Most of the tutorial that I watch are from artists "across the pond". This one was so informative and fun at the same time. When I've watched several videos in a row, my room mate will say "Why are you talking like you're British? lol I dunno. It just 'appens. (I'm from Arkansas in the US) Love all your videos! I'm learning so much.
Well young lady, if ever you produced a pop of pure joy this was it. Oh Karen, you took us on the most amazing ride and the end result is just phenomenal ✨✨ I loved every second of it and you were in your element. So exicited to try this fabulous technique. I rarely include figures in my landscapes but I will be making some serious changes after this - and dog walkers too!! Thank you so, so much. You made my day 💕💕💕
Wow, thank you!! I am so pleased this made your day! One of my favourite subjects. Hope you it gives you the inspiration to paint figures in your painting 🥰
Excellent overview of your tutorial lesson. You are very good at organizing the structure of your presentation and demonstrating both through your comments and brush strokes. Your voice level and speaking rate contribute to our appreciation of what you are showing. This is an excellent presentation and earns an "A" in my opinion.
I think this is a beautiful painting and I have only found your channel recently and it has helped me so much. You are so talented and I also agree your accent is wonderful, thank you
I really like this type of painting. This is a loose sort of impressionistic, suggestive, type painting. There is not a lot of detail in this painting yet one can tell exactly what is going on. I would like to see more examples of loose watercolor paintings like this one. Thanks for painting this. - Sheryl from Texas USA
Great tutorial on creating figures. Love the initial spattering to start defining the rough shapes. Your quick loose technique of creating torsos and legs is a great demonstration. I keep reminding myself to stay loose when doing figures and watching you reinforces that discipline. Thanks for the great demo.
Thank you so much Ted really pleased you enjoyed this figure painting tutorial. I have found teaching students over the years, that practice really helps with painting figures and once they get it they just get better! It’s magical in a way. I hope you enjoy painting figures in your paintings. :-)
Hello Karen I am Caroline I am french and I love the way you paint ! ( excuse me for my bad english...) I love your style ! Thank you for all ! You are welcome in France if you want to paint in Provence 😄. I live here ! Congratulations for all you do ! See you soon and happy new year 🥳
Hi Caroline, I’m susan from the states. The first thought that popped into my head was “a Paris shopping scene “ Your English is very good. Cheers and happy painting👍💖👩🏻🎨👨🎨
A lovely friend of mine did a version of this which ended up as people admiring art in a gallery, it was a triumph, like this. Funny how such a loose painting style creates believable figures. Must try! Haven't really ever done figures before, thank you Karen
I loved this tutorial! I have been trying for months to stop getting sucked into details when I paint, and to learn to paint loosely. Finally! And I was especially excited that rather than getting frustrated and upset with myself when my painting did not look like yours, I gave myself permission to stop the tutorial (which I had watched previously) and be creative, making the painting my own. I'm really happy with the result, and I'm super self-critical. Oh - and I loved painting the little people. Thank you so much!
Such a fantastic painting ♥️ Learned a lot about people just walking, and then your added touches. The buildings, you sketched look so easy windows and lines, shadows. You made such a drawing look so easy, but when l try to paint l must remember l have to keep in mind it’s like an abstract loosen up‼️ Thank you, so much for this painting ♥️💕 ☘️☘️ Cheers
Hi Karen: Every painting you create is beautiful! I especially like the way you do people. So loose and free, which will take a lot of practice for me. Thank you for another tutorial showing your techniques. 💜😎🇺🇸
I just love this one 🥰 I've only just begun to paint people and I will certainly try to achieve something similar to this ☺️so lovely,and as someone mentioned it also took me to Paris for a while 😁. I'm from Sweden and I also must tell you how I love your accent and the way you explain the process 🤗 Thank you 🙏❤️
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome tutorial. It‘s so interesting to see how it becomes more and more structure. I tried it too and I‘m very proud of the result. It was the first time that I painted people and allowed me to give up a little bit of control. Very instruktive exercise for me. 👍👌🙂🎨
Brilliant video, just what I needed to help me with my urban sketching painting. Although these simple figures are great to add interest to some landscapes paintings or village streets for example. I've been practising the "carrot shape" figures for a few months, but with mixed success. I find it difficult to get proportions right and to match the perspective of a given street scene. Hopefully, this video will help me develop more consistent results, so it is much appreciated.
Thank you Mark, so pleased you found this helpful! Thank he carrot shapes are useful for very distant people… I find these figures shapes are useful for street scenes etc… 😊
Learned much just from watching as you worked. More than just the figures but use of the brush, water and paint as well as shapes. I am wanting to be more impressionistic and not too much detail. Very happy to have found your site.
Beautiful. I've watched it from Germany. I've started with watercolour again after 30 years. One question... Why did you paint shadows under the people and also horizontal?? 2 shadow directions in one painting🤔
Painting people was always a tricky thing for me and scared to start off, but you made it so easy, I mean, step by step🚶♂️🚶♀️, so much interesting and lovely, I would love to practice that. Thank you so much 💓 🤗🥰
It is so hard for me to draw people but I learn especialy the line we need to keep for head and how to draw losse experimental style. I up-loaded at Instagram with your name.
Hallo Karen, i am Johanna At first: Many thanks for your Tutorials! Unfortunately my english is too bad to understand everything….can you tell me which paper you use? Many thanks! Greetings Form Bavaria/ Germany
I just love this impressionistic painting and look forward to giving it my best try. Keeping loose is going to be my greatest challenge! Since you erased the original shadows at the end, does this mean that we should not add them to begin with? 👩🦳🖌️
So pleased you enjoyed this tutorial. You have two choices here. You can paint the simpler painting without details with the reflection, or the detailed painting without the reflection but with the shadows. Hope this was helpful 😊
These are the best tutorials I have ever watched. I am actually addicted to your tutorials. Thanks Karen and believe me 'You are the best teacher'
Wow, thank you! 😊
Most of the tutorial that I watch are from artists "across the pond". This one was so informative and fun at the same time. When I've watched several videos in a row, my room mate will say "Why are you talking like you're British? lol I dunno. It just 'appens. (I'm from Arkansas in the US) Love all your videos! I'm learning so much.
Love your comment about accents! Made me smile!! So pleased you are enjoying my tutorials… thank you 😊
Well young lady, if ever you produced a pop of pure joy this was it. Oh Karen, you took us on the most amazing ride and the end result is just phenomenal ✨✨ I loved every second of it and you were in your element. So exicited to try this fabulous technique. I rarely include figures in my landscapes but I will be making some serious changes after this - and dog walkers too!! Thank you so, so much. You made my day 💕💕💕
Wow, thank you!! I am so pleased this made your day! One of my favourite subjects. Hope you it gives you the inspiration to paint figures in your painting 🥰
Excellent overview of your tutorial lesson. You are very good at organizing the structure of your presentation and demonstrating both through your comments and brush strokes. Your voice level and speaking rate contribute to our appreciation of what you are showing. This is an excellent presentation and earns an "A" in my opinion.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments I really appreciate it.
Hi Karen, thanks so much for your always detailed tutorials! In this video l would prefer to stop before painting the buildings in the background 😉
You are so welcome! It’s good to have a choice 😊
I think this is a beautiful painting and I have only found your channel recently and it has helped me so much. You are so talented and I also agree your accent is wonderful, thank you
Thank you so much!
Thanks so much...Karen...👏👏👏👏👏🎶📽️🖋️📖🐧🖌️🎨
Thank you 😊
I really like this type of painting. This is a loose sort of impressionistic, suggestive, type painting. There is not a lot of detail in this painting yet one can tell exactly what is going on. I would like to see more examples of loose watercolor paintings like this one. Thanks for painting this.
- Sheryl from Texas USA
Thank you so much Sheryl 😊
Wow! I'm blown away on how you make things look doable 🙂
Thank you! 😊
Great tutorial on creating figures. Love the initial spattering to start defining the rough shapes. Your quick loose technique of creating torsos and legs is a great demonstration. I keep reminding myself to stay loose when doing figures and watching you reinforces that discipline. Thanks for the great demo.
Thank you so much Ted really pleased you enjoyed this figure painting tutorial. I have found teaching students over the years, that practice really helps with painting figures and once they get it they just get better! It’s magical in a way. I hope you enjoy painting figures in your paintings. :-)
Fantastic thanks Karen, takes me back to when I worked in a city, oh so glad I'm now retired 😀.Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello Karen
I am Caroline
I am french and I love the way you paint ! ( excuse me for my bad english...)
I love your style !
Thank you for all !
You are welcome in France if you want to paint in Provence 😄.
I live here !
Congratulations for all you do !
See you soon and happy new year 🥳
Hi Caroline, great to hear from you! Your English is much better than my French. So pleased you like my style Thank you!
Hi Caroline, I’m susan from the states. The first thought that popped into my head was “a Paris shopping scene “
Your English is very good. Cheers and happy painting👍💖👩🏻🎨👨🎨
@@Bindismom thank you Susan 😉
What a delight to watch. You are so talented and kind to share your knowledge. I am going to try this for sure.
Have fun!
Karen, thank you so much for this video! Because of this helpful instruction, I‘ve finally made a people painting! All the best from the US! Cheers 😊
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
Just love this. While you're painting, you remind me of my grandpa painting. I loved to watch him paint. 🥰
Aww thanks Tammy 😊
A lovely friend of mine did a version of this which ended up as people admiring art in a gallery, it was a triumph, like this. Funny how such a loose painting style creates believable figures. Must try! Haven't really ever done figures before, thank you Karen
Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful Karen. Once again, great fun way to practice and build confidence.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial! Thank you very much!🎨
You are so welcome 😊
J’adore cette aquarelle,merci
Thank you 😊
I loved this tutorial! I have been trying for months to stop getting sucked into details when I paint, and to learn to paint loosely. Finally! And I was especially excited that rather than getting frustrated and upset with myself when my painting did not look like yours, I gave myself permission to stop the tutorial (which I had watched previously) and be creative, making the painting my own. I'm really happy with the result, and I'm super self-critical. Oh - and I loved painting the little people. Thank you so much!
So pleased you found this helpful Randi... we are all guilty of being critical of ourselves... I am so glad you were happy with the outcome! Yay!!
I loved this tutorial. amazing ....thanks
Thank you 😊
Great stuff! You have my attention indeed.
Glad to hear it!
Fantastic video! I really need to learn to paint looser, so this is really helpful 😊
Thank you so much!
That’s a great tutorial. Thanks very much.
Thank you so much 😊
WOW and double WOW!!!~~~soooo amazing. I love it.
Thank you so much!!
This is amazing !!! Beautiful and you make it look so easy and fun. I’m sure it’s not easy but I plan to try this! Thank you for this tutorial !
Thank you Maria! I hope you have fun trying 😊
Such a fantastic painting ♥️ Learned a lot about people just walking, and then your added touches. The buildings, you sketched look so easy windows and lines, shadows. You made such a drawing look so easy, but when l try to paint l must remember l have to keep in mind it’s like an abstract loosen up‼️ Thank you, so much for this painting ♥️💕 ☘️☘️ Cheers
Thank you so much 😀
What a fun exercise to loosen up👍thank you so much!
You're so welcome!
I loooove this class....❤
Thank you Cathy 😊
Amazing video! You are a fabulous teacher and a great artist!! Thank you for sharing your skills in such a great class
Thank you so much! 😊
I love this!
Thank you 😊
You are a marvel. I want your magic brush. ❤😂
Thank you Bonnie! 🥰
Wow, that is so nice.
Thank you 😊
Oh I definitely will try this, thanks for sharing your gift!
You are so welcome!
Fabulous really enjoyed.💕
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Karen:
Every painting you create is beautiful! I especially like the way you do people. So loose and free, which will take a lot of practice for me. Thank you for another tutorial showing your techniques. 💜😎🇺🇸
Thank you so much!
Lovely, you make the whole process achievable! Thank you
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I'll give it a go🤔
Have fun 🙂
Excellent explanations
Glad it was helpful!
I just love this one 🥰 I've only just begun to paint people and I will certainly try to achieve something similar to this ☺️so lovely,and as someone mentioned it also took me to Paris for a while 😁. I'm from Sweden and I also must tell you how I love your accent and the way you explain the process 🤗 Thank you 🙏❤️
Thank you so much! I love the Paris idea! I hope you have fun trying to paint people 😊
I learned a lot whid you! I Thanks for the simple explanation of how to paint people!
I'm so glad you found this helpful 😊
Love this!
Thank you 😊
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome tutorial. It‘s so interesting to see how it becomes more and more structure. I tried it too and I‘m very proud of the result. It was the first time that I painted people and allowed me to give up a little bit of control. Very instruktive exercise for me. 👍👌🙂🎨
That is wonderful! I’m so pleased for you!
Thank you Karen for this fantastic video!
You are so welcome!
Such an amazing tutorial. Can't wait to try it!
Have fun!
Genius! I've parked painting people with a vague goal of silhouettes. Not now! This is on my list to try in my sketch book. Thank you
Wonderful!
Gracias, gracias y mil gracias.
Fantástico vídeo!!!
Desde Tenerife ❤
Thank you 😊
Great tutorial. I know what I am going to be doing next painting session! Thank you Karen! Love lovely ❤
Have fun!
This was an awesome tutorial! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful 😍, thanks a lot 💖!
Thank you too!
Love your videos!
Thank you!
Brilliant video, just what I needed to help me with my urban sketching painting. Although these simple figures are great to add interest to some landscapes paintings or village streets for example.
I've been practising the "carrot shape" figures for a few months, but with mixed success. I find it difficult to get proportions right and to match the perspective of a given street scene. Hopefully, this video will help me develop more consistent results, so it is much appreciated.
Thank you Mark, so pleased you found this helpful! Thank he carrot shapes are useful for very distant people… I find these figures shapes are useful for street scenes etc… 😊
super interesting.Thanks
Thank you Helene 😀
Thanks. I’m going to paint this today
Have fun!
Brilliant
Fantastic ❤️🌹
Thank you 😊
Thank you muster❤
You are very welcome
This is wonderful!
Amazing 👍🤗
Thank you.
Learned much just from watching as you worked. More than just the figures but use of the brush, water and paint as well as shapes. I am wanting to be more impressionistic and not too much detail. Very happy to have found your site.
Great to hear! Thank you!
I never try people because they seem too difficult. But this I really want to try. Fun and beautiful.
Thank you Julie, so pleased you are inspired 😊
Great video. Thanks. I'd love to see how to paint people walking, seen from the side (not from the back, or front).
Thank you! Great suggestion!!
Thank you very much ! Very helpful !
Glad it helped!
Realmente hermoso y bien explicado, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos 😊 saludos desde México 🇲🇽
You are so welcome 😊
Love it!🤩
Thank you!!
Thank You very much.
You are welcome!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us 🤩😍💖
Karen, have you, or could you do this in an ice skaters skating, frozen pond, foresty theme for us?
Thank you! Great suggestion 😊
Love it 😊
Yay! Thank you!
Love this one! Can I use another blue beside ultramarine for most of your mixes. I have cobalt, Prussian and indigo? So fun!
Thank you! Cobalt Blue is a good alternative 😊
Beautiful. I've watched it from Germany. I've started with watercolour again after 30 years. One question... Why did you paint shadows under the people and also horizontal?? 2 shadow directions in one painting🤔
Thank you. I have painted reflections and shadows.
loved it
Thank you so much 🎨😊
Love it
Thank you so much 😊
Amazing ! ❤❤❤❤
Glad you like it! 😊
Thank you
You're welcome
Really helpful thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you 😊
I not only loved doing this exercise, but one of my friends who saw my finished result insisted on taking it home with her!
That is wonderful! Thank you for sharing 😊
Painting people was always a tricky thing for me and scared to start off, but you made it so easy, I mean, step by step🚶♂️🚶♀️, so much interesting and lovely, I would love to practice that. Thank you so much 💓 🤗🥰
Thank you so much 😀
It is so hard for me to draw people but I learn especialy the line we need to keep for head and how to draw losse experimental style. I up-loaded at Instagram with your name.
Will check
It out thanks for sharing 😊
Hallo Karen, i am Johanna
At first: Many thanks for your Tutorials! Unfortunately my english is too bad to understand everything….can you tell me which paper you use? Many thanks! Greetings Form Bavaria/ Germany
Hi Johanna, I used 300gsm watercolor paper.
Many thanks for your answer
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prima!🙂
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Thanks ☺️
For usa Football not soccerball lol Fabulous tutorial Thank you
Thank you Teri... good point 😊
I like to review the paint.
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El problema no es pintar personas solas, el problema reside en ponerlas a escala en un urbano o en cualquier acuarela...
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the lighting is preventing alot of the painting to not be visable.
Why is the man in the middle about eight feet tall???😮
En español mejor 😠😠😠😠
I just love this impressionistic painting and look forward to giving it my best try. Keeping loose is going to be my greatest challenge! Since you erased the original shadows at the end, does this mean that we should not add them to begin with? 👩🦳🖌️
So pleased you enjoyed this tutorial. You have two choices here. You can paint the simpler painting without details with the reflection, or the detailed painting without the reflection but with the shadows. Hope this was helpful 😊