Well, as I was not too happy with my mixed media (water color + gouache) pieces I made another landscape painting entirely using just gouache using the reference shots I took while scouting an area to paint in. So not now plein air study but instead using photo references from start to end. In this
Tag: landscape
Different depictions from a reference picture. I did not make an exact copy of the scene in any version. The first is made with more or less the actual colors, atmosphere, then second I made a sunny day version and then last a grey scale value study. Original ref (photo by https://www.instagram.com/villekotimaki/): (paper: Canson Mix
After last week life drawing session I was inspired to draw the same pose of the model into a fantasy lake scene and practice water colors as well. I was wondering whether to use watercolors or gouache, but I ended up using watercolor and added details with prismacolor pencils. wip shot with only water colors:
My image for an assignment to draw Spring landscape, shadows and light, with a living creature. So my valiant chihuahua posed for me in the forest trail. I wanted to draw midday sunny day, which luckily came by as I was working from home, so I managed to go for a quick walk during the
Soila Art 