Almost-Notan Gouache with Yellow outline

Almost-Notan Gouache with Yellow outline - Jeanette I ask if she wants me to help him in the supermarket, and she said, "Really, I'd rather not. Why do not you go make a sketch? "I know what she means. I'm always distracted with other matters, as she thinks about food.

Behind the VW dealer gouaches, 5 x 8 inches

J ' have 45 minutes and two tubes of gouache, black and white. it's OK, because I'm in a film noir mood today. I'm walking on the edge of the parking lot of a supermarket and there's a white van parked behind the VW dealer. I like the way it is halfway into the light.

the sketchbook page is already underway with bright yellow underpainting acryla gouache. I did it to cover a dinner sketch flubbed (you can see the outline of a bottle of ketchup just to the left of the van?) .

During the dry seed, I draw guidelines in perspective with a watercolor pencil. The "acryla" of gouaches acryla seals the surface against the later wet coats regular gouache, so the yolk will not pick up with what comes next.

I like the bright yellow because it forces me to use opaque, and it makes me paint on edges. I lay down the broad masses of near-white and almost black sounds, using a half-inch flat brush without detailed attempt yet.

I interpret the scene as a statement "Almost-Notan" I mean two families of tone. "Very-dark-more-black" for what is in the darkness, and very light-plus-white "when it is in full sun

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I can afford a little definition within each of these principalities, but i want to avoid the midtones. There should be a deep valley in the middle of Histogramland.

I propose to small brushes for details. A guy comes out on break and is on the left of the van to check his cell phone. the sun goes behind the clouds for the rest of the session, so I have to remind myself lighting.

Jeanette finished shopping. I must conclude. I use black watercolor pencil to the son.

I'm almost done, but I want to add some more reflections of the sky. I add a little chalk is white artist in the area adjacent to the sky and rub with a soft cotton cloth. If you scroll back to the top, you can see the effect of subtle glare with chalk.

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Acryla gouaches (it looks like a regular gouache, with some acrylic medium)

ordinary gouache for black and white

Watercolor sketchbook
chalk white artists
soluble in water colored pencil - for it only in black