Embarking on this blog since 2014, I’ve curated a visual chronicle of my imaginative endeavors. Here, you’ll uncover my kaleidoscope of raw work each narrating a chapter of my artistic evolution as I hone my skills and grow as an artist.
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Catching up with art I have done the past few years. This is inspired by a very old photograph from my grandmothers first day at school photo of all the kids lined up in front of the school. The kids are in their finest clothes, bows in hair and all, it’s clearly a huge thing getting their picture taken and they are all so serious. This was one of my first attempts to work with ink and Gouache.
Now I find it fairly easy to draw organic living forms. There are of course still proportions to learn and all, but if a line is a bit off, I can always compensate on the pose or the shading. I want to practice another aspect of art: Buildings, cars and other technical drawings where hard precise lines HAVE to be correct. So a while ago, when I was walking in the city I took photos of buildings intended for later sketches. Yesterday I found those photos and ended up with a drawing of Voldbrohus in Randers. I used the last paint left overs from the guinea fowl to give the drawing a bit of color too using the gouache more as a water color really.
I think I did pretty good – I like the result 🙂 Now what to draw today? It has to be fairly quick and fun, since its evening by now. It’s Friday so I might end up following Oabnormal’s draw along stream.
I have for a while wanted to dip my feet into painting – real painting. I know watercolors fairly well by now, but I had watched a few people working with gouache in Youtube and it looked really interesting. So this is my first attempt doing gouache: A helmeted guineafowl that I saw during our trip to South Africa almost a year ago now.
I learned that gouache is insanely hard to control! It is supposed to be possible to paint in layers, so that you can paint light over dark. Well…it is possible, but watch out! Water reactivates the layers underneath. If you do more than a couple of brush strokes, you will end up with a muddy grey cake paint. I fought this piece every step on the way. The super cheap paper in my sketchbook definitely buckled up noticeably, so next time I need better paper. In spite of that I very much like the result 🙂
