Advancing with Watercolor:: Graded Washes = "Alley Life"
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2018
- This is part 4 of a muti-part series which focuses on painting in the field - en plein air - and developing the sketch or study back in the studio.
I feel it is very important for the artist to work from life on a regular basis. The paintings are not always what you hope but the experience yields an important knowledge of light , form and color. It is my experience that this translates into the painting repeated at the studio, and you know what - it is a lot of fun to sit and paint some of the beautiful scenes we see in our daily life!!
This series is structured around the urban parks in Boston and today we are in Southwest Corridor - an intimate park weaving through the brownstones of Bostons Back Bay. Today we stumbled off the path and found this scene in an alley..
A drill for creating graded washes here: • Graded Washes
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This painting is great because it lets the viewer really participate and tell the story of this moment, at least for me. The simplicity works. A surface of a building and a person.
You realise the beauty only when you paint it. Thank you Gary for damenstration.
Gary, your work is amazing and the explanation of your thought process superb. Thank you so much for the work you are putting into your series, these are the things an "at home" artist would never learn on their own.
Those graded washes are so powerful
Im using them more and more
This is amazing! Going to watch a few more times and try to recreate!
Thank you, Gary. I'm looking forward to trying this
Great tutorial especially timely for me since I am doing a series of alleys and back streets for my next show. Thank you. Wonderful painting!!
i´m learning so much with all your videos Gary I would like to say thanks!!!!
Enjoyed that. I had taken a photo of an unusual restaurant front in center city Philadelphia. So with your inspiration, I will give it a try. Thank you Gary
Excellent lesson on shadows.leaving light under the darkest part really makes the 3 dimensions work. Thanks!
Couldn't help noticing how much the photo looked like the old movie "Rear Window". Nice job with the tutorial.
Thank you. I learn a lot from you
Amazing Artist .. Very professional teacher. Your comments while painting is so valuable.. Many thanks 🙏
My favorite of yours so far 👍🏼
This one’s a stunner!
I still don't understand English, but it was useful! Something I understood and saw. Thank you very much! You are a miracle.
Great job, very enjoyable and informative tutorial.
Love this Gary! Thank w!
One of your best
That was good. Thank you.
Thank you. Very nice
Excellent work and teaching
Woww beautiful work thank yo7
Mr. Tucker, you are so kind to share this with us, I sincerely appreciate your generosity. I was wondering what mixture exactly do you refer to as “neutral tint”?
Nice shadow effect.....
It would be extra special if we could see the reference photo while you paint.
Chris - thx for the suggestion - I hope to post a link to the reference in the description for future videos - I don't like to crowd the video
Question:
@8:40, would you have flipped the painting top to bottom, had you not been filming, to help with the darker gradient going from dark to light at the bottom?
I see a lot of UA-cam tutorials where the artist has to mop up a wash at the bottom, when they state that they normally would just flip the board orientation and let it run back in the opposite direction to create that gradient, but it's not easy with their camera set-up.
(I like to know how artists do things when they don't have the constraints of filming.)
Liz - flipping the board over is a good way to do this - needs some patience and watch out for renegade drops.