Paint LIGHT using CONTRASTS in Watercolor

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🖼️ Watercolor Realism Course

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Hi there, Liron here!
In today's video you'le learn how to convey a spectacular sense of light and shadow, using the concept of CONTRASTS.

We'll look at contrasts within:
- Shapes
- Values
- Colors
- Edges

Reference Photo & Sketch can be found here:

Original Ref photo:

Time-Stamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Contrasts
00:19 - Drawing & Background Wash
04:54 - Merging the Pumpkin with the Background
07:02 - Small Front Pumpkin
09:11 - Right Section
11:31 - Pumpkin Wet-in-Wet
14:47 - Pumpkin's Right Side
16:55 - Darks & Details
17:44 - Bonus Tip!
19:02 - Signing & Removing Tape!

Enjoy! 🙏😊
- Liron

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[josephinerovari]

Great Pumpkins! & Thanks for the tip, it makes me want to watch older videos again to see apply it.

[omewo]

Really good tips packed in this one video!! The last tip to always add water also saves me! I've been doing it without realizing. It gives me more time to think about the next step, sometimes I even lift everything because I don't like the way it looked.

[anitawheeler]

I really enjoy your classes and YouTube. Your style is what I hope to do in my future.

[LeslieNikulka]

I was blown away by the great amount of control you have with the water, paint and brush. Thank you for sharing, Liron. 😊

[plumpylump]

4:55 Liron cleans his pallet and Hell freezes over 😂

[donnagoode]

great lesson in value/contrast. thank you

[joykruczay]

Thanks ever so much for sharing your talent and knowledge. Such important points are often overlooked. I loved the tip about adding water, as my tendency is to use too much. (The few workshops I took the instructor always stated I did.) When I was learning watercolor, there was a British artist, Alwyn Crawshaw on public television. He felt that not enough water was used generally, so he always used to say, "Remember, bags of water!".

[krisbarber]

I loved watching and learning from you. Thank you

[teresamitchell-banks]

Really beautiful. Awesome brush control

[michelleflick]

Very interesting. You are helping me to think about color and contrast in new ways.

[domenicosorrentino]

For me...i would have liked to see layerings, and the principles to use them, for instances the order of colors, and the type of technique wet in wet etc etc nice demo

[rob-harvey]

Fantastic demo, definitely going to have a go at this!

[williamsettles]

Hi Liron. I found this video, like most of the others, to be quite informative. And for the first time I really noticed the paints in the compartments of your palette. They seem as if you just squeezed them out of the tubes. Is this the case, or do you do something else to get that consistency?

[vasilismaroulis]

Amazing painting!!!
congrats!!!
any idea how making the white backround look whiter???
cause I noticed in many pictures or thumbnails whites looks superwhite in paintings
is there any special picture filter or a camera trick thats been used before uploading anything on the net??
Thanks in advance

[rbmydntkn]

it's fun to watch but it doesn't work when I try to do it myself😅 my paints on the water are completely out of my control😟

[angie.]

How do you manage to have your palette not stained? Even after using phthalo colors..
Mine gets so stained after a single day of painting all the time 😂