Most of my illustration work is digital, but sometimes I get the hankering to just sit down and work with actual PAINT so I decided to get out my gouache and make a painting just for fun.
Well, I’m a BIG Harry Potter fan and I am super excited about the last movie coming out this weekend, so for my fun little painting I decided to paint two of my favorite characters and cutest couple ever – Ron and Hermione.
My sketch is just a small thumbnail in my sketchbook. I didn’t even bother refining it; I just scanned it, blew it up in Photoshop, adjusted the color, then printed it out on a piece of heavyweight bristol paper. I then taped it down to a board and painted right on top of it.
Here’s some process pics and a video of the entire painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxSloIZDkvk
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Turned out super cute! Love seeing the process.
Beautiful artwork, and my faves are Hermione and Ron too. Thanks for sharing this!
I just shared this video on fb and also tweeted about it. You are very talented Dani and really generous in sharing your talent with all. :) Thx!
Simply Amazing! Hope you are planning to sell that as a print cause it’s wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing!
dani, can I ask what is the size of bristol board you use? What did you use to mask the edges of your painting….and what kind of printer do you have that you can put a peice of bristol board through? Sorry, I’m really trying to learn here….thank you so much!!!
The bristol is 11″x14″. The actual painting size is probably more like 8″x10″ or 8.5″x11″. It’s masked with white artist tape. Regular masking tape works too, but artist tape is usually a little easier to peel off. I have an Epson R1900 printer.
Wonderful work!!! Do you dilute your gouache with much water? Do you ever apply gouache undiluted straight from the tube (or palette paper)?
Thanks,
Jackson
I rarely use undiluted gouache. In fact, right after I buy it I squeeze the whole tube into a canister and add a little water.