Landscape study near the coastal farming town of Pescadero, California. Rough sketch to start with, pencil layout, washes and general steps to the finished painting. The sun went down fast and I darkened the foreground towards the end. Gouache & mostly watercolors.
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Aweome process. I love the colors and the suggestion of the fence. Thumbs looked great too.
Just curious to know what paper you are using to paint on. I have found gouache really ripples the paper. Is it more stable when you tape the edges?
Amazing. Really.
It's really impressive to see how you can block the whole composition in such a small amount of strokes…
Great. It has a lot of mood and profundity feeling
The paper I used for this painting is Fabriano's Artistico water color block - traditional white - 100% cotton 9" x 12". (Cold Pressed)
-This is really helpful as it does not buckle much. You can also try illustration board for heavier gouache too.
As a note the the smaller thumbnail images are the actual painting in progress. The painting is 95% transparent watercolors from M.Graham.
-Erik
Thank you!
Beautiful work Erik. I'm excited to check out you're DVD.
Really Beautiful!
Wow.. you made it look waay better than real life!
Thank you for posting the process - very insightful.
this is gorgeous!....are you doing any more workshops in the near future?
Great, amazing colors! I love to see the process, and thank you for including the picture with the thumbnails.
This turned out very nice!
I have been loving your stuff since the star wars trilogy. This landscape This is truly inspiring. Thank you so much too for posting the progress
Beautiful piece!....thank you for sharing insights into your process.
Do you take these sketches further working them up into larger studio pieces? Did your Totoro Forest project image evolve out of a series of sketches like these?
WOW that really is gorgeous. I am at awe!
i dont even know what that means but i am.
Hi Jared,
It is an interesting question because for the totoro forest painting I did not do a watercolor/gouache sketch for that piece, but rather worked a few brief pencil sketches and made a tempera underpainting with monochromatic browns, black and white. I then glazed oils over that.
For the commission piece I did work on the three comps and the client picked the valley version. I printed that out with some grid marks and used that as a guide for the 60x45 inch oil painting on linen. So it can vary, but always a good idea to try it out small, and if it works, it usually holds well at the larger scale.
-Erik
hi from Spain!! really good work!! like it very very much!! really you have that talent that makes your work special!!
Absolutely wonderful!!! Stunning!
Magician you! Greetings from Austria:)
Wow, this is beautiful. You seem to have gone well outside your normal palette for this. Sort of a "palette cleanser" (couldn't help myself).
SIMPLEY AWESOME.. LOVE THE COMPOSITION AND COLOR.. AND ALL..
AWESOME JOB~! ^^
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