Watch Pablo break down his layered approach to painting water and mix the colors most students struggle with
Watch Pablo break down his layered approach to painting water and mix the colors most students struggle with
May 21, Thursday 12 pm CEST, Berlin / 11 am BST / 6 am EDT, New York.
What you'll see and learn:
Pablo will walk through his approach to water painting and demonstrate one of its most requested elements: color mixing for water scenes.
How Pablo thinks about water before he picks up a brush,and why the sequence of washes decides the depth of the painting
How he mixes greens and greys,the 2 color groups most watercolor students find difficult to control
How he builds a layered washand explains what each layer does to the final result
How he reads a water scene and decides what to paint first,what to save for later, and what to leave out
Does this sound like you?
Your water looks flat
You paint the shapes, match the colors, follow the reference. The result sits on the paper. You can see something is wrong, but you cannot name it
Your greens and greys turn muddy
The color on your palette looks fine. On the paper, it goes dead. You want to see how a master handles these two color families with confidence
You can copy a demo but cannot repeat the result
When the video plays, your painting works. When you try the same subject alone, the water falls apart
You enjoy Pablo’s artworks and want to understand how he paints them
The results look effortless. You want to hear him explain the decisions behind the technique
Your Art Talk with Pablo Rubén
Pablo will show how to mix greens and greys, explaining how to lay the first washes, build reflections, and create depth through layered transparency and light.
Pablo Rubén
- ◆ 500+ national and international awards
- ◆ 18 years with water as his signature subject
- ◆ Works held in museum collections across Spain, France, and beyond
- ◆ Teaches across Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil
"Watercolor embodies all the spontaneity of water itself. Water is the source of everything. When I paint it, I am not capturing reflections or waves. I am expressing rhythm, silence, and movement"
Pablo Rubén
- ◆ 500+ national and international awards
- ◆ 18 years with water as his signature subject
- ◆ Works held in museum collections across Spain, France, and beyond
- ◆ Teaches across Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil
"Watercolor embodies all the spontaneity of water itself. Water is the source of everything. When I paint it, I am not capturing reflections or waves. I am expressing rhythm, silence, and movement"
What our students say about painting with Pablo Rubén
- Participation in a live art talk webinar
- 48 hour access to the recording of the art talk webinar
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You have looked at Pablo’s painting of water and asked: how does he make it seem so real?
TThen you noticed the layers, the reflections sitting on top of each other, the light coming through, and thought: I would not be able to paint like this myself
This Art Talk proves it wrong and shows you how to start painting like Pablo – one step at a time.
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