Advancing with Watercolor Reflecting on Water "Venice" - Studies

ABOUT THE AUTOR About the Author Gary Tucker is a watercolor artist/ instructor living in the Boston area. He offers online workshops , in person workshops, and an extensive catalogue of Free watercolor videos on technique and design on Youtube at    / garytuckerartist   My on-line store https://www.gumroad.com/garytuckerartist My web site https://www.garytuckerartist.com FREE PDF https://userfiles.faso.us/98794/27107... TONAL Study This week we start our work with a Tonal Study - focused on the scene of the Grand Canal in Venice. A tonal study gives us the opportunity to compose with a single color and make a path to a final painting. By exercising our subject with with a single color we can simplify the design and think more on the shapes and their relationship - also we can manipulate these tonal relationships and realize that we can create a completely different mood in the process. VALUE RELATIONSHIPS The relationship that lights and darks play in creating mood, atmosphere , light is so important. We can better understand this when we restrict ourselves to a single color or work in pencil or charcoal. In three exercises I will use essentially the same photo reference but very the tonal relationships to create three distinct moods..A great exercise for the artist and one I hope you will embrace during the next couple of weeks I will use one as the basis for developing a more colorful image