NOT EASY BEING GREEN? | Monochromatic Watercolor Study | Painting with Only One Color

I had such good results with my new Qor Watercolors, I decided to give my old White Nights another shot without the battle of mixing colors by doing a Monochrome study. I can definitely feel a difference in quality. this time I think my biggest struggle was with the paper, so I'm gonna be doing some research into better paper, what paper do you use?

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[taniani]

I love how you use green but STILL manages to get purple on you. The true purple queen 💜

[aheedle]

That made me laugh for some reason-

But- You're just naturally good at all these challenges you try whenever it's first time- How?!!

[meanjean]

You should do this again with all red, and make a fall scene with all the red leaves and stuff.

[greencatpal]

It's refreshing to watch an artist that actually admits to the legitimate struggles of doing things like this, I always feel like I'm doing everything wrong since I'm struggling lmao

[AptPenguin]

you should stretch your paper before hand! soak it in water and then when it's really wet, it'll expand so you staple it to a board & tape it down, when it dries it'll shrink a little bit be flat... then it won't buckle when you add more water later ! also when you paint to get rid of that streaky effect do brush in layers in one direction then turn 90 degrees and make more strokes :0 it's streaking because the pigment is uneven on your brush and the paper is buckling

[taniani]

Do an ochre yellow! It’s normally hard to differentiate yellows and I think it’ll be a really good practice

[angelinapereira]

"Look at that clean line! yum."

I agree clean lines are very yummy.

[membo_jpg]

Anyone else notice how many words Waffles makes up?
Today was smidgiest. I’ll make sure to use it in my next essay.

[paranoiarpincess]

I'd have picked emerald because I love jewel tones.

[RabbitTeaPot]

Hahahaha, I love the fact you’re like “well, I’ll give it a go...I don’t know what I’m doing...the paper is like 40% of the rest is my inexperience” and yet the final product is....WOW. 💕

[aestheticescape]

Can you do a rainbow series where you have eventually used all the colours in your watercolours in your set including the different shades of each colour? It could be really cool. It could be called Watercolour Wednesday or something!

[aartistanimation]

I love the idea of a gray-scale photo type drawing, I'm not big into realism but that just sounds really cool, green was an interesting choice, I don't think i could pull that off XD

[membo_jpg]

“How did I get it all over me already? And why is there PuRpLE?”
Classic Waffles...

[angwi]

Something i learned in an aquarelle class to stop the paper from buckling is that you should wet the paper first (before taping) on both sides until it "sticks" to whatever surface you're working on, and then tape down the paper with a special tape that's made of paper but one of the sides has an adhesive that's activated by water (i think it's called something like butchers paper tape?). Then you can wait for the paper to dry or work wet on wet if you want Hope you see this bc this was really helpful for me when painting with watercolors!<3

[chazlett]

3:43 that is me with basically everything
Me: *eating spaghetti*
also me: how did I get it on my forehead already
Me: *painting*
Me again: how did I get blue on me, I haven’t even started putting paint on the paper
Me: *eating pizza*
Some other person: um...you have pizza in your hair
Me yet again: DANG IT

[Tigersun]

To help with your buckling issue it will be worth your time looking into stretching your paper before your paint on it. Plenty of tutorials on how to do so if you google it.
Otherwise you should look into some heavier paper to work with, over 300 gsm usually works.

[EnnyLuxx]

“Gotta beat the devil outta this brush!” - Bob Ross

[KaseyTheGolden]

I HATE Canson watercolor paper... Just thought I'd throw that out there, hahaha.

[ashleybrown]

"Trees, trees" me- *thinking about bob ross* "because everyone needs a friend"🌲🌲

[VasilikisBeautyTips]

You are so talented! Can you do something similar with purple? Your videos are very relaxing!