Lessons: Alternative Approaches to the Figure
I’m sitting here in the studio today looking over many months of my watercolor figure paintings and I am struck by how varied they are, many of them I would not do them same way today. It is not that I was trying to be different in each painting, it was that I was teaching a variety of lessons on alternatives to a traditional line drawing and correct color approach to the figure. There is nothing at all wrong with getting a nice gestural drawing on the paper with a wonderful feeling of exaggerated contours and expressive angles followed by a colorful series of transparent washes, really striving for a strong representational feeling.