fredflickstone
May 15th, 2004, 01:02 AM
http://rev-art.com/lemenimages/stewpingoauche.jpg
Ok, so here is a small step by step to get you off my back oabout the goauche demo...heh
Seriously though, I will make these images better when I can, they are all a bit yellow, and the final scan came out like crap.
But it will show a process.
The rest of the page is blank so I can do a few other demos and explain a few other approaches.
This approach is what we refer to as the tiling method. Tiling is where you take all the areas your eye depicts as color break up, based upon known information of anatomy, etc. to make an accurate painting of what we see. I say anatomy knowledge etc because the more you know, the better these shapes will realize themselves out to be...
This image I took from a book on Himalayan culture. I painted it in my little 4 x 6 sketchbook, brown paper for a neutral background. The painting was painted in about an hour maybe 1.5 hours, I didnt clock it, but it was quick.
the painting was started at whatever point I feel I mixed a color that looks like it fits into the picture, and then from there, I find the opposite color, or its complement. In this case, I started with the yellow orange on her cheek, and then found the core shawdows of blue purple on the chin. No rhyme or reason other than to start it with something somewhere. The minute I commit to a color I have to begin the painting.
The entire drawing started with a pen drawing, ball point pen, a quick sketch that was drawn in in less than 5 minutes.
The painting, once the first colors are down, evolves in color notes, clean color notes, not dirty colors, and try to roll form with accurate color notes, in the same size I see in the image. I painted this one in small because its in my little sketchbook that I am doing my studies in currently.
The first few color notes set the chroma pattern for the image. Then from there, I can see how to adjust any color that goes into or onto the canvas, into the painting.
All the pictures, up to the point of the last image is in a tile format, or hard edged all the way around. Once all the tiles I want are in the picture, then I blend them out a bit to flatten the image so not everything is interesting. Then I can go back into it and create a solid focal point in the area I want the eye to go to. In this case, since the head is only 2 inches tall, I dont have much of a choice but to make almost all of it focal.
The colors are created by color balance. The paint is wetted with water, and the water content to paint content is varied depending upon whether I want to establish a tile, more opaque, or a glaze, more transparent. The water content you have to try for yourself to understand how much it takes to make it flow right, or dry brush on right...its about effects, and knowing how to blend it or block it in...its all about your experience with the water and the paint, I cant teach that.
But I can say its one of the most versatile mediums out there, as much as oil. ANd I will be doing at least 5 more approaches to painting in goauche so you can learn it too the right way.
If there are any other questions, post em, otherwise, give me feedback so I can know what to describe for you.
Thanks for reading and looking.
Ron
Ok, so here is a small step by step to get you off my back oabout the goauche demo...heh
Seriously though, I will make these images better when I can, they are all a bit yellow, and the final scan came out like crap.
But it will show a process.
The rest of the page is blank so I can do a few other demos and explain a few other approaches.
This approach is what we refer to as the tiling method. Tiling is where you take all the areas your eye depicts as color break up, based upon known information of anatomy, etc. to make an accurate painting of what we see. I say anatomy knowledge etc because the more you know, the better these shapes will realize themselves out to be...
This image I took from a book on Himalayan culture. I painted it in my little 4 x 6 sketchbook, brown paper for a neutral background. The painting was painted in about an hour maybe 1.5 hours, I didnt clock it, but it was quick.
the painting was started at whatever point I feel I mixed a color that looks like it fits into the picture, and then from there, I find the opposite color, or its complement. In this case, I started with the yellow orange on her cheek, and then found the core shawdows of blue purple on the chin. No rhyme or reason other than to start it with something somewhere. The minute I commit to a color I have to begin the painting.
The entire drawing started with a pen drawing, ball point pen, a quick sketch that was drawn in in less than 5 minutes.
The painting, once the first colors are down, evolves in color notes, clean color notes, not dirty colors, and try to roll form with accurate color notes, in the same size I see in the image. I painted this one in small because its in my little sketchbook that I am doing my studies in currently.
The first few color notes set the chroma pattern for the image. Then from there, I can see how to adjust any color that goes into or onto the canvas, into the painting.
All the pictures, up to the point of the last image is in a tile format, or hard edged all the way around. Once all the tiles I want are in the picture, then I blend them out a bit to flatten the image so not everything is interesting. Then I can go back into it and create a solid focal point in the area I want the eye to go to. In this case, since the head is only 2 inches tall, I dont have much of a choice but to make almost all of it focal.
The colors are created by color balance. The paint is wetted with water, and the water content to paint content is varied depending upon whether I want to establish a tile, more opaque, or a glaze, more transparent. The water content you have to try for yourself to understand how much it takes to make it flow right, or dry brush on right...its about effects, and knowing how to blend it or block it in...its all about your experience with the water and the paint, I cant teach that.
But I can say its one of the most versatile mediums out there, as much as oil. ANd I will be doing at least 5 more approaches to painting in goauche so you can learn it too the right way.
If there are any other questions, post em, otherwise, give me feedback so I can know what to describe for you.
Thanks for reading and looking.
Ron