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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
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Southern France Dordogne https://youtu.be/4hX2HICa_6Y
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In today's painting we are returning to the busy Farmers market at Sarlat in the Dordogne - I am going to walk you through the process I took to create the painting above. Our main focus today is in incorporating figures into our paintings. We know already working with the figure can be daunting but with some practice we can do it. The drill is focused on figures and we even create some of the figures I plan to use in today's painting.
One of our first challenges is to create the stage or the backdrop of Sarlat. I am using the photos I took as well as a little sketch I made on location to give me the few distinct buildings that surround the farmers market. In terms of painting it I will keep the background very simple - just the silhouette of the buildings as they appear in the morning light.
I include the photos in our folder
The next job is to create the props - the canopies and the stalls. Again I refer to my sketch and some photos to remind me and arrive at an area of vendor stalls -large on the left small on the right this gives me a passage down the middle where I can drop in my figures.
Painters Perspective
I want the viewer to feel as though they are part of the bustling crowd - here is where a little knowledge of perspective is handy.
The first thing I want to do is line up my figure at the same height - this gives us the sense that we are on level ground. The angle of the canopies is above this line and so the level of the canopies descends as they move farther away.(towards an invisible vanishing point)