Advancing with Watercolor: People and Places “Yasakusa Shrine, Night Viewing”

This is a video done as a supplement to a watercolor class taught by Gary Tucker in Boston. This video was made to demonstrate how an artist might work with color to create a more pronounced center of interest. To find a center of interest is perhaps the first step to organizing the content. I am using as my motif the temple gate at Yasaksa Shrine in Kyoto Japan. I did a smaller painting on location - visible in the video - and returned to do a larger work for this tutorial. I use the temple as a center of interest enhanced through a rich under painting of cad orange red and vermillion. This underpainting is eventually amplified by darks around and the underpainting shinning through in the sky, figures, and buildings... I also talk about some stratagies in working with a scene crowded with figures. My Materials List: http://www.garytuckerartist.com/gallery/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Materials-for-traveling-watercolorists.pdf Thank you for your support - for liking this short video and for your comments. You can see more instruction and examples of artwork at my website garytuckerartist.com Also you can follow daily examples or watercolors and sketches at instagram@garytuckerartist