i'm sitting at the gate waiting for my
flight
and i want to paint a portrait of the
airplane that's going to take me from
san francisco to newark it's got a sort
of a
circular or elliptical fuselage from
this angle
i'll draw it almost like an egg shape
using a watercolor
pencil what i'm doing now is just
laying it in quickly to get the basic
placement on the page
this is a watercolor sketchbook
and i'll be using gouache
once i have a few key lines i look to
make sure that
the measurements are right so i measure
the width of the fuselage as a standard
unit of measurement
measure that out to the edge of the jet
and see if the
vertical measurement's a little taller
and it is
the paints i'm using are
yellow ochre transparent red oxide pearl
red
prussian blue and titanium white
the colors are both gouache and
watercolor
i'll be mixing the two of them it
doesn't matter if you mix watercolor and
gouache
by adding white they become opaque
now what i want to do is lay a light
fairly neutral tone across the whole
surface
but i want to leave two areas two
highlights which are brighter than the
white
of the painted fuselage
those highlights are on the top of the
fuselage above the windows
and then on the nose so everything else
besides those
little areas will get painted with
this light wash which i call a ghost
wash
it's made of a combination of red yellow
and blue
you can see those highlights how bright
they are
i carry just a warm tone down to the
foreground area of the picture
and now i want to mix a darker value
for the shadow side of the
jet way
and then the bottom side of the fuselage
is a little darker i'm using a big flat
synthetic brush here
and after having laid down
this tone i can come in while it's wet
and soften the edge
the colors are relatively neutral on
this scene
mainly a study in grays
here's the cast shadow it's fairly dark
because
the relationship between light and
shadow in a scene like this
is pretty dramatic and i want to
emphasize that by
making the areas that are lit lighter
than they appear
and the areas in shadow darker than they
allen appear allen are you in the
boarding area
i have a good hour or so to work on this
i'm painting the area inside the
pilot's windows
with gouache you can build up some of
the
trim lines like these dividers just
paint the window all the way across and
then divide it with gouache
now i want to paint some lighter tones
in the sky kind of repaint the sky with
a more definite tint of
prussian blue
the sky is a light blue that gradates to
a slightly lighter value
closer to the horizon
well i better finish this up because
they're going to call the board soon
luckily i'm not
in the first group
if you're traveling with any stroller
car seat or wheelchair we need to get
check times yes here
before boarding our flight for newark a
very full flight
so gouache is a really great medium for
quick captures in indoor settings where
you could never bring oil paints it's
fast it's direct
it dries quickly and you can take it
just about anywhere
i've got links in the description for
tutorials and materials and more
information
about how to get the gouache you need
and
some techniques you can try yourself
and again just a few reminders for a new
mark
we will be boarding according to the
group numbers printed in your boarding
pass
kind of approach the boarding area okay
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