How to Paint Shadows in Watercolor

In today’s video I’m sharing with you a painting I’ve been working on in private initially.
I want to share with you one of the most challenging yet rewarding stages of the process - adding the shadows.

I’ve been asked about this a lot in the past, and I want to focus a bit on that, the mixing and the application of paint.
I also made sure to include the names of the paints this time haha 😂

Ref Pic, Drawing & Painting Stages:

PAINTS:
French Ultramarine - Daniel Smith
Perylene Red - Daniel Smith
Yellow Ochre - M. Graham
New Gamboge - Paul Ruben

Enjoy! 😊🙏🏼
- Liron

Time Stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:57 - The Plan & Paints
02:25 - Large Shadows
13:40 - Bricks & Details
18:11 - Darker Shadows & More Details
29:24 - Final Result & Conclusion

🎨 MATERIALS I OFTEN USE 🎨

Paints (all Daniel Smith)
Quinacridone Rose

Brushes
Escoda BLACK Plein-Air Set:

Paper

Palette

Plein-Air Easel

White Pen
Uniball Signo White Gel Pen (easy to find on ebay!)

*** MUSIC CREDITS ***

Music by @joakimkarudmusic

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[dougg]

I’m in panic mode when I use water colors ( not well). You doing it while talking is most impressive:)

[lindawaters]

Great tutorial. Love the phrase “Have mercy on the viewer”😅

[dragonslayer]

Pls do more realtime painting/ explanation

[paulacampbell]

Watch your videos a lot and this has been one of my favorites. Love how you allowed and encouraged us to paint along with you. I like to watch tutorials all the way through and then go back and paint along. I will definitely be trying my hand at this one. Thanks so much and please post more videos like this one!!

[marideelebrun]

I have been painting many many years. But your demo on sharing was Will worth watching. You never stop learning in art.THANK YOU

[afzalzak]

Happy to watching your skies for beginners love your style

[BriO_]

You are a pretty good teacher mister! Thank you so much again for this lesson, you make it look so easy to achieve! You are my today’s discovery 😊

[getsomecolourinyourlifedav]

I love shadows on buildings, my kind of painting subject, thanks for sharing Liron 👍

[sketchingjohn]

Beautiful Liron! Hope it sells for you, it's a perfect example of the strengths of watercolor.

[aninditabhattacharya]

So nicely explained. Great help. Thank you.

[jytte]

Great painting. I admire the way you let the wet paint flow down your painting :o)

[scarz]

Well. .ding dang diggity dang! I love it!!! The depth. The dimensionality. It draws me inwards. The warmth is good. I like the shadows. Good show.

[magdalenakruczkowska]

You are a great artist and a fantastic teacher!! Thank you.

[myartprocess]

Liron, you make me HAVE to paint! Brilliantly done!

[janetwhitney]

Very helpful thank you. Learned a lot from it.

[happyfarmer]

Yorgeea? Oh right!! Love your vids- so helpful in the days of remote school art class. Even our teacher has directed the class to your vids. Appreciate all your time.

[marymikel]

YES FINALLY! I've needed a real time tutorial like this for a long while but couldn't really find one. Thanks soo much!

[Alinda]

Struggling with shadows right now :P I love how your painting turned out, it's beautiful

[MahuaRayIJS]

I recently started following your channel. This video has been the best among the recent ones that I have seen on YouTube posted by any other artist. Really appreciate your tutorials...Thank you for sharing!!

[robertbotham]

Thank you, Liron! This was very helpful and fun to follow along with...I am learning much!