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Advancing with Watercolor: Family Tume - Working with the Figure

Family Time at the Beach Your support goes a long way in helping me to continue to publish on YouTube and other venues. Each like and subscribe and share boosts the channel . When you enroll in a class you support me and enable me to continue to post FREE content to YouTube 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 instagram page   / garytuckerartist   PDF - https://userfiles.faso.us/98794/24490... Putting some figures into our painting invokes a special type of anxiety - but this can be mastered with practice and the result will allow you to communicate with more feeling depth and humor. The difficulty arises because we are humans and we have a keen eye when it comes to understanding the human body in motion. To drive home the point if you make a mistake in painting your tree you will know but chances are nobody else will know, they will still see it as a tree. Maybe and arborist will know that the canopy you painted on your elm tree is more like a cottonwood but everyone else will see it as a tree. The same scenario is different when painting figures - if you make a mistake when painting a person everyone sees it right away. Is that person a contortionist or what? No it is just a person bending over to lift something. So let's not waste another moment lets practice making figure. I find it helpful to start with the large masses first. Torso, just a block. Legs 2 , arms one swinging one close to the body, head not to big...on you scrap paper start to play with figures with practice you will find that you learn to reduce the figures to a few calligraphic marks. When thinking of figures for you paintings ask yourself what kind of poses would be common in this setting, then do some research. For example in today's painting the figures are beach goers and the types of poses they have are unique