Up and Coming Webinar to Feature GOUACHE - Page 2

**artastic** · #16 03-20-2012, 08:21 AM

I love your WC studies, I am a watercolorist and landscapes are my least successful, it is a delight to see your clear brilliant colors, I can only learn good things from them. thanks for sharing, I am looking forward to the gouache lessons.

LarrySeiler · #17 03-20-2012, 08:48 AM

Thanks...I would assess myself simply as a painter, watercolor perhaps my least accomplished, more fair to refer as my "dabblings" in watercolor. When I get into a streak of doing them...I'll pound them out in short order, but the first professional distraction (like a gallery wanting some oils...maybe now gouache) and I withdraw once more for quite a period of time. I am a fan of watercolors done well...with their fresh statement.

Apparently knowing enough over the years to carry out my teaching practice, but would have to humbly bow out in the presence of a genuine watercolorist/professional.

Tresgatos · #18 03-20-2012, 02:15 PM

Thanks for posting some of your ink and wc paintings - looks like you had some fun with these.

Love the paintings you hid away - I agree you should matt and frame these - of course your other option might be to put all our names in a hat, draw 4 names and send them to 4 lucky people

Seriously, these are so lovely its a shame to keep them under wraps.

Looking forward to today's lesson.

Barbara

robertsloan2 · #19 03-20-2012, 07:29 PM

I'm with Barbara, you should do a drawing with all our names in the hat so four of us will get lucky and own one of those cool landscapes! Or sell them. Or raffle them, then you'll get lots of money.

Today's lesson was fantastic. I loved those pen and watercolor sketches. I jotted down the different palettes to try them and found myself thinking about paintings I want to do. This may even make urban scenes possible if I think about simplifying what I see and focusing on one thing instead of getting overwhelmed with a zillion cars and signs.

Count me in for the Gouache class. I've got several sets of gouache thanks to doing art supply reviews and can't wait to use them. Might have a go before the class starts based on what you showed today.

LarrySeiler · #20 03-20-2012, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Tresgatos

Thanks for posting some of your ink and wc paintings - looks like you had some fun with these.

Love the paintings you hid away - I agree you should matt and frame these - of course your other option might be to put all our names in a hat, draw 4 names and send them to 4 lucky people

Seriously, these are so lovely its a shame to keep them under wraps.

Looking forward to today's lesson.

Barbara

hahhaa...thanks Barbara...for the comment, and the impetus to smile. I can value that right now...

jilljilljill · #21 03-20-2012, 10:35 PM

Can I get in on this? New to site but love it and aim to stay awhile! Please let me know if this is a possibility. Thanks, jill

LarrySeiler · #22 03-20-2012, 11:43 PM

Won't start this new series for awhile...but I'll get word out when it happens, Jill...

**artastic** · #23 03-21-2012, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Tresgatos

Thanks for posting some of your ink and wc paintings - looks like you had some fun with these.

Love the paintings you hid away - I agree you should matt and frame these - of course your other option might be to put all our names in a hat, draw 4 names and send them to 4 lucky people

Seriously, these are so lovely its a shame to keep them under wraps.

Looking forward to today's lesson.

Barbara

oh yes I concur

LarrySeiler · #24 03-21-2012, 12:29 PM

thanks....

Tresgatos · #25 03-21-2012, 06:02 PM

Hi Larry,

Thank you for the lessons - hope enough of it sank into my brain to put it all to good use.

I do look forward to the Gouache lessons. I had some gouache paints from a long time ago and, of course, they dried up (most of them) so while I've tried to wet them to revive them - it doesn't seem to work - any tricks to reviving or should I just buy a new set?

Haven't researched the quality of gouache - guessing there are some better than others - any recommendations?

Thanks again.

Barbara

LarrySeiler · #26 03-21-2012, 09:43 PM

well...I think anyone, first of all...can afford to try gouache (speaking generally then to all) because Richeson has a set out (think they are Yarkas)...a dozen 40 ml pods...for under $20...

painted thinner I believe may set one higher pigment brand apart from another. Since I paint creamier, thicker...I suppose I can account getting good results from the various I've tried. Winsor & Newton, Richeson...but, the color that just sings the moment you take the cap off is Holbein. I'll have to order more myself...but, I think one can learn what gouache do and are capable of with the Yarkas/Richeson..

carol_lee · #27 08-17-2012, 11:14 PM

Hi

Any idea when/if this webinar will start....

Carol

LarrySeiler · #28 08-18-2012, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by carol_lee

Hi

Any idea when/if this webinar will start....

Carol

Carol...

thanks for asking...we are still planning on doing this Go To Meeting, but got sidetracked as F&W was interested to see if I'd like to teach a course on plein air painting essentials with the Artist Network University...

http://www.artistsnetworkuniversity....driven-palette

"Taking Control With A Values Driven Palette"

taking registration now...starting September 11th...

So, as this next school year gets under way, we'll see exactly when the Go To Meeting on Wet Media will happen. I'll certainly let everyone know...

Kym I. · #29 01-20-2013, 11:36 AM

I want to be prepared for this and found my guaches from college are all dried up. Used to be one of my favorite mediums and I miss it. Would like to know what brand and pallete you suggest.

LarrySeiler · #30 01-20-2013, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Kym I.

I want to be prepared for this and found my guaches from college are all dried up. Used to be one of my favorite mediums and I miss it. Would like to know what brand and pallete you suggest.

I like Holbein's best...color, purity...but that becomes even more critical the way many are accustomed to using gouache, that is...they come at gouache from a watercolorist's background. Very thin...watery, washes...

I come at it from an oil painter and acrylic painters habit of painting thicker, more direct.

I get the gouache to a creamy consistency and paint more strokes or spots of color. Not saying one way is preferred or better than another...there are of course very fine gouache painters. Just that this is my way. I have fun with it especially indoors because I can paint as though I am "pretending" to be using oils, but without the mess...the odors, etc., which would not go well with my wife especially!

I tend to choose colors that are split-primary palette...that is color temperature driven...a warm and cool variant of each main primary...plus a good green (viridian, or permanent) pluse Naples Yellow...and Yellow ocre. I can paint near any color based on temperature I want. My oils for the past 6-7 years has been trying to exhaust and explore a more limited palette, but I am slowly working my way back to the split-primary palette I used for many many years...taking what I have learned using the more limited palette.

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