Advancing with Watercolor: Cafe Sepia - Composition

Continuing today with my series on Cafes here on YouTube - this week with thoughts on composition. In this video I demonstrate a few tips on placing your center of interest and some thoughts about building around that. The cafe is a chaotic place and my subjects don't always site in the «right» place - also they tend to get up and leave before Ive finished. Named Cafe Sepia - well, because I am using Sepia as the only color - a practice that makes painting more interesting. It is helpful to know how the visual artist looks at the world. It may seem that this does not need explanation but in truth the artist looks at the world in different ways to help them to process the complexity and arrive at a simple beginning. This is a technique like any other and the are tools and methods we use to trick the eyes to see the world in a simple fashion. These methods help the beginner as well as the mature artist. -------------- If you are interested in the accompanying pdf to this video please email me with the video title. I am moving pdf files at the moment to my new web site. Thank you Gary --------------- Full Length Videos on cafes, landscapes and urban themes are available by following this link - ---------- A list of materials used in this video Windsor and Newton watercolors Neutral tint, Sepia Holbein Transparent Watercolor , Titanium White Paper Saunders 140 rough 9x12 Brushes: Raphael Soft Aqua Quill #4 Loew Cornell Round Sabelette # 14, 6,4 Thank you all for your...