Gouache Studies
2yr
I've been wanting to put some more time into painting with gouache lately so I'm starting a study thread, feel free to join in! Here are two pieces from this weekend's attempts.
The first is a Dean Cornwell study done along with a livestream from Jeff Watts. Clear reference was tough to find, so I just went along with the process I saw Jeff work though in the video. I spent about 3 hours on the Cornwell study and then applied the same process to an original sketch I did of Norman Rockwell from a black and white photo, which also took about 3 hours. Still getting the hang of organizing values on the palette, I feel like my palette gets crazy and disorganized quickly, so by the end of the Rockwell piece I was hunting and mixing a lot more to get back to the appropriate values. I'd love any feedback, suggestions, notes or revelations you've had during your own gouache adventures!
Tools-
Palette - Winsor & Newton Permanent White, and Ivory Black, Holbein Permanent Yellow Deep, and Flame Red
Robert Simmons 785 Round #4
Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Cold Pressed Paper
Livestream- https://www.youtube.com/live/gsTAsfjR_uk?si=l8BQy83zXAEOzYwk
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2mo
8x10 gouache study of a Kazuo Oga piece from The Art of My Neighbor Totoro
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2mo
"Night Ride" Pentalic sketchbook gouache of a '52 MG TD from photo reference. Tried to get some of the twilight atmosphere, but didn't quite sell the luminance I was going for, but this was a fun sketch.
Moving on from master studies.
Value study and color study based on a photo taken by Kris Battles.
A lot of the progress has been posted here, but I put it into one picture so the progression and process is more obvious.
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7mo
Awesome job @Gannon Beck !! This really came out great! Any revelations you learned on this one? This is a BIG piece, how was it working with gouache at such a large scale?
I love painting in gouache. Here are a few of my recent works I've done in gouache.
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8mo
Awesome work!! Thanks for sharing. I love the swatch card/pointillism piece!
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1yr
Gil Scott-Heron from the "Pieces of a Man" album cover. The likeness kinda slipped on me, but calling this one done. On to the next one!
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1yr
Black and white gouache of Sam Elliot as "The Stranger" from The Big Lebowski.
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1yr
Happy Friday, all! More Zorn palette experiments. Don't drink the paint water, cheers!
Very nice. You're making me want to crack open those qouache tubes I picked up a couple of year ago.
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1yr
A quick still life of my drafting pencil lead pointer. M. Graham gouache Zorn palette. This was the closest I've felt to being somewhat in control of the correct water ratio during the painting, "somewhat" being the operative word here. Some very basic drawing mistakes were made while my brain was focused on the painting process and observation, but I learned a lot with this one. A few more steps toward mileage, so on to the next one!
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1yr
Awesome rough! I love this kind of contre jour lighting, and I love the saturated red highlights from the eyes. Cant wait to see this develop!
Moving on to original works. I did 47 thumbnails of Superman covers. I picked one to start with that was low on the complexity scale. I did six value roughs of this, and I'm going to do at least seven color roughs. My goal is to get good reps in with the various stages of the process.
Finally getting a chance to put some time into this Steve Rude master study again.
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1yr
Fantastic value control here. After seeing your color study I can't wait to see this come together.
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1yr
1952 MG-TD. Tough keeping perspective lines tamed with paint, but I discovered my love for the flat brush on this one! Hit this with a little bit of airbrush to try softening the transitions in the front fenders, which had varying degrees of success and failure so I didn't go too heavy with it.
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2yr
Invented head. Still trying to get the hang of organizing my palette, and paint consistency. Didn't go too crazy with the drawing, just did a quick sketch and jumped right in. On to the next one.
I didn't get any alerts when you posted these last three, so sorry I'm late to comment.
Nice study!
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2yr
Glen Orbik study
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2yr
Happy new year! Getting back into some gouache with a Mead Schaeffer study
