Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor Mary Whyte
Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Incidental Figures have a fresh impressionistic look to them. She began painting watercolors in 1990, and to this day depends a lot on early lessons learned about transparency and layering of color. Interaction and relationships are important in works featuring more than one subject. It is her great challenge not only to paint a good likeness, but capture the spirit of her subject(s). Jan 10, 2012 - We have seen that it is very difficult to paint a human figure in watercolor. Mar 16, 2012 - And for genres, I've painted portraits, landscape, floral, still life, animals, and figures. Terry works almost exclusively now with oil paint on canvases. Photorealistic Portraits are a fairly tight look sometimes. Any watercolorist knows how hard it is to avoid hard edge of a thin color film. Mar 17, 2010 - Painting People in Watercolor can be roughly divided into two parts. Sep 16, 2011 - Theresa Goesling & Cindy Briggs will show you how they capture the essence of people add life to their paintings with figures and faces in both Transparent and Opaque Watercolors. Sep 24, 2012 - Terry Lacy could be described as a representational painter who enjoys painting portraits and figures. The basic problem what I face is to obtain softness.