Painting Figures in Watercolor Landscapes, quickly and easily
Figures add scale, life and interest to your paintings. There are numerous ways of painting figures in Watercolor. The following webpage and video tutorials are excellent resources to help expose you to several approaches
Web Page Tutorials:
- Carrot People Tutorial from Urban Sketchers of Chicago
- As promised, the 'Carrot' method. Also see BobBlast's video tutorial below.
- Figures in the Landscape, A Demo by Dale Ziegler on wetcanvas.com
- This is an excellent little demo/tutorial on the forum for artists called wetcanvas.com. This tutorial includes how to paint a group of figures using the BLOB method. Painting a figure using negative painting and painting animals in landscapes (i.e. simple, suggestive, not detailed).
- Painting People With Watercolors by Jim Black
Video Tutorials:
- Painting 'Carrot' Figures with BobBlast aka Robert Burridge
- This is an amazing tutorial. Not only does 'BobBlast' paint 'Carrot' figures, he does a negative shape figure he refers to as 'Rembrandt Portrait' method. They are all very fast. Bob uses India Ink, but you could either use Neutral Tint or Paynes Gray. Even better, you can mix your own neutral with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna or Thalo Blue and Burnt Umber. Once you master, feel free to add color.
- Bill Lupton - Painting People in Landscapes - the easy way
- Painting demonstration by Bill Lupton - Painting People in Action 1 - the easy way (1 of 3)
- Watercolor Figures in Landscapes by Patrick Ley-Greaves (starts at 4:00)
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