ARTIST: Aaron Kelly, United StatesARTIST STATEMENT: I’m often attracted to spaces and views that I feel are overlooked. Spaces devoid of people or on the backside of a frequently used place. This painting is of the view from my hotel room in Donostia in 2019. (San Sebastián or Donostia is a coastal city and […]
September 5th, 2020
Artist: Shivani Jadon, Mumbai, India
ARTIST STATEMENT: Mumbai is known for its rains in the month of July. This year due to the lockdown, I had a chance to enjoy the rains at home with my favourite beverage, ‘chai’. With some inspiration from the net, I decided to paint this Gouache illustration. The colour […]
August 2nd, 2020
ARTIST: Katrina Pomerance, Netherlands
ARTIST STATEMENT: After living my whole life outside the city, where just a step away there’s nothing but fields and forests, then finding myself moving to the Netherlands, to live in the city centre, I’ve craved the healing power of nature more than ever.
Sketchbooks are places where I can […]
July 26th, 2020
ARTIST: Stephen Gardner, United States
ARTIST STATEMENT: I started this project during COVID19 lockdown, I’m attempting to paint a portrait of everyone I know as a way of dealing with the separation we all feel. I paint one portrait each morning in a 90 minute session before I start working on other assignments.
MEDIA: […]
July 18th, 2020
ARTIST: Katy O’Neal Killingsworth, United States
ARTIST STATEMENT: I have been working primarily in transparent watercolor over the last few years, but have ventured into gouache lately. The black paper has been a fun background for the opaque layers of gouache. I try to keep up with a monthly painting challenge by Denise Soden […]
May 30th, 2020
ARTIST: Vin Ganapathy, United States
ARTIST STATEMENT: I used a red ink induced water brush and to create a background. When it dried, I drew over it with white ink, Japanese Brush pens and gouache to create the image. The piece was my reaction to society’s willingness to accept masks and facades, complacency with […]
May 24th, 2020
ARTIST: Jordan Rhodes, United States
ARTIST STATEMENT: For my gouache studies I like to go with a layering approach, working from dilute to more opaque as I build up layers. The dilute layers allow me to experiment with different color combinations, which can be easily covered or further incorporated into the piece.
MEDIA: Gouache, […]
March 21st, 2020
ARTIST: Jamie Williams Grossman, United States
The following are excerpts from Jamie’s review of the Nova Trio square sketchbook.
If you love working on different colored toned papers, this sketchbook is for you! I usually carry around a selection of paper colors if I’m working out on location in gouache. Stillman and Birn […]
March 14th, 2020
ARTIST: Artdrawnd, California, United States
ARTIST STATEMENT: As I always use my painting processes to express inner feelings and emotions, I never really control what will happen on a blank page. On this black paper, it seemed like a space void to me, and I spontaneously had this idea of filling it minimally […]
March 3rd, 2016
Renowned watercolor artist Iain Stewart discusses experimenting with a bold new technique.
Artist: Iain Stewart, United States Artist Statement: I have been experimenting with different tools and techniques for the last year or so, mainly a flat brush, dry brushing, and a palette knife, to explore the possibilities of a combination of my current approach […]
October 23rd, 2015
Artist: Charley Parker, United States Artist Statement: I’m frequently fascinated by contrasts of light and dark in the landscape. These peonies are in my own yard. I noticed they looked great at a certain time of day in the dappled shade of the grape vines growing on the chain link fence along our driveway. I […]
July 15th, 2015
Artist: Ellen Ward, United States Artist Statement: This summer I have been experimenting, trying to find a way to get painterly effects with drawing tools. Ideally I could be painting with oils or using traditional pastels, but I want to avoid toxicity, dust, and fumes. After some initial frustration, a method that allows for both […]
May 23rd, 2015
Artist: Michael Broshar, United States Artist Statement: My subjects are usually based on the places I visit, or interesting subjects that I find in photographs. My architectural background leads me towards painting architectural subjects, but I find interesting subjects in the world around me. I travel the countryside of Iowa and find the rural landscapes, […]
May 14th, 2015
WATERCOLOR VS. GOUACHE This is an excellent short video explaining the different properties of watercolor and gouache and which wet media techniques are suitable for each.
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March 30th, 2015
Artist: Riko Colin Chock, United States Artist Statement: This quick sketch is another try at understanding the properties of gouache and a little bit of facial anatomy. I used as a reference a photo from the fantastic iPhone app Sktchy.
What struck me about the particular reference photo were the beautiful colors of the subject’s […]
October 7th, 2014
British artist Hannah Ivory Baker uses a unique abstract style in her sketchbooks which she creates with gouache and a bold impasto technique. The result is more of a finished work then a sketchbook study. Zoom in to see how loaded the page is with pigment.
“I am an artist living in Crouch End, North […]