Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!

Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire.  The link is https://youtu.be/UCVkeEvwl54 and my work comes up just after 1:26.  I submitted some of my better work because Liron’s great at spotting areas for improvement even in paintings that I think already look great.

The main messages coming out for me were:

– to improve my use of two point perspective

– get better negatively painting round the outside of shapes

– tone the colours down a bit (“desaturate”).  Liron’s the master of low saturation – every colour he uses starts from the muddy neutral colour in his mixing well, whereas I start from clean colours.

Lots of positives too but it’s the areas for improvement that interested me the most.

And I recommend Liron’s YouTube to all aspiring watercolour artists and, indeed, to anyone who just likes to watch a talented artist in action.