!! I FINALLY have an artist that sees through my color lenses and inspires me! Beautiful work!! Thank you again!!

Thanks Louise 🙏 They are all very beautiful 😄😉💐

I am loving your videos! I've been oil painting mostly and recently received watercolors and I was excited to jump in - so far it's VERY different haha and I'm more of a realist painter and trying to still catch that realism with watercolors without losing the watercolor style is certainly fun and challenging. Your videos really help me as your style is very similar to mine!

I love your interesting way of experimenting with watercolour. I am definitely going to try out some of the techniques I have just seen in my next watercolour painting

Wow, your commitment is impressive, thank you for your hard work for your Patrons! Sharing your studies also gives me a little perspective on how much work it should take to create a finished piece. Thank you!

Thanks

Awesome video Louise! Fits in perfect fore next months theme " Insects "

Thanks so much for these amazing videos, I have learned so much from them! You're such a good teacher! Now I need to learn that I can practise and that not everything I do has to be a 'masterpiece!'

Awesome! Thank you for this great tutorial! I too am detail oriented so when I saw this bee, I was excited to see how you would achieve such fine detail. Love how you showed us to think outside the box. Think if I were faced with stroking each one of those tiny hairs individually, it may have been too overwhelming. What tenacity you have! Yes, practice is a great teacher!🎨☺

Wonderful video/tutorial!! Love your work!! I love detail so much but tend to paint loosely for the most part, or somewhere in between😊. Thank you so much for sharing your skill with us!

30 🐝😳 ok let’s do this . You are my inspiration

Parabéns! Além de sua arte ser linda, você explica de forma graciosa é compreensível. Adorei o finalzinho do vídeo :) Incrível 👏🏻

Brilliant tutorial, defo going to have a go, seeing how many times you practiced was interesting but everone of them looked amazing xx from England

Wow Louise! Great video, thank you...13 bees .. you have been busy 🐝😉

Amazing work...🖌👌🙂🖼👍👏👏🧑🏻‍🎨❤️

Thank you!

I loved this! Definedly going to try this!

Bees! Love them! All of yours are fantastic. I’ve done about 6. Sadly, none that I like yet. Lol

We missed you louise

I have just discovered your marvelous videos...and am following you everywhere. Can you add information on your thought process and choices as you draw your subjects prior to painting? Source photographs? How much detail? What to leave out? How to pose your subject for best effect?

What do you do with all those beautiful practice paintings?

Great Video! Just Subscribed 👍 Keep in touch

Molto brava!!! peccato non sia in italiano anche se ci sono i sottotitoli😊

My wife is allergic to yellow jackets so I'll probably skip painting this :-) However, I really enjoyed the video. Thank you.

I'm on my 3rd bee and still can't get it right :(

:-)

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