January Proko Challenge - Landscape Thumbnails with Tiffanie Mang

Thanks for the challenge! I love it! These are my submissions. I had a good time and learned new stuff. I tried my best. All references were taken by myself. Greetings from Ecuador! ^-^

HI, Round two....using my own photos, M Graham Gouache, on cut 2x2 cresent board. This time I used more of my larger brushes attempting to use sweeping strokes. Un-edited paintings.

Hi, these are my submissions, I enjoyed drawing them and pushing my limits with different brushes and textures. I hope that you like them

HI, With temperatures in the low teens with some days dipping into the negatives, I took photos of Geneva Lake from the shoreline. Painting from my ipad I used a variety of brushes with M Graham Gouache. Working small intrigued me. I learned more about my paints without having to labor over a larger painting. I will contuinue this as part of a Plein Air practice -- looking forward to seeing how I can work this small outdoors. I had trouble with the uploads cropping my images, I photographed them in a line to show full images, I know it's not optimal, if anyone has ideas let me know. I'm using a light ring partnered with an old iPhone. Tomorrow before the deadline I will see what I can do in photoshop as these images are unedited. I hope to be posting more in hte future .

Hi! Wow this was so much fun! It was years ago that I painted. So I got myself the basic colours of gouache and a some large brushes and got started on some landscapes from the Ialian Alps. Certainly a challenge, especially with the large brushes and the thumbnail size. But I had such a good time! I learned while painting, mixing the colours and getting to handle the brushes to bring in smaller details. I tried to paint these landscapes in the same athmosphere.

Managed to do quite a few and submitted only 5 out of 28. This was fun, feel like I got better as I went on.

Here's my sumbission. I was using Photoshop and reference images from my private gallery

First time doing an online and digital painting challenge. Thank you for giving opportunity to showcase our work

here's my five based on mountains and river! digital on krita. I took the ref photos. Feel like the style has changed a bit from the first one (which is the third one in the order which i have uploaded here) to the last one (which is the first one :') sorry! ). Wondering if i should do a couple more! Plz give me thoughts/opinions/criticism!

I never done this before. Honestly I have no idea how to approach this.

These are all my 20 attempts for this challenge. I was about to pick the best 5 of them, but it is my understanding by reading some comments that we are now allowed to post more than 5. The lesson notes say that we are supposed to submit 5 thumbnails, so I'm quite confused about the official submission request for this challenge. Anyway I hope you'll find these thumbnails interesting: a couple of them are duplicates because they didn't turn out as I wanted and I repainted them, they might be useful for who is stuck where I was!

Tomorrow, I will iterate on one of these for my third thumbnail, any suggestions on which one I should pursue?

5-ую еще отправлю я здесь первый раз

I updated my digital versions of the landscape thumbnails, with stronger contrast and chroma and resolution. I tried to keep very loose and work fast on this set without overthinking. All were done in one sitting from observation as the sun was setting at my house, and then updated from memory in a second sitting. It would be interesting to return to gouache on a third set. What do you think?

My first 5 attempts of 2"x2" landscape thumbnails. Photoshop. Reference images I took myself. Except the image on the top right.

Hi, I noticed that some persons participate more than once. Can we do that or if we are supposed to present only 5 thumbnails for the whole challenge? Thank you for answering me.

My first 6 attempts of 2"x2" landscape thumbnails. Never worked in such small size. These were created with acrylics, which is drying a bit too fast for this kind of work but this is really challenging and very fun. Trying to work on better readability and better contrast/colour combinations. Maybe I will try 1-2 batch with tempera or pastels, and I definitely want to create 1 digital batch too. This challenge is amazing and helps a lot in grouping values, shapes, warm and cool colours, improves colour choice and keeps fit the creative mind. I know, some of the thumbnails doesn't even look like the reference photo :) but if you have time for giving some feedback or any suggestions how could they be improved, they will be very appreciated. Thank you

Hey! Newbie here. I saw the contest Friday night and started giving myself a crash course in landscapes the next morning. I've never painted so I decided to shmear charcoal around in the interest of producing something presentable. I do love color though, so I used these snazzy post-it notes. They're about the right size and I think the colors add mood. :) All comments appreciated!

Here are 7 attempts + photo references , I use only hard brush and try to simplify but... Anyway this was great to do this. And it's a good way to complete another challenge for me which is to draw/paint every single day during January :)