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Photo is not as good as it could be. I really enjoyed working with this Holbein gouache. 300 lb cp arches. I left the white of paper for pages.
I was so excited to fix up this room for my studio last year! This year it has to much stuff and is not enjoyable to work or be in any more. Should I paint today or clean out studio? I’ve signed up for an Open Studio tour in June I can picture myself cleaning the night before:)[EMAIL="artbyrt@blogspot-Ral"]artbyrt.blogspot.com[/EMAIL]
-RalThank you Ral, Lenore, Michael, and Annie for the comments and feedback on my pears and peaches. I feel like I’m beginning to develop a slight bit of confidence with gouache. Scary, huh? Currently I’m working to complete a watercolor project before I tackle any more gouache still lifes. At least that’s my plan, but you never know when I might give into gouache temptation.
Lenore, your siesta bookends are wonderful. I like the depth of color and texture you achieved. They are NOT cartoonish at all!
Alex, the mistletoe is lovely! How interesting to live in a place where mistletoe grows. I only see it dried and packaged in cellophane at Christmas, but you see it growing!
Michael, your painting of the art class finished superbly! You achieved such depth and each figure is wonderfully captured. Bravo!
Ral, your reading still lifes are lovely. You achieve such a soft, almost dreamy quality in gouache. Very attractive. I know you said the first one was dashed off in a hurry, but I think I like it better. Perhaps because I feel like I could walk right in and sit down with a cuppa and a book. It seems to invite the viewer into the picture. Very nice effect!
[FONT=Arial]Judy
"I paint flowers so they will not die." Frieda Kahlo
"Another word for creativity is courage." Matisse
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with something original.” Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk.Here’s one more .. it isn’t a dirty teatowel but a folded slightly disordered table cloth .. white, clean. I spent the morning on it and was about to consign it to the never never.
Lesson … walk away before you throw away.
I finished it this afternoon. It abour 5×4 inches on watercolour paper.
Then I did a gouache landscape to ease the shattered nerves
Annie
"On the other hand, you have different fingers".
Steven Wright
My Flickr SiteAnnie, you make nice tries of still life! I love that table cloth… more precisely I love your masterly done clone of it
Shadows and lights are well done. Especially I like small bits of orange and red paint on the edge of the table cloth. :thumbsup:
Ral, you use unwonted for me technique of painting with gouache… washing it… but I really like the result of your manner. And thanks for comment on my mistletoe. I think the space of the painting was used effectively. Size of the bottle equals to that of the branches of mistletoe… and if I had made the bottle bigger then I should make bigger the branches too… and that would not be good, imho…Alex
Thanks Alex
.. it was really a try (tooooo hard). There are aspects of it I like and a lot that I don’t. No matter .. there’s the learning. I will “terrier” another piece of cloth tomorrow .. so.. everyone put your socks and slippers away! .. husband has some inlay work for me too .. so it may be a late posting. Sorry to be stuck on fabric folds .. they are maddeningly hard!.. and they seem to be part of a lot of still lifes.
Annie
"On the other hand, you have different fingers".
Steven Wright
My Flickr SiteExcellent practice idea, Annie. I should learn how to do it, too…but you’ve clearly mastered this one! “Sit! Stay!”
Deborah
Deborah
"All glory to Him, who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Landscape Painting in Pastels (free online book)
Gouache BlogThank you Michael for your comment on my bookends. I would rather do a landscape, but I will push on with the challenge and try to learn some new things. I am amazed by Edwin Georgi’s art. Your painting of the people sketching/painting came out really good. You have so much in there that I struggle with. I like the depth in your painting.
Alex your painting of the glass and mistletoe is very good. I am reminded as I look around my surroundings that the mistletoe gets into our oak trees and chokes the life out of them. I like it much better in your painting.
Nice still life Ral and I see a lot of nice paintings on your wall. Good luck with your Studio Tour.
Hi Judyth and thank you for the nice comments. Don’t you dare give up on the gouache, your paintings are lovely. We are all here to learn together, so keep painting and posting, it’s part of our journey.
Thank you Deborah for the comments. We are prolific when we want to be and when we see someone with a terrific painting it just makes us try harder.
Annie the tea towel and all it’s folds look good. I am still trying to figure out how to soften the edges in my paintings, so if you figure it out please share with us.
Ok, here is my second little set up one of my little jugs that I use to hold brushes and some gouache paint. Notice I am still using up paint from my last painting. Thanks……………Lenore
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in, broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, WOW, What a ride! Anonymous -MRSBB (Lenore)I like this Lenore–very bright and bold piece. The strong shadow pops it away from the wall. I usually soften edges with a slightly wet brush. I find it lets the paint disperse slightly but doesn’t mix the colors much, if done when it’s dry.
What kinds of paper are you all using? I’m curious to know what works for you and why you like it or not. It seems we’re mostly working small (with my little ones at the bottom end of that scale, I think.)
Oh! You have to see what Rich noticed, with my additions:
A KILLER tomato!Deborah
Deborah
"All glory to Him, who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Landscape Painting in Pastels (free online book)
Gouache BlogA killer tomato indeed Deborah, it really has a lush shine to it and I like that. For me, I am usually using Arches paper, but my two still life set ups are on a free Canson pad 4 x 6 that they sent me to try. The little cars are on Arches…….Lenore
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in, broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, WOW, What a ride! Anonymous -MRSBB (Lenore)Lenore, nice jug!
Deborah, really a killer tomato!
I’ve seen another thing on the Annie’s table cloth… a mask on upper part of cloth.After reducing my nerves in painting a landscape …here is my new still life…
Alex
Alex, another lovely still life! Good use of light against dark!
Annie, your folds in the slightly disordered table cloth are wonderful! You are well on your way to mastery of folds. There must be some sort of award for that!
Lenore, I like your painterly set up. The shadows on the wall are wonderful! I’m not giving up gouache, but I seem to need to keep a watercolor going at the same time. Like pastels are for Deborah, watercolor is my old friend and I don’t want to ignore her.
Deborah, your killer tomato is delightful! That evil grin!!
As for your question about paper, I’m using scraps of paper I have around, some of which I cannot identify except to say it’s #140 watercolor paper either Arches or Fabriano. However, my pears and peaches were both done on Bristol Board, a very smooth surface. That made it difficult to get any fuzz on the peaches, turning them into nectarines.
When I’ve painted peaches in watercolor, I used a wash of lighter yellow over darker yellow/red done wet in wet, but I was hesitant to do much wet in wet on Bristol Board, afraid the layers would turn up.
Has anyone used Bristol Board before and maybe has some advice for me???
[FONT=Arial]Judy
"I paint flowers so they will not die." Frieda Kahlo
"Another word for creativity is courage." Matisse
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with something original.” Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk.
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