Oak Grove after Shishkin

Oak Grove in a Grey Day after Shishkin

A landscape study after Shishkin. Lots of different temperature greens.  

Zebeck After Haag- Gouache Study

Zebeck After Haag- Gouache Study

 Tried another gouache study copying Carl Haag again.  Like the ease of establishing edges and unlike acrylic can go over dried areas and rework.  

City Hall -Gouache Study

City Hall -Gouache Study

 Another gouache study from a photo.  Did something architectural.  The photo is of San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake.
 Looks like they rebuilt keeping some of the major features.

Mountain Top

Mountain Top 

A practice piece to try and get some atmospheric perspective going.  

Portrait study 28

Portrait study 28

Some more practice.  Did these a while ago.  The reference was from pixellovely.  I did them just before the site went down -  a result  of an attack.  Glad to see site is back up.  I think these were from a 2 hour class. 

Archer -Gouache study

Archer -Gouache study

Another gouache study. This one done from photo reference.  

Study Gouache After Carl Hagg

Study Gouache After Carl Hagg 

Trying something different.  
James Gurney has been running a series of articles on his blog about gouache. As part of that series he launched a competition to paint a gas station using black and white gouache.  I bought the paint but missed that deadline.  I haven't used gouache before or watercolour so I thought I might study first before trying something more challenging.