Value studies in Gouache

Value studies in Gouache help a lot in getting a good structure for the final sketch
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Capturing the mood in Gouache - USK10x10SG - Workshop

We "Captured the mood in Gouache" during Saturday's workshop. The participants were very keen to learn and appreciative of the medium. A memorable and learning experience for me as an instructor as I learnt to keep track of the time, lesson plan, my 45 mins demo and attending to the queries of the participants. Strangely, I forgot to bring my palette(but had pictures to show how my palette looks) and water container, thanks Jenny and Favian for helping me with supplies. I had the wonderful Meg HLeng to assist me. Thanks for all the participants, I'm glad to have contributed in someway for your urbansketching journey! 
Thank you SP Jain School of Management for the support!! 
More great shots by Yuen Kit Mun to come, stay tuned!!

Urban sketching Workshop in Gouache

All ready for my first workshop with USKSG!! 

Urban sketching Workshop in Gouache

Pictorial composition - Nathan Fowkes course

Pictorial composition, studying in 3 values - lesson 1 in Gouache - Nathan Fowkes course in Schoolism.

Chasing the Light series 5-8

Some more Light study series.......

Landscape sketches Sengkang, 2018

Botanic Gardens Singapore sketch

Sketched a 5" X 7" gouache on Saunders 300gsm paper from a photo I took in Botanic Gardens Singapore earlier this year. I was trying to capture the backlight from the setting Sun.

Botanic Gardens Singapore, gouache on Saunders 300 gsm paper.

Punggol Park

My client who purchased the " Unconventional upcycled garden" sketch, also commissioned me to do a larger oil painting of her favorite view at Punggol Park. We had a couple of visits to the park and did a pencil study and a Gouache sketch. Later made some modifications to match the light and my client's preferences. Waiting to start with the oil study :)

A tiny sketch

A tiny tonal sketch at Swimming complex.

Schoolism - Week 4

Week 4- Assignment from Schoolism's "Landscape Sketching in Watercolor and Gouache"

Assignments using the Composition principles together with the addition of two more pigments to the limited palette - Lemon yellow and Cadmium Red. Studies are from photos done under an hour. The darker tones in these pics are not convincing compared to the originals.

Schoolism

Week 3- Assignment from Schoolism's "Landscape Sketching in Watercolor and Gouache"

For 3rd week, Nathan allowed us to use pigments but limited to yellow ochre, venetian red, ultramarine blue, permanent sap green, and van dyke brown. I couldn't find them here in Sg nor wanted to wait for them if I order online, so substituted with Yellow Ochre, Mars red, ultramarine Blue, Olive green and Raw Umber. These are the ones I could get here close to the suggested pigments. Definitely the end results vary, but a little try than nothing at all.

A Game of tones

This sketch for me was a challenging game of tones........

Schoolism

Week 2- Assignment from Schoolism's "Landscape Sketching in Watercolor and Gouache" course by Nathan Fowkes. 

6 studies with focus on tonal patterns done using pic references. Rather I'm supposed to do life studies :|

Week 1- Assignment from Schoolism's "Landscape Sketching in Watercolor and Gouache" course by Nathan Fowkes. This lesson is about value studies form masters, Nathan Fowkes has designed this as the basic foundation study and obviously learnt a lot from these little studies :)

Values

Here's a detail from a sketch (in progress) I did yesterday.....among the two traffic cones, one has a change in tone from light into shadow (showing convincing turning of form) and the other has a single tone throughout (can't see form and structure), this is why I think tones are very important. Any other views on this?