Ink Sketch 1

Ink Sketch 1

Did not feel right to let inktober pass without making an effort. The dogs were done with a  pen.  The sketch of the boy is a study of at  school doors by Nikolay Bogdanov Belsky and was done with a brush pen.  More to follow.  

Porttrait study 29

 Some more portrait practice

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

Worked on this for a while trying to work out textures and lighting in between other studies. Glad I didn't abandon about half way through. It started out from this  which I  like because of the lighting.

Sketches 33

Sketches 33

Another round of sketches from pixellovely.  Class format so they range from 30 seconds to 1 hour attempts.  Did these while testing out the Twitch service for streaming here.  Trying to sort out my internet service so I will be able to do this more regularly.  

Character Sketches -Gouache

Character Sketches -Gouache

After the portrait practice tried out some characters from imagination in gouache.  On the whole an ugly bunch. 

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.