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Juggling as a Lesson in Lightness for the Watercolorist | Watercolor Ball Painting

Today, I'm sharing a painting tutorial of juggling balls, a challenging subject that reflects my own journey to learn how to juggle. This video combines my love for art with practical tips for hand exercises, emphasizing the importance of light hands, much like in basic juggling. Discover how to juggle 3 balls and maintain hand versatility through creative practice. Watercolor painting should be practiced as often as possible from life. We paint still lifes, drapery, portraits, and similar studies. This time, I chose juggling balls. I chose the balls deliberately. I am learning to juggle myself. Painting is a sedentary activity. When we paint, we tend to use our hands in a rather one-sided way, yet we need them to be well warmed up and flexible. A watercolorist’s hands therefore need a different kind of movement as well. In this video, I recommend juggling as a complementary exercise for watercolorists. Not for performance. Not to entertain an audience. But for lightness in working with the hands. When I juggle, I learn to keep my hands relaxed. I train them to respond naturally, without tension. At first, the balls kept falling. I’d pick them up, and try again. They’d fall; I’d pick them up again. This is exactly what I know from watercolor. Some things just have to become automatic. I want to focus on what I’m painting, not the technique itself. Juggling teaches me to trust my hands. It is an excellent training for eye–hand neuromuscular coordination. I watch the ball, estimate its trajectory, and react in a split second. In watercolor, it is similar. I see the paint spreading where it should not, and I need to respond in time. And now, let’s take a look at the painting itself. I painted a watercolor of three juggling balls placed on a table. The composition is horizontal. The balls are arranged in a gentle triangle. I treated the surface beneath them as a loose, warm ochre wash. It is not detailed. It feels like softly spread color under the balls, creating a simple setting. The background is white. I left a large part of the paper untouched so that the colors and shapes could stand out. While painting, I used the wet-on-wet technique in the first layers to achieve soft transitions. Later, I added glazes to deepen the shadows. I preserved the white of the paper in the highlights. I built up the cast shadows under the balls in several layers so they would feel soft yet grounded. In some areas, I worked with a drier brush to emphasize the edges between the colored segments. As with any study, I can see a few proportional inaccuracies. Not all the balls are perfectly round. In some places, the transition between light and shadow is too sharp. The shadow under the green ball could have been softer. And the yellow ball in the back might have benefited from slightly stronger contrast to bring it forward in space. If you would like your hands to be skillful, relaxed, and precise, try adding complementary hand exercises to your painting practice. Just a few minutes a day. For sensitivity in the hands. For rhythm. For the joy of movement. And then return to your brush and to your next watercolor with greater confidence. #watercolorpractice #watercolorstudy #jugglingexercise #artisttraining #handcoordination #watercolorstilllife ✍️ AUTHENTICITY & TOOLS The content of this video is based on my personal experience, study, and practice. Originally created in Slovak, the script was translated into English using Google Gemini, and the voiceover was generated with ElevenLabs. Lubica Vesela | Watercolor Art