Monday, June 6, 2022

Painting a Realistic Urban Sketch with Gouache

Here's a quick video where I paint some ordinary commercial shopfronts on an overcast day using gouache. 


To achieve realism—and to speed things up—I use flat brushes and I paint patches of color that I subdivide with dark strokes. (Link to YouTube)

3 comments:

Knits and Weaves said...

Love your showing cars driving through your sketch! Nice touch.

Bevan said...

So fun, thanks for the great video.

nuum said...

Wonderful painting.
Nice video editing.
Thanks, James.
P. Rio