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(Link to YouTube)
Yesterday I painted a plein-air sketch of a flower garden using transparent watercolor. I also added a few touches of colored pencils, white gouache, and chalk.
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HD tutorial Watercolor in the Wild
I shared this sketch a few years ago, but just found some video clips so you can see what the scene looked like. (Link to video) Previous post: A Family Eating Dinner, 1760 style
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Yesterday Jeanette and I decide to try out an experiment.
It's the day before graduation at Bard College. Students are roaming around campus with their parents. We place the typewriter on a table in the student center, and I arrange the sketch easel.
We hope the typewriter will lure someone to pose for an impromptu portrait. First Cullan, and then his mom, try it out.
We set up the iPad to webcast the action via Facebook Live. The first session has audio issues due to problems with our old iPad (sorry). We switch over to an Android cellphone, and then it works fine. Here's the 16 minute webcast. (Link to video).
I start sketching Jeanette, but abandon the start and turn the page when Kathleen sits down. I lay down a few lines in watercolor pencils, then launch off with brush and watercolor to place the main shapes. With progressively smaller brushes, I place the smaller details.
Kathleen, watercolor and gouache |
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Joseph Crawhall (English, 1861-1913) was so demanding in his expectations of his artwork that he produced only two or three paintings a year.
He went back through his earlier paintings and destroyed most of them.
He was not a steady, industrious artist, but rather his art was the product fleeting moments of inspiration, punctuated by frustrating dry spells.
Many of his works show his enduring admiration for Japanese art.
He had a prodigious visual memory. He refined his ability to recollect complex scenes, grasping essentials with elegant simplicity, and placing in the picture only the important details.
His memory was so powerful that he could watch a coach pass by, pulled by a team of four horses, and then go home and paint an accurate picture of the entire scene.
Sometimes a memory would lodge in his mind and wait days or weeks to crystallize and demand to be painted.
Though he started his career in oil, he finished in watercolor. Many of his pictures are painted on a prepared gray-brown ground.
A writer in his time described his painting Piebald Driving: "He sets down with absolute directness the effect of the walking horse, with his hind legs partly obscured by the cloud of dust he himself raises; and such is the painter's facility, his absolute control over his method and his medium, that with one touch of his brush he gives us color, contour, modeling, movement, structure, and texture.
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Book: Joseph Crawhall, 1861-1913: One of the Glasgow Boys
Studio Magazine, 1904, Volume 32
Joseph Crawhall on Wikipedia.
Bio on the Tate website
Related post on Cecil Aldin
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Cozens described a blot as a "production of chance with a small degree of design."
"dashed out upon several pieces of paper a series of accidental smudges and blots in black, brown, and grey, which being floated on, he impressed again upon other paper, and by the exercise of his fertile imagination, and a certain degree of ingenious coaxing, converted into romantic rocks, woods, towers, steeples, cottages, rivers, fields, and waterfalls. Blue and grey blots formed the mountains, clouds, and skies'. An improvement on this plan was to splash the bottoms of earthenware plates with these blots, and to stamp impressions therefrom on sheets of damped paper."
Cozens published a description of the method in his pamphlet: "A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape" (1785-6).
Last night I attended an orchestral concert at Bard College conducted by James Bagwell. I did these sketches during the concert to try to capture Mr. Bagwell's movements.
James Bagwell, Conductor of "The Orchestra Now" (TŌN) at Bard College |
For example, many of the players came out into the lobby during intermission to talk with concert-goers about the music. We talked with bassoonist Wade Coufal, who has taken his music into children's hospitals (Here's his essay about the experience).
Another vision of the orchestra's founders is to connect music with art.
In a program called "Sight and Sound" on December 6th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curators will talk about Louis-Léopold Boilly's painting "The Public Viewing David’s Coronation at the Louvre," accompanied by a performance of Beethoven's Eroica symphony.
They'll also be doing free concerts throughout the New York City boroughs.
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Official website of The Orchestra Now
The sketch is done with watercolor pencils and water brushes in a 5x8 inch sketchbook.
Previously on GurneyJourney:
James Bagwell Conducts
Maestro Bagwell
James Bagwell at a Rehearsal
Previous posts on concert sketching:
The "Flash-Glance" Method
Gouache portrait of an Irish whistle player
Sketching a vocal concert
Violinist in ink wash
Horn Player
Mirko Listening
Club Passim Gig
Shapewelding Sketching
The Cello and the Pencil
Concertgoer
Mass in C
Handel's Messiah
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When he was about seven, my son did a sketch of me as human on the top half, fused to a drawing table on the bottom half, as if the table and I were joined into one larger organism.
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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.
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Sketches of the draft horses at the county fair. Gouache, watercolor, and fountain pen, 5 x 8 inches.
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Red Horse Dancing is a small (8" x 8") watercolor painting on paper. It was created from my imagination, and it's part of my "Daily Something" series.
More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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Eggs and Shapes is a small (8" x 8") watercolor painting, from my imagination and part of my "Daily Something" series. This is one of those pieces that one is never sure if it's finished or not.
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Tiny Dancer is an ACEO or "Artist, Cards, Editions, Originals" and the only rule for them is that they're 2.5" x 3.5". ACEO's can be any medium but just need to be that size. There are lots of ACEO sites. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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I love going to dog shows, and I always take a lot of pictures. This little guy was at one of the shows I attended. I'm not sure of his breed (lost my notes), but he was so cute. Harlequin Pup is a small watercolor painting. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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Hard Winter, a watercolor painting on half sheet of watercolor paper. In this piece, I was experimenting with my own cut out shapes used as stamps (the blue horses). This piece has been in a couple of shows and received an award. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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Sometimes it's Just About the Heart is another of my whimsical heart pieces, created in watercolor on paper. This one sold to a friend, so I'm happy it has a good home. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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In This Big World of Hearts is a watercolor that shows the whimsical side of me. I really enjoy creating whimsical pieces of art, especially with hearts. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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Horse Love is painted from my reference photos after attending a horse show nearby. This sweet little girl seemed to have such a connection with her horse. The painting turned out a bit too sweet, but I enjoyed painting it. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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Mustang Holding Pen is painted from my reference photos taken at a mustang auction. It was pretty depressing to see all those beautiful horses crowded together in holding pens. Hopefully, they all went to great homes. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop
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