Advancing with Watercolor: Developing a Motif with Tonal Values

This is a video done as a supplement to watercolor classes being taught by Gary Tucker in Boston. This is the 2nd of a series of lessons that will use various scenes of Copley Square as a motif. In this series I would like to explain and illustrate how an artist uses design, and the technique of watercolor, to portray mood In this lesson I will show how we can engage our memory and imagination through exercising a series of tonal “studies”. The small studies done on a repeated drawing are varied by changing the arrangement of tonal values. These studies are composed around 3 different lighting conditions and reveal a way to understand mood in painting. Later color paintings evolved from these studies. Let’s also look at examples of Monet - a great master - and his treatment of a singular motif... My Materials List: Thank you all for your continued support - for liking this s