Skin in Watercolor

A simple sketch to study skin color temperature.

Boy in Watercolor

After the Snow Storm

Winter snow storms are a beautiful but difficult subject to paint in watercolor and gouache.

Afternoon after the Snow Storm

Beautiful French Countryside

This is one of those beautiful motifs you find everywhere in France.

Midday Sun. French Countryside.

Charcoal Sketches

Some sketches of bird behaviors.

Green heron with the catch

Sittelle torchepot about to fly.

Landscape in Gouache

A view of one of the beautiful barns you often see in Vermont's countryside, USA.

Vermont Sunshine

A Winter Scene

Snow storm in Nordic Europe. Gouache on paper.

After the Storm

Sunlight Drama

Landscape sketch on cardboard coated with acrylic gesso.

Reflections

Windmill Without Sweeps

Another gouache landscape on newsprint paper. The paper is very fragile but offers a beautiful texture to work with and it forces me to paint with  the utmost economy of brush strokes.

Windmill, Stockholm, Sweden

Sea Man

A charcoal drawing captured with carefully placed marks made with the side of the pencil and a few lines. To achieve the likeness the sketch must be observed at a distance.

Man under the Sun. Suez Canal, Egypt.

Buryatian Forest

A scene in gouache on gesso-coated paper.

Morning in the Forest

People in the Streets

I think the purpose of sketching people should be -aside from practicing mechanical skills and keeping the proportions- to capture the particular essence of the form in that moment in time; the "Gestalt" if you will.

Simple Sketches in Charcoal

Its Autumn But Winter is Coming!

A 35-min. sketch on mixed-media paper. Winter is coming!

Frozen Winter by the River

Sunny Scene

In honor of the Buryatian artist Bato Dugarzhapo. This is an attempt to imitate one of his paintings and wonderfully free style using gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunny by the Beach

Wilderness landscape

Invention based of several of my photographic references.

Wilderness Invention

Autumn Sketching

Here is a quick sketch with gouache experimenting with watercolor paper primed with gesso. The colors stay on the surface and remain more vivid. This surface is ideal for wet-on-wet techniques.

Misty Autumn Day

Watercolor and Goauche Potential

In this painting the clouds are carved out of the negative space following the traditional watercolor process. The background forest on the other hand, was worked out by painting it with opaque gouache.

Sheep Paradise in Norway.

An Small Sketch

This painting was made with a palette knife and thick gouache.

4 x 3 in. Sketch

Sketching with Light Watercolor Washes on Newsprint Paper

A simple sketch with watercolor and charcoal in a brown-green color harmony.

Time Textured Barn

Hills and Storm, South Wales.

Small painting in gouache on paper.

Afternoon Storm

Snow in Watercolor

Snow is typically rendered with cool blues in the shadow and warm ochres in the light areas. Here is an example painted with watercolor and some touches of gouache.

Sunny and Cold

Peaceful Pond

Romantic landscape of late afternoon. Gouache and watercolor.

Tree Groves and a Pond

Sharp Edges Sketch

An example of a quick gouache sketch with sharp edges.

Noon Sun in Luberon

Blue -Magenta Harmony

Dry-brush styled impressionistic landscape in gouache on watercolor paper. The blues and magentas are the dominant colors while the yellow complementary was used sparingly.

Changing Weather

Controlling the Values

To give the impression of full sunlight, values must be carefully balanced.

Noon at the Edge of Town

Impressionist Landscape

An example of a quasi-abstract painting. Media: Gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunset Abstraction

Working On Installing The Walney Wind Farm

Barges and ships working on an offshore wind farm.

Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK

Gray-scale Watercolor Painting

This is the result of a short demonstration painting for the Vista Painting Club. I used  the sketch in my previous blog entry as a reference.

Dusk

Another Treeline Scene

The compression of values in the shadow area made it interesting to paint. Gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunset by the Meadows