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Hi everyone,

Here is the Vegetable watercolour tutorial for beginners.

The two vegetables are fairly simple to paint and shouldn't take you too long. Practice them a few times if you're new to painting in watercolour. 

I use the following techniques:

# painting wet on wet 

# painting wet on dry

# charging

# glazing

The files you need are attached below. I hope you enjoy it.

I'll put the tutorial on the two indexes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34865676

My website index: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

Louise

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Vegetables for Patreon

Comments

Kileen P Smith

How did I miss this??? What a lovely tutorial.

TRACEY ABERNETHY

Just a quick thank you - I gave myself your patreon membership as a Christmas present to keep me painting .When I lose my painting mojo and cant face a full painting , I do one of your beginner ones. Keeps me painting and gets me back on the saddle . Thank you for the range of tutorials you post !

Deb Leser

so helpful to see how many layers and adjustments it takes to get the color right. I seem to get impatient for the color and add to much to each layer. This is very helpful.

Afi Ruel

Hi Louise. When charging, how wet or dry should the paint on the paper be? And also your brush and paint on the brush?

Peiying

Painted this as one of my world watercolor month paintings. Thank you Louise!

Lydia Shemain

Beautiful, so real. Thanks Louise.

Diane King

I love your teaching style. Your instructions are so clear and simple to understand. I was a teacher for 40 years so I know good teaching when I see it. Thank you for your videos, Louise.

LORETTA SUE WHEELER

Thank you for another incredible and informative lesson. I never tire of watching you paint.

Josephine Sinnamon

I feel relieved to know that you traced the photo and not hand drawn. I have always wondered if that was ok ? I am also curious at to why you didn't do a lemon yellow glaze as the base of the snow pea first but did with the leaves? does it really matter? if the lemon goes on as the base or as on as a top glaze? Love it! cant wait to try it myself. Josie Sinnamon

Louise De Masi

Anything to speed up the process for me Josephine. I can draw. I've drawn all my life but these days I'm too busy producing these tutorials and time is of the essence for me. It doesn't really matter about the order of paint for this painting. I could have painted the leaves the same way as I painted the snap peas but I wanted the yellow to show through on the vein down the centre of the leaf. So I put it on there first. Have fun!

Mary Jacobson

The snap peas and chili are awesome. You make it look so easy. I think I will put this on my practice list. Thanks for sharing your talent.

Amy Moran-Jones

Thank you. I appreciate another beginner tutorial. I find the jump between beginner and beginner/intermediate quite big. I was glad of the pen and ink tutorials especially to boost my confidence a bit after I really messed up the tulip and sweet peas.

Desert Morning

Oh wonderful, for some reason vegetables are just fascinating as projects and finished paintings.. Thanks! I also love the pen and ink tutorials. I've been taking long hard looks at your cabbage painting lately. I'm beginning to appreciate how complex that it. It will be my goal to do a version of that by next year, this time. If this frustrating pandemic continues, I just may achieve that. For now, it's peppers and peas.

Debra Sullivan

I love these smaller beauties. They are little jewels! Thank you.

Iona Treeby Ward

Amazing how these simple paintings comprise so many techniques. There is so much to learn. I really like the glazing technique! There is so much patience involved. Thanks

Sharon E Toombs

Thank you Louise. I know I'll enjoy painting these.

Paula Wood

Louise. I am trying to print the line drawing. I get part of the drawing and 3 other pages come out of the printer.

Louise De Masi

Hi Paula, I just downloaded both line drawings and printed them ok. It's something that is happening on your end. You need to download them to your computer and then you might need to adjust your printer settings before you print them.

MD

Thank you so much for these fantastic lessons Louise. As a beginner and itching to do birds and flowers and animals, part of me thought oh, boring peas, lol. But then I watched the videos twice! To watch them take shape as if I could almost reach out and pick one off the page just thrilled me. And there is so much vital info in these lessons especially for someone like myself just starting. I can’t wait to do them now and just wanted you to know how much you and the lessons are appreciated!!

MD

ps..wish list...some day when you have nothing better to do (hope you hear the humor) would love to see you do some mushrooms or toadstools...they are so stunning when you really look at them...

Linda J Greiner

Great lesson ! Especially for beginner :) I got an "end-result" that I like, learned a lot. Thank you for adding this to the tutorials!!

Stephanie Koski

Thank you so much! I painted the chili pepper. I might try it a second time....it looks okay, but I want to do better. Next I will try the peas and then the bell pepper from your cast shadows tutorial.....after that, I'm going to try to paint a vegetable from my own garden....maybe a French breakfast radish. I appreciate you very much.

Janet C

Just wanted to ask, Louise, you seem to have switched from W&N to Daniel Smith for Perylene Green. I want to get this colour, do you have a preference for one brand over the other? Thank you! Ps. Enjoyed doing the peas!

Louise De Masi

Hi Janet, I have both but I have no preference. I've got W and N Perylene Green in my big round palette. For this tutorial I wanted to show you how I picked the paint up so I thought that would be easier and more clear on my little ceramic palette. I need to use my other paints before they go hard and I have to throw them away. So- no preference. They are both equally good. I'm glad you enjoyed the peas.

Magda Wejroch

Thank you for this tutorial, Louise. It was much needed and appreciated. I have a question which came into my mind while watching the snap peas but it is actually more general. You usually start painting from the right hand side of the picture and then move towards the left. Being right-handed wouldn't it be more convenient to start on the left hand side and avoid the blow-drying before you move on? There would be no risk of smudging as your hand would always be resting on the unpainted area to the right of fresh paint.

Louise De Masi

My pleasure Magda. Yes it probably would make more sense. When I start painting straight away I'm in my right brain mode so my left brain analytical/logical thinking is probably asleep 😬. I use the hair dryer a lot though- regardless of where I start because I like to set the paint and make sure it's completely dry. I also don't like to jump all over the place when I film the tutorials. I'm mindful that it would be too confusing for patrons if I'm hopping from one place to the next.

Delores Lopez

Thank you for the nudge and the beginner tutorials.I can draw rather well,but painting was always a fight.I feel less like fighting,and wish to go with the flow of the water.Thanks again for patient teaching skills.I am not the most gifted in art.I always had to work hard at what I did.

Sue Kostick

Thank you for the fantastic tutorial and your welcome email! Do you have a recommendation for beginner level paper? I imagine it is different that the paper we should use when we get a lot better? I Bought supplies to stretch the paper - but am anxious to start so am just using either Fabriano Studio 140 cold watercolor paper or Strathmore 140 cold paper. Also when you say Crimson Lake is there a particular brand of paint you like best? I use mostly Daniel Smith. Its hard sometimes to figure out what color is the same as you are using. I used Turner Artist'c Color for the Red (Pyrrole Red) but just ordered crimson lake .

Louise De Masi

Thank you Sue. I recommend always using 100% cotton paper - even as a beginner. Don't waste your money on buying pulp paper. I use Saunders waterford paper as an alternative to my more expensive Arches paper. l practice on the Saunders paper. Scarlet Lake is a Winsor and Newton colour - I've listed it on the supplies list. I don't ever worry about trying to match colours exactly. Use whatever you have that might be similar. It doesn't matter if it's not the same. What's much more important is how dark or light you are putting the colour on the paper rather than the colour itself.

SUE STRANGE

Thank you Louise ....after a few practices as a novice to watercolour painting, I have finally finished the chilli painting which I have to say looks very acceptable now. So I have done one in my journal which looks pretty good if I say so myself....I was wondering if you have a video on colour mixing...I struggle with that.....I do enjoy your watching tutorials which you make look so easy.....so calm and so relaxing... and I just love your bloopers at the end.......cracks me up.. You are a wonderful teacher and am learning heaps.....

Louise De Masi

Thank you! That's great Sue. I'm glad you painted it more than once. That's the best way to get better at it. I'm not much of a mixer myself so I don't have a video yet. Up until recently about the only colour I ever mixed was my grey that I like to use. Lately though- since I've been here on Patreon I'm trying to paint different things like trees, people etc and I've been mixing more. I'm working on my next video for YouTube at the moment where I paint the frog. I'll post it on Friday. I have a bit of mixing in that. I'm also about to upload the Goose tutorial here on Patreon. There's some mixing in that as well.

Camilla C

Roughly how long does it take for the dryer to thoroughly dry the paint?

Louise De Masi

I've never timed it Camilla. Maybe a minute. I dry it until the shine has completely gone off the paper and then I keep it on there for another 30 seconds or so after that.

Tracey Holden

I love these!! Can we do more beginner paintings like this? So much fun!!

Tillie Fowler

Hi Louise, im a beginner and i only have quinacridone magenta. Any suggestions on how to make the other magenta in this tutorial?

Louise De Masi

Hi Tillie, There is no magenta in this tutorial. Did you mean to post this on another one?

Annika Wärme

Hello! I don´t have Perylene Green, is there some way I can mix up a similar colour?

Louise De Masi

Hi Annika, Perylene Green is a very dark green. It's pigment code is PBk31. I haven't mixed it myself but Jane Blundell, on her website, suggests mixing a crimson with Phthalo green to make it.