Stuart

 

Sktchy - gouache - Jacksons wc sketchbook

Doddington, Cambridgeshire UK with Gouache

 

Took my new gouache into the village for a quick sketch and promptly realised my water bootle was almost empty!

A little muddy but I got by.

Federico Barocci

25-03-13a, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

Quick sketch using gouache and Sepia Pitt artist pen from images in a book entitled 'A Touch Of The Divine'

View From The Studio

01-11-12a, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

Watercolour and white gouache in my Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook

Gouache

19-11-11b, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

No pencil, no ink...just gouache straight from the brush using magazines as references. This was a fun exercise!
(Well...when I say gouache I actually mean WHITE gouache added to my normal watercolour palette making all colours opaque.)

Da Vinci

30-10-11a, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

Watched a programme on BBc1 entitled 'Da Vinci - The Lost Treasure' and doodled with some Walnut ink, watercolour and gouache while it was on.

Seashells In Walnut

24-10-11, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

Noodlers Walnut ink and white gouache on packing paper in daily journal

Thackers Farm

27-02-11a
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

On Sunday, while my roast finished crisping in the oven, I set my mobile alarm for twenty minutes and headed off down the drove to the adjacent farm for a quick sketch on a spread I had prepared with watercolour earlier that morning.
I slipped a blob of white gouache in my watercolour palette and added it to my mixes for some opaque coverage in areas.
Just as my alarm sounded, the heavens opened and I was so pleased I had taken the car!

Noodlers Lexington Gray ink, watercolour and gouache in daily journal

Snow

30-11-10a
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

A quick sketch of the view from my studio window using gouache, just to capture some of the recent snow in my daily journal.

Andrea for JKPP

Andrea-JKPP
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

This portrait, for the Julia Kay portrait party, was created using gouache in my watercolour Moleskine Folio sketchbook.
You can view the reference I used here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42837325@N05/4671870614/in/set-72157623655954420/

GilaMosaics for JKPP

GilaMosaics-JKPP
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

This was great fun!
Created with watercolour, Neocolor II and gouache in Moleskine Folio watercolour sketchbook.
Ref:
www.flickr.com/photos/gilamosaics/3554162185/

More Derwent Sketchbook Pages

Just like the Moleskine sketchbook, the Derwent floral resists the water media, in fact, I think it's worse ... seeing as I'm using this as an occasional sketchbook, I'm ok with that.

Zen

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed....Chuang-tzu.

Desperate Romantics

After Millais...Gouache & Ink ©A Davies

Desperate Romantics is a brand new 6 part drama by the BBC about the lives of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood. I watched the first episode on Tuesday evening with excitement. I sketched while I watched and enjoyed every moment, some of which were rather raunchy I might add.
Can't wait for episode 2 this Tuesday. If you missed it, you can watch it on BBC iplayer HERE...Enjoy!

Weekend In Wells - Day 2

Day two kicked in while I was still awake, as does every new day with me. Joan had retired for the night and was sleeping while I sketched the view from my bed in the cottage before going to sleep myself.

The following morning we drove to the beach and set ourselves up on our travel chairs. A quick sketch in my journal to loosen up...



Then I decided to take out an 11"x15" watercolour block and complete a plein air painting right there on the beach in under 30 minutes with a big brush and nice loose washes.



After my plein air painting, I moved back to my journal...



The dreadful sketches of people in the spread above gave me cause for some figure practice.



Much happier with those.

In the evening, after a delicious chinese take out, I decided to experiment with one of my sketches and used gouache on Canson Mi-Teintes paper. I plan to enhance what I ended up with below with some soft pastels some time in the future.

5 Minute Sunset

The sun setting outside my studio window, captured rather quickly with a big brush and some gouache paint.

Benwick Bridge

Benwick River ©Anita Davies

Another quickie while waiting for Harry to come out of school.
This is the same bridge at Benwick River sketched here but at a slightly different angle on a much sunnier day. The deeper angle brought the willow into the frame.

Farmhouse Duet

I had just under an hour to kill before collecting Harry from school last week and decided to take a drive through Benwick into Ramsey looking for some good painting locations. Just before the golf course I decided to turn around and pulled into a farm entrance to do so. As I turned I saw this little property dwarfed by the landscape surrounding it and stopped the car.
I spent the remainder of my time here at Waypost Farm sketching the image before me twice, using watercolour to enhance the first effort and gouache for the second.

School Run

Three pages created on three different days while waiting for Harry to come out of school.

Prepared Surface Sketching

Harry and our whippet 'Scoby' - Lamy Safari filled with Noodlers 'Walnut' ink using a medium nib on watercolour and soft pastel.


Harry - Lamy Safari filled with red/black ink using an extra fine nib on watercolour


Harry and Jake - Lamy Safari filled with Noodlers 'Walnut' ink using a medium nib on gouache.

A few family sketches on prepared surfaces in my large Canson watercolour sketchbook.

I'd forgotten just how much prepared backgrounds add to a sketch and since I have had mixed media out on my desk recently for the 'Mixed Views' project I thought I'd dabble on a page....which soon turned into a few pages.
They look so much more interesting than just ink sketches and give instant 'meat' to a few minutes work.