Bird taking a breather by DrewJohnson on Newgrounds

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Bird taking a breather

I built a new easel using the design developed by artist James Gurney (Dinotopia) for plein air painting. Anyway, it's raining today, so I brought up a photo on my computer monitor and set up my easel to look at it while I painted. This is 9" x 9" on watercolor paper. I used gouache for the first time and I think I'm going to like it.

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Deity-Donkus

2022-01-25 12:14:50

Nice water

Paraconk

2021-02-25 12:40:35

Yes yes look at his little man, very distinguished...

GAWells

2020-11-09 08:23:22

beautiful. Esp. love the water.

Bigfoot3290

2020-10-13 10:22:42

What a fantastic painting. The warm sun rays reflecting off of the leaf and tawny feathers are particularly stunning. I've never used gouache either, and this is inspiring me to give it a go one day. Great work.

DrewJohnson responds:

You should try it! I was very pleased with the handling. I dries fast, faster than acrylics, but it's initial block-in is like watercolors. I'm taking this outdoors the first chance I get.

Wiesi

2020-10-12 03:34:18

The water looks amazing! Great work!