This semester, one of my three studios is Watercolour and Gouache, taught by the unforgettable Lenny Long (I had Lenny for sophomore drawing as well). It's a primarily technical class from the looks of it - which is good because I have pretty poor technical skills in both of these mediums. Actually, I have basically zero experience with normal watercolours. I've only worked with watercolour gouache / opaque watercolours in the past, and I'm finding that the real stuff is a completely different animal. So this will definitely be a big challenge for me to develop my painting skills in a direction I haven't really explored yet.
The first week was gouache only, and we did several 40-minute still lifes in class, with the requirement that they must contain an (imagined) figure. Mine were pretty terrible. Here's an example.
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Oh dear.
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The homework was two still lifes of three hours each. First was a self portrait with 10+ objects, second was just an assortment of textures on 10+ objects, on colored paper with 10% of the paper showing through. This also didn't go as I'd hoped. But no complete failures.
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| Looks like me. |
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I only had red paper! Agh!
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And finally, we're up to today, where we began with watercolours. Lenny was missing from class today, so we all winged it in our in-class paintings. Watercolour is HARD. But I managed to make a few 1 hour paintings that didn't make me want to transfer to a liberal arts college.
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| "I wish I could get out of this putrid cup..." |
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| Some days you ride the duck, some days the duck rides you... |
Expect more soon! (getting kicked out of lab)
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