Recent Demos
March 11, 2014
We’re over the mid point of the watercolor night class I’m teaching at Syn Studio – so that means we’re doing the fun stuff now! We started with fruit and still-life, did some work with a gesture model, so now we’ll start some larger, more challenging subjects.
The other week we did some ‘speed drills’ painting heads from photo reference, and then last night applied what we’d practiced to a three hour pose with a costumed model. It’s a lot of fun to see the students getting more confident with the water media.
Here’s my in-class demos:
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Citizen Sketcher 
LOVE the costume portrait!
Exquisite paintings. How many colors did you use in these paintings?
Not very many!
Aliziran Crimson, Yellow Ocher, Burnt Sienna, Cerulean blue, Ultramarine Blue.
The lady is so well done, and her clothes are just amazing!!!
How can you manage to do that!!!!
Thanks Carlos – It all a matter of practice drawing :) Just takes a few months to warm up with drawing with the brushes.
Thank you marctaro.
I am starting doing sketches everyday, and I can tell you there are improvements. My main goal was firstly to do “unfinished” paintings (impressionist´s ones, like those by TIBOR NAGY) but I am ending up feeling in love with watercolour (work done by Joseph Z.), and here is the problem: I am confused now. I don´t know if it would be better to go only with oils, or watercolour…. I am not able to start any of them properly.
I would like to ask you for any suggestion, if you don´t mind?
Well, they are of course both great media that many people have made masterpieces with. To me the decision is based on if like drawing a lot. The more you are influenced by drawing, the better suited you are to watercolor. It is ideal for tinting over a drawing. (As I do). If you’re more of someone who likes to start in color, and to explore and find the shapes by moving the paint around, then oil is more useful. That’s the only way I could think to decide. I do some of both, but use watercolor because A: do so much ‘on location’ that I like the convenience, and B: I like drawing! – but I plan to do more with oils this upcoming year, so soon I will be doing both.
Have I already told you that your work was perfect? Only 59 times? Is is not so much! :)