Hi all 😊
I wanted to show you my Gouache Painting of a Snail and some steps of it.
Title: ”Here I Am”
The snail is a gouache painting I finished in 2012 and one of my earlier Artworks. I started my art in 2011.
~The Dimensions are 19 x 25 cm / 7.5 x 9.8 inch
~Underground is a museum quality mount-board.
~Gouache paints I am using are from Dahler Rowney and Winsor and Newton
The reference photo is used with permission from ARP Inge Dagmar Manders.
The combined techniques I use for this Artwork are airbrushing and painting with normal brushes.
Step 1
I sketched out the main lines and some important details with a graphite pencil.
Step 2
With the airbrush and thinned down gouache paint I create the background. I make them blurry to create more depth later.
Step 3
I started the shell of the snail. This part is still done with my airbrush.
Step 4
Here I made a start with the normal brushes… fading the airbrush into the parts that I created with the normal brushes so you get a smooth transition.
Step 5
From now onwards I use only the normal brushes.
I tried to make textures that look wet, bit by bit.
Step 6
Here you see I painted areas of the snail detailed. Some are in focus and some are out of focus, to create a depth in the painting. Drawing your eye into certain areas.
Finished result:
Title: ”Here I Am”
Thank you for looking and reading.🙏 Hope you enjoyed my little Step by Step. In future New artworks I will make a more detailed step by step 😉
Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.😊 And talk about my art.
Have a great day all 😎👋🏻
Grtz Jackie
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