Advancing with Watercolor: Color Strategies - “Squero di San Trovaso, Venezia”

If you like this content you can support my efforts by subscribing , sharing, commenting, and giving me a thumbs up... This Watercolor was done with a limited palette of 5 colors - listed below - It is a painting developed from the demonstration from last week , building from a tonal idea into a more colorful expression... I try to describe a few of the strategies I have when using color... 1 - I use a reference but try to not get into a mindset of matching color - rather I think about a colors warmth or coolness and it’s lightness or darkness. 2 - When looking at my motif I identify a major color - or mother color that permeates the scene - in this case burnt sienna, and I let this color permeate the painting through using it extensively in my under painting, and through introducing it into most of my mixtures. 3 - understanding of how paint consistency translates into light and dark - was formed in the tonal painting and carried through to this painting. https://www.garytuckerartist.com A list of materials used in this video Windsor and Newton Yellow ochre, burnt sienna, cad red light, ultramarine blue, cobalt turquoise https://www.dickblick.com/products/wi... Paper Saunders 140 rough https://www.dickblick.com/products/sa... Brushes: Raphael Soft Aqua Quill #6, #4 https://www.dickblick.com/products/ra... Loew Cornell Round Sabelette # 8 , 6,4 https://www.dickblick.com/products/lo... Stay tuned as I develop an image of REFLECTIONS ON A CANAL in the next episode of Advancing with Watercolor see image here