Awesome James! I am always impressed with your lettering. I have tried that in my sketchbook and regardless how wet thin paint mixture I just cant pull it off. Curious? Did you use the ash of the fire in the darker wash on the left that is under the quote?
GeraldS. I had only a couple tubes of gouache with me for that sketch, just red and yellow. The underpainting was an orange glowing center surrounded by a dark gray. The darker wash was was just umber and Payne's gray watercolor.
...and, no doubt, it was dark as pitch & you had to use your x-ray vision, or some crazy diy contraption you McGuyvered on the fly out of a few twigs, grasses & broken glass... (that's all in the way of expressing my inexpressible admiration...)
What a cool quote. Keeping the flame alive takes work but the is great and has power within it. A fun sketch to boot.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote and painting ...Just lovely!
ReplyDeleteAwesome James! I am always impressed with your lettering. I have tried that in my sketchbook and regardless how wet thin paint mixture I just cant pull it off. Curious? Did you use the ash of the fire in the darker wash on the left that is under the quote?
ReplyDeleteGeraldS. I had only a couple tubes of gouache with me for that sketch, just red and yellow. The underpainting was an orange glowing center surrounded by a dark gray. The darker wash was was just umber and Payne's gray watercolor.
ReplyDelete...and, no doubt, it was dark as pitch & you had to use your x-ray vision, or some crazy diy contraption you McGuyvered on the fly out of a few twigs, grasses & broken glass... (that's all in the way of expressing my inexpressible admiration...)
DeleteJustKat, thanks. Actually it was still afternoon light when I painted it and I imagined it much darker than it really was.
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