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Blog: Stef's sketches (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Stef's sketches (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Gouache painting of the Petersen Museum last weekend.
Blog: drawings & sketches - dibujandoarte (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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a drawing based after Frans Hals' painting "Malle Babbe". coloured markers, indian ink and white gouache on paper
Blog: Gurney Journey (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Painting portraits from life takes on a new intensity when your subjects are talking and moving around in their natural environment.
In this unique video workshop, I'll bring you along as I paint people in four dynamic situations: fairgoers in a lunch line, a historical re-enactor at an outdoor museum, a farmer in a barn, and a gathering of Sacred Harp singers.
Scott Corey, historical interpreter at Sturbridge Village Gouache, 5 x 5 inches. |
Sacred Harp Convention, casein |
At various points in the video, people get up and move, or I screw up, and I show how I fix it.
“With words and paint Jim Gurney demonstrates the joy of sketching and painting people from life. A must view for all artists!”—Everett Raymond Kinstler, N.A., AWS
“Portraits in The Wild is a supremely inspiring video to watch and an invitation to all aspiring artists to venture out and give it a go no matter where you are in your creative journey.”—Garin Baker, Carriage House Art Studios
"The thing that truly impresses however, is that the viewer can apply these techniques to any medium. Clearly, James has his own style, but these videos help to impart basics on HOW to approach these subjects. This is especially important with painting people in public, since painting people is difficult even for the best of us." —Michael Mrak, Design Director, Scientific American
"Aside from his step by step demonstrations, Jim teaches as much by his calmness and humor in the face of artistic challenges as he does with technical information. His special emphasis is to return again and again to clear artistic thinking amid the chaos of the passing parade; the timeless fundamentals of gesture, value, drawing and suggestion."�Kev Ferrara, artist of Dead Rider
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66 minutes running time. It will be available in two forms:
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DVD (includes narrated slide show of more examples) $24.50
Tune into Facebook Live on Monday the 13th at noon EST for a live demo with prizes and discounts.
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Blog: the dust of everyday life (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Gurney Journey (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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My car is in the shop for new tires. It's too cold to paint outside, so I set up by the coffee machine. The car goes up on the lift. An impact wrench rattles. I've got about an hour.
Van Kleeck's Tire, Gouache, 5 x 8 inches, 1 hour |
This video shows a few stages of the process. (Sweater vest by Jeanette) (Link to the video on YouTube).
I set up a warm foreground and a cool background, going quite dark in the transition between them. The cool note of the computer screen in the near office was an exception to the warm foreground, like a dot on a taijitu.
I invent the color statement to add depth and mood. The actual scene is more evenly lit with uniformly colored fluorescent lights.
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If you've been thinking of getting into Guerilla Gouache, there's no time like the present. Here's all you need to get started:
Pentalic watercolor sketchbook
Holbein gouache set
Richeson travel brush set
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Celluloid Mickey, gouache, 5x5 inches |
Esopus Island, gouache over blue underpainting, 4 x 4 inches. |
I have kayaked out there in the spring to see the rare wildflowers with names like Indian Pipes and Dutchman's Breeches. They're hard to find on the mainland because they get eaten by the deer. It's also a nesting colony for Canada geese, so you have to be careful in the spring, or they will attack you if you get anywhere near their nests.
Esopus Island was also the place where renowned occultist Aleister Crowley spent 40 days in meditation. He worked on his breathing, visited his past lives, and practiced sex magick with several women who visited him on the island. According to one account:
"With little more than a tent, a leaky sailing canoe, and some red paint, when he was not meditating cross-legged for hours at a time on the beach, he spent his time smearing DO WHAT THOU WILT and EVERY MAN AND EVERY WOMAN IS A STAR across the rocky cliffs facing the passing steamers. The local farmers kept him alive with gifts of eggs, milk, and sweet corn...."Read the rest about Crowley's meditative practices online: The Hermit of Esopus Island
Wikipedia on Aleister Crowley
(I'll continue the Harold Speed this next Friday -- I'm a little behind because of deadlines.)
"Gouache in the Wild"
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• DVD at Purchase at Kunaki.com (Region 1 encoded NTSC video) $24.50
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Blog: Gurney Journey (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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In this new YouTube video, I demonstrate a useful principle that will help you with speed and accuracy in plein-air painting. (Link to YouTube)
I do a study of an excavator in gouache (opaque watercolor), using big brushes and big shapes at first, and then I finish with smaller brushes, spending time only on the details that interest me the most. The whole study took about two hours, but it gave me essential information as I developed the design for the giant robot.
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When a hearse pulls up in front of your house, paint it! Because you can't paint it once you're inside it.
1967 Oldsmobile hearse, gouache, 5 x 8 inches, by James Gurney |
Blog: Illustration Friday Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Matte Stephens, an illustrator and painter from New England, creates wonderful, whimsical cityscapes and anthropomorphized animal scenes. The influence of Mid-Century artists like Alexander Girard, Charles & Ray Eames, Ben Shahn and Paul Klee are clear in his vintage style. His impressive client list includes Tiffany & CO, American Express and Jonathan Adler, and Chronicle Books.
See more of Matte’s fantastic work here: Website | Etsy Shop
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In Salida, Colorado, we wake up early and paint in the alleys. I use a limited palette of titanium white, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, and Prussian blue (also called iron blue).
I choose those pigments because they're enough to mix anything in the scene, and I am guaranteed that the overall effect will be harmonious.
Finally, here's Jeanette's sketch of the same alley earlier in the day, using transparent watercolor and a Micron 02 pen. "This is line and wash," she says. "I lay it in with pencil, then put in the washes, then finish it off with pen. I like having a pen to define forms with lines and dots."
Glenn Tait had a couple questions after yesterday's post:
What is the "open" time on the palette with casein compared to gouache?
The good thing is that the texture of the paint changes as it dries from runny to thick, and that's what you need at various stages of the painting. I like to have runny, wet paint at the beginning as I'm laying in the big areas, and thicker, goopier paint for highlights and accents at the end. If I want to paint for more than a couple of hours, I just wipe off the palette and squeeze out new colors.
Predawn, Denver, Gouache |
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Amazing what you find when you start cleaning the studio in earnest. #silverpoint #ink and #gouache #original © 2011 by Lisa Firke.
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"Train Crossing," gouache, 5 x 8 inches |
Because every element in the scene was unloved and probably never painted by an artist before, I felt an even greater accountability to capture it as faithfully as I could.
I like gouache for a subject like this because it lets me paint the most delicate forms, such as the fine electrical wires and the far crossing gates in the distance, which were as small as slivers.
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