Advancing with Watercolor: Exercise with Tonal Values “Twilight, Île de la Cité”

This is a video done as a supplement to a watercolor class taught by Gary Tucker in Boston. This is the sixth of a series of 8 lessons that will use various scenes of Paris as a motif. The lessons will focus on design , in particular visualizing a center of interest and using this as a means to compose the painting. In this lesson I talk about using tonal Values again to compliment your area of interest. Here I demonstrate how an artist looks beyond all the clutter and detail and thinks about their subject in terms of 3-4 tonal values...in addition we use an underpainting as well as usintaking advantage of transparent washes to create luminosity. Technically we will be focusing on graded washes in all sorts of applications. In this exercise you will notice how they work to create luminosity in the final painting.
The first painting was done using yellow ochre, cad red light, cobalt blue, b sienna and lavender....Holbein juane brilliant is used as an accent color
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[@mchris1020]

I'm FINALLY coming to understand values vs hues by watching your videos and seeing it mentally and visually,

[@GaryTuckerArtist]

Marilynn I am pleased it’s making more sense...it is one of the trickier concepts to understand and integrate into ones painting...

[@eriknorberg6154]

I like your attempt to paint several different moods... the studies in themselves are stunning. Thank you for sharing!

[@GaryTuckerArtist]

Thx Eric - I do these studies often - glad they made sense to you

[@fotoladyvb]

Gary thank you so much. This is most instructive. As a new painter I’m trying to focus on capturing the c=values, and the warm vs cool relationship. This is explained and demonstrated so concisely here. Best regards, s

[@RobertF-]

This was extremely informative, thanks. The calligraphic dry brushstrokes are great, and painting vertical linear elements with a broken, tapered effect creates a really interesting visual impression.

[@antoniolampreia5953]

Admirable artist, thank you!

[@deepakdevkar5437]

Beautiful one.....

[@fifiwu7021]

Extraordinary place also extraordinary painting, I like your style.

[@karenfox9982]

Thank-you for sharing x

[@fifiwu7021]

Nice design and beautiful presentation.

[@Hartproduktie]

It looks easy when Gary makes the painting, but its not Thanks a lot for this lesson learned a lot Greetings from Holland

[@grandma.p]

Nice colors and shapes.

[@tanyatodorova2505]

Thank you!

[@orahblank9565]

Thanks!!

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[@PALITA10]

Notable

[@laujazz3760]

Qué pena no poder entender bien. Es difícil para mí porque no entiendo muchas palabras. A veces cojo el sentido, pero me cuesta , sobre todo por los tecnicismos 😔😕