Advancing with Watercolor:: Graded Washes = “Alley Life“

This is part 4 of a muti-part series which focuses on painting in the field - en plein air - and developing the sketch or study back in the studio. I feel it is very important for the artist to work from life on a regular basis. The paintings are not always what you hope but the experience yields an important knowledge of light , form and color. It is my experience that this translates into the painting repeated at the studio, and you know what - it is a lot of fun to sit and paint some of the beautiful scenes we see in our daily life!! This series is structured around the urban parks in Boston and today we are in Southwest Corridor - an intimate park weaving through the brownstones of Bostons Back Bay. Today we stumbled off the path and found this scene in an alley.. A drill for creating graded washes here: You can learn more about plain air watercolor and all things related to watercolor at my website In fact please cons