More Straight to Colors references

Hi guys!
I'm pride and honored to be an instructor at the symposium.
I've been working hard to be better prepared for you!

I'd like to share some more examples of the technique and concept I will introduce in my workshop.
In this first post, I want to show some studies of trees using markers. I think this technique is great for doing that.
You can try 'suggesting' the foliage, instead of 'describing' it, and creating a ground tone where you are going to add the darker values step by step, over it.
In these fist two images I worked in this direction. Actually, they're the same sketch as you can see. The top image shows the sketch exactly how I finished it on the spot.

Later, I realized that I should have made it simpler! One of the ways of doing that could be reducing the tonal range. I achieve this by adding a darker mid-tone later. This new layer helped to merge everything - that made the image more easily comprehensive.

In the first one, although I used masses of colors, the result was more descriptive than in the second one.

Now, I want to show you another examples of trees that I have recently done:

The example above shows a less detailed result (a much faster sketch), but I really like it. You can see that there is no contour at all - even the corner of the building in the distance is missing. I like the movement of the masses close to the statue. You can see a couple sat right there...well, the 'appearance' of them...
The great watercolorist Joseph Zbukvic once said: "Indicate, don't state".

In the sketch above, I did the same process but I was even more focused. I use a soft tone (a pale indigo) to start landing the shapes. Look at the people on the left bottom.

That's it for today.
Keep coming and please, let's talk about it. Share your comments and ideas.

Até breve.
Eduardo