Are You Buying Into This Watercolor Lie?

Friends the sound on this one gets weird in the last half of the vid, I think it’s time for a new mic! Thanks for hanging in there regardless:)

I’m at a stagnant place in my life where I am slowly unraveling and being generally unproductive. I went to a prestigious art school and graduated with a perfect GPA, but this stage of my life is forcing me to relearn everything all over again. Your videos are helping me pick up the pieces. I hope to get out of this funk soon. Your voice and advice is like a patient professor in the course of life 😅 sorry for all the sappy-ness. Thank you for the video!

I just came home from a rough day of work and clicked your video and man, as soon as I heard your voice? Instant relaxation, it was so soothing to hear you talk about watercolors lol

I found the colors a little stressful, but you made it work. Of course. :-) Especially the highlighter yellow strawberry. I never would have gone there on my own.

You went over several berries a few times, when does that become “overworked”?

Kristy, you are the best. I'm living in a deep depressive episode right now. Paintings lost their colors, music lost the tones - only good is that I know it will go over even if I don't feel or believe it at all. And now I stumbled in this video, started watching, and ... your teaching, your telling, brought some color in my life. Maybe because it's not about feeling but learning. And I hope so much to paint some muddy strawberries soon. Best greetings from Germany, Jutta

Naples yellow is my fav, too! I knew what it was as soon as your brush touched it.

This is gold! I'm always trying to explain to people that when it comes to watercolour there is no perfect way to do it you have to experiment with different paper, paints and brushes and stay curious when something unexpected happens. With any art you have to make it about the journey and learning experience more than painting something perfect every time because even the best artists have paintings that just don't come out and that's ok because it's all a learning experience! Just put that brush to paper and see what happens! I love your crazy strawberries!❤️❤️❤️

The purple, and dark red ones look like cherries, but love it!! All the fruits I love. And these strawberries...they are fabulous!!!

Kristy the more I watch your videos the more I appreciate your ‘change the rules’ attitude, genius is the word I’m thinking. I find your style so unique and beautiful and also find harder to do than it looks. But I do love trying lol. Thank you so much.

Colors opposite each other on the color wheel create neutrals

I have not painted yet but I love watching you I'm so intimidated by it all I buy watercolors and just put color around tags that I make for a Journal I'm making

When you said ….so afraid to screw up your painting that you don’t even try… …Etc. etc. that is SO powerful! that is SO beautiful that is SO GOOD to hear! Because yes, pushing MY boundaries is where I learn good new stuff!

Oh!!! I’m in love. You talk us through it. You do things with color that are so out of the box 💗💗

Kristy I'm liking the different colors. At first I wasn't sure, but I love how you kind of gave me permission to try a variety of colors for painting! So often it's a great tuneup to reset creativity. Thank you for your lessons. Truly.

I love how positive you are about all your art mistakes or happy accidents and how to turn them around. Thank you

I love this strawberry painting and will be painting it later tonite. Yes please continue to use your paints and brushes. The paints are just so fun and unique colors. Tfs

I'm not sure when I started thinking the way I do, but it started when I was young, definitely. I know watercolor supposedly has "rules," and that's fine. I don't feel like I need to follow all of them all the time, though. Even back in art school, I didn't necessarily follow the rules. I would mix media sometimes, I would tweak things I wasn't happy with regardless of whether it was "correct." So now I'm fine mixing watercolor and ink and washing tape and whatever makes me happy. I'm working on a piece right now that started as someone else's acrylic painting. I gessoed over it, then got the urge to try my watercolors over the gesso and it's working beautifully. Would I recommend this? Not a chance. Am I having fun? Absolutely! I don't know if it will work out, but if it doesn't, I still enjoyed the process and learned something. It doesn't have to end up in a museum... It's enough for it to be fun.

Kristi- just got your set of brushes nearly overnight! Just starting my watercolor journey and am sooooo excited!! Thank you!

Oh my word! I just discovered your channel and this is the first video of yours I've watched. I can not wait to watch more. Your voice is so cheerful and you are a wonderful teacher. Thank you ❤️