Essential Watercolor Tips to Improve Your Painting Skills

Hi, I'm Bill Holkham and today I will be showing you some essential watercolor tips to help improve your painting skills. You paint along with me by downloading my FREE sketch below where you will also find a list of materials used in today's beginners tutorial.

Arches 300lb Rough Paper
Winsor Yellow
Winsor Light Red
Winsor Blue
Round Brushes 2,4 and 12
Mop Brush Size 20
Flat Brush 1/2 Size

0:00 Intro
0:29 Sky
2:45 Boats
7:00 Sea

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[letspaintwatercolors]

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[colinremmer]

Thanks for these tips Bill, especially the one about wetting the paper for the soft sea effects. I always like the simple skies you do but they are so effective at the same time

[BarbaraMerges]

Thanks for the simple and thorough details! Makes my day.

[malice-towards-all]

So simple and elegant … outcome was satisfactory

[sharonlane]

Thank you. I needed this tutorial! I am so afraid to paint water. I will try this!

[SKY-qfqq]

Love your painting and the way you explained. Just subscribed.

[Cyrilmc]

Thank you so much Bill, I really really enjoyed watching you and listening to you talk about how you handle watercolours. I found it all very very interesting and helpful too. So I’ve subscribed and given you a thumbs up too ❤❤

[alicechampagne]

Nice tutorial! What is a substitute for Windsor Blue?

[engleharddinglefester]

Except for the yellow, that's pretty much a monochromatic painting, something I've never tried and I'm a little afraid to :) sort of, so thanks!