Most IMPORTANT tip for WATERCOLOUR painting

The REAL SECRET to watercolour painting is explained and simplified in this easy to understand tutorial. The key is really focusing on paint consistency of the paint and the dryness of the paper.
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This watercolour painting technique is as accessible for beginners as it is to advanced painters.

If you're looking to advance your watercolor painting; or you find yourself asking the question, "How do I Improve my Watercolors?", my hope is this will really help you out!!:)

And I hope with the whiteboard approach, and examples, that this can be watercolour painting theory made SIMPLE.

So much of watercolour painting can be made easy when we really evaluate paint consistency and the stages of drying on our paper. This is where the Watercolour Clock comes in.

Created by Joseph Zbukvic:
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This approach is a watercolour technique for beginners, right through to more advanced watercolourists. Constantly going back to this to relearn, and reapply will do nothing but good for my own watercolour painting.

I do honestly believe that if you can wrap your head around this single most important thing in watercolour (or as I say, the two most important things in watercolour), you will improve your own paintings very quickly!
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[tomshepherdartist]

*Is there a topic you'd like me to cover!?*
Answers below :)

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[phillewis]

Wow. I'm a total beginner, and there's more useful information in these 11 minutes 11 seconds than the hours of other content I've watched, and the books I've read!

[morduadi]

Best consistency video I have ever seen. And what a great painting.. so glad I found you

[johnguilf]

God Tom you have a lovely home yes very good vids try copy a turner too see how it turns out be cool out

[gu-oai]

Formidable - de très loin, la meilleure démonstration "aquarelliste" que j'aie pu visionner en ligne. Merci et bravo !

[garymcguire]

You make it sound like a juggling act, which it is, with time and consistency. That is both part of the skill and the pleasure of getting it right sometimes.

[glenda]

Demonstration was SO helpful! Love to see a whole “don’t” video with exaggerated outcomes and bad results, how you got there and lessons learned

[kathrynwoolcock]

The watercolour clock is an incredible idea, I love it. Now I understand so much more about how watercolour works, I have been guessing but my guesses are often not that wonderful! Greetings from the land of Vegemite 😊😊😊😊. Thanks so much Tom.

[bls]

At last a visual explanation of the clock! For a beginner so much easier to understand by seeing it. I have been searching for examples for quite a while, and yours is the first clear one I have found. Thank you for this useful, informative video!

[michelledavies-stuhmcke]

Amazing information and so very well explained. Wish someone had told me all this 4 months ago when I started painting in watercolour. Thank you Tom.

[librenonlibre]

The single most helpful tutorial I've seen yet on how to develop a painting in this medium. As a newbie to this glorious paint, I cannot thank you more for your clearly articulated demonstration...From one thankful new subscriber in the U.S.

[lruffini]

Finally! Thank you for explaining this. I could never get my head around the the ratio of paint consistencies to how wet/dry the paper is.

[sueharper]

And, just seen the question about future topics, you may have covered this in the ensuing years, but I struggle MOST OF ALL with landscapes. I would love to do one for my husband whose favourite paintings are landscapes. He’s very generously complimentary when I present him with one, but it would be nice if I could do one we both like. I really love your loose style, but don’t paint a bit loose however hard I try. That’s because I don’t have the consistencies right. Thanks anyway. Take care, have a great day 👍🏼

[gailewart]

Thankyou for this invaluable info.You never stop learning in this this medium .Just when you think you’ve cracked it someone else shows there technique and your blown away it’s so frustrating but magical too. Your painting was beautiful.Keep em coming .🙂

[janetmcneill]

I've been painting in watercolour for a long time and this is the first time I've seen this - it is a real eye opener - thank you Tom!

[ivi]

I’m new to your channel. Finally a video that explains in detail how to control water. I’ve been teaching myself watercolor for over a year and still have trouble with that. You’re an amazing artist and teacher. Thank you!

[jackieojeda]

This has to be one of my favorite paintings so far, absolutely 💯 lovely!!👍👍👏👋🤗

[lyndamitton]

Absolutely Incredible, I am a real beginner, but work gives me the incentive to ‘try everything and practice’ !

[clarejohnson]

Really helpful! I started watercolour a couple of years ago .I seem to have steered to line and wash .I think maybe scared of loose watercolours!
But watching this video and beautiful painting I think I may try loose painting.

[sueharper]

Then I just watched this. The clock is a really good way of showing all the stages. You said something that really speaks to me: you still have to have a feel for it, and after 18 months I know that I don’t have that feel at all. BUT, you also said to practice, a lot, and even though I’ve done over 400(!) paintings in those 18 months, and pleased with maybe 50 of them. Still a good number I know, but to me it seems more good luck than management if you know what I mean. I don’t mean I want to manage the magic of watercolour - but I don’t create the environment for that to happen. Anyway, I’m all fired up and enthusiastic, so I’ll keep trying. Thanks for the videos. I’m loving them.