Advancing with Watercolor: "When the Fog Rolls In"

Support 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 https://www.Youtube.com/garytuckerartist My on-line store https://www.gumroad.com/garytuckerartist My web site https://www.garytuckerartist.com instagram page https://www.instagram.com/garytuckerartist Description: In todays project we try to create the sense of fog - or atmosphere in our watercolor.. As per usual there are many ways to do this. I feel that edges play a big role in creating atmosphere but so do tonal values and color. Today we build build the painting using dry technique but the same painting could be created using wet technique of a combine=ation of edges. To begin let's examine some images of fog and pay attention on how depth is created through lights and darks. For example the background becomes an empty shape and is very pale compared to the shapes in the mid ground and foreground. So from this observation we can build our painting with lighter shapes getting progressively darker as they come forward in the painting. In this way we convey a feeling of humidity of dense air. We control that by tonal values. If we look at the color aspect we notice that the further away the object the less color saturation. Distant shapes feel more gray. As shapes advance the color saturation increases. If we keep these things in mind as we create our approach the a painting of fog we can more easily manage the outcome. This leads to the watercolor plan Watercolor Plan In the watercolor plan I envision working from from to back getting progressively darker with the washes. We could work wet into wet or with dry technique - I will use dry technique for control and may soften some edges in the end