Callanish in Gouache
[Image ID] A landscape painted in gouache. The sky is blue and the sun is peeping out from behind the clouds. A set of hills rises across the horizon from left to right. The foreground is a grassy area with a line of standing stones, of various heights, stretching away towards the distant hills [description end]
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I recently got a set of gouache paints, and this was my
first serious attempt at using them. I decided to start with a familiar
subject, so based this on a postcard of the Callanish Stone circle I have on
the wall above my desk. The colouring of the stones in this painting is nothing
like that of the real thing, but I wanted to focus on capturing the effect of
strong late-afternoon sunshine.
This piece was definitely a learning curve, not least
because gouache paint is a lot brighter than watercolour, but it still turned
out nice in the end. I enjoyed the different properties and consistency of the
paint, as it enables me to adopt a painting style that is more similar to what
I use in my digital artwork.
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