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These mostly have minimal promotional content other than mentioning their own Patreon if they have one. Some of the artists haven't uploaded as much in 2020, which is understandable. Some have uploaded more.

Landscapes and Cityscapes:
Dragonfly Spirit Studio - excellent watercolour tutorials and teaching vids, largely about landscapes, with some still life or flower paintings. They always make me want to try what Lynne's demonstrated.

Liron Yanconsky - an Israeli watercolorist who teaches or demos some aspect of technique in each of his vids (landscapes and cityscapes, mostly). He also does 'Painting Masters' vids where he presents a relatively well-known watercolour artist and tours their work, discussing his favourite paintings. 

Portraits and Figures:
Jenny Dolfen - gorgeous fantasy and fanart watercolours e.g. of Silmarillion characters. She gives tips about her painting techniques and her use of gold leaf. 

Arleebean - interestingly loose, expressionistic watercolour and gouache portaits with explanations about her process and artistic decisions. Grinds her own paints sometimes, and tries some different handmade paints. Sometimes does specific tutorials.

Jane Beata - interesting process vids of watercolour portraits (in the past, broader subjects e.g. florals, objects). More detail is on her Patreon (which is ridiculously cheap - she undervalues herself), but the shorter YouTube vids are interesting and useful. 

Jess Karp - see her 100 things challenges (heads, hands, eyes etc.) and her 'fruitheads' series and sketchbook tours. Very talented and cheerfully informative.

Myriam Tillson - a unique artist who uses gouache, acrylics and watercolours to paint surrealistic figures and portraits. I love her and she's extremely talented but a warning for frequent dark and disturbing images and body horror, e.g. hollow people, trees and snakes coming out of people, headless people, etc. - so she's not for everyone. She's a lovely person and she explains her process and ideas well, more so on her Patreon, but the shorter vids are also good. Her Inktober series are amazing - the 2019 vids are on her channel and for a glimpse of the 2017 and 2018 Inktober works see her shop here.

Animals and Technical Aspects of Watercolour Paints
In Liquid Color - Denise Sodan. Denise does detailed swatching and discussion of different watercolour brands and pigments, and specialises in painting animals. See her' Colour Spotlight' and 'Brand by Brand' series. 

Florals and abstract Doodles
Creationsceecee - relaxing small, semi-abstract pics she calls doodles, with soft watercolours and then fine drawings (of florals or shapes) superimposed, and some use of gold and silver paint. Great ideas for cards and bookmarks. 

Nianiani - Mostly florals, some food, landscapes etc. Good and very basic tutorials about painting different types of flowers and leaves with watercolours.


Digital Art
I recently found this digital drawing tutorial useful, to cut down shakiness in drawing lineart on a tablet or screen. I don't do much digital art these days but I like clean lineart to print off and use to start painting. The other take-away lessons recently from digital art tutorial vids have been to use some of the "smoothing" function in Photoshop, and to use layers, with initial rougher drawing(s) superimposed by the final lineart, also not to be afraid to erase a lot to get to the final version.

I'm linking to and reccing this post called Demystifying Paper by sinopiasaur, over at Pillowfort. It's a detailed explanation of the types and specifications of watercolour papers, and I found it interesting and useful.

I don't know much about all this as I've only gotten back into traditional art in the last year or so and never had any training, so I'd be interested to hear what more expert members of the comm think about what sinopiasaur says, or any other information anyone has.

For myself, I need a heavier paper like 300gsm as I do often work pretty wet. But I've realised that other than occasional gift works like Christmas presents or cards, I hardly ever need archival quality as I scan everything and share it on line. I've had problems with Fabriano and Arches hot press papers - I find them very unforgiving and hard to do blending on although I like the smoother surface for detail work, so I'll probably experiment more with other brands. 

During Inktober, one hassle has been getting pens to work over an underlayer of coloured inks. My dip pen gets fibres caught in the nib, my glass pen isn't fine enough for most details, and fineliners get clogged on the underlying ink and I guess also by the paper's fibers once I've started damaging the surface with a layer of wet colour (even once it's thoroughly dry). Also, rougher papers are harder to use pens on and clog the tips/nibs more. Any suggestions about papers that are good for drawing on with pens over a watercolour/ink underlayer?