Showing posts with label Bainbridge Art Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bainbridge Art Museum. Show all posts

Friday, June 28, 2013

Gouache Portraits, 6x8 (about)


The Bainbridge Art Museum....

.....hosted a free modeling session yesterday so I grabbed my gouache and went, creating these two relatively quick studies.  Thirty and sixty minutes respectively.  I love gouache.....especially on a toned paper.  I can play with color all I want and it generally forgives me.

  

James Gurney has a video he did at the Monterrey Plein Air event from about a month ago in which he paints the painters.  He does a beautiful job catching the feeling of the moment.  Nice to see real skill.   It's worth your time to watch and see how simply he conceived this: