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The sunset, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1866

Study by me, no. 6 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 8 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton.

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Line & Shape exercises dealing with abstractions. The shapes were not the most fun exercise, mainly due to being packaged in a way that works for someone very familiar with photoshop, but was mainly frustrating for specifically me as a student. Since the triangles got on my nerves, I said ‘fuck it’ to the rules and did them freehand or with a polygon tool. Not the proper way to finish this exercise. Doing it traditionally would have been easier, but I wanted the freedom of erasing & playing with a value scale that digital gave me.

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Plowed Field (1830) by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).

Study by me, no. 7 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 8 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton.

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Starting Your Journey Lesson 4 1/3

Not happy with the way this sketch turned out, but it had to be finished. Hopefully some anatomy class focusing on face/hands will help out.

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Hans Gude, «Fra Balestrand» (1848) Study by me, no. 9 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 8 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton.

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Norwegian painter Johan. C. Dahl (Feb. 24, 1788 - 1857)  View of Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana, 1820 (oil on canvas) Study by me, no. 8 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 8 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton.

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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) - Good fishing - Oil on Masonite. Painted in 1945.

Study by me, no. 3 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 7 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton. This one was a bit tricky, and the motif was pretty challenging. Parrish's colours are crazy vibrant. The final product doesn't look like it amounted to much. But I learn a lot about composition by breaking the piece up into thirds. Like resizing using grids, but less complicated. Process under the cut.

Brightness turned up to show the lines. Materials used are Kraft Paper and a colour pencil. Firstly, break up the piece into thirds and a half. This helps you keep track of what goes where, and in proportion to what. 

Secondly, the elements are outlined. Very roughly, don’t get lost in details.

Thirdly, the darker values are pencilled in.

The pencil still shows a bit at the start of the painting, since it contains water-repelling wax. The roughest values are filled in first to create the underlying contrast of light and dark. Once this is done, the darker areas are made darker.

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Point Lobos, Monterey, California, Thomas Moran, 1912 Study by me, no. 10 for Landscape Sketching in Watercolour & Gouache. 8 x 12 cm on Hannemühle Kraft paper, white & black gouache paint from Winsor & Newton. Done with these now!