Background Painting with Gouache # 02

hello everybody,

here goes another study of painting background...

it got very different from the original.. value, colors, size of the characters... but I think it is better than the first one... and I am having a lot of fun during the process, so it means that I am going to do a lot of this.

unfortunitly it will be very hard for me to post another exercise until the begin of october :(

but I will keep practicing in my sketchbook, specially composition and background design.

I am packing my stuff and organizing everything to go to France... I still have 10 days before I go, but change to another country is never a simple thing.

Kelly, you asked about the guache colors I am using... well I just use magenta, yellow, cyan, burned sienna and lots of white.. sometimes a deep blue and deep yellow, I don't have greens or black (maybe I should get one), insted of black I mix brown with blue, it gets almost there but it is easer to get it in harmony with the other colors and if you add white you will find a lot of beautifull grays.

Professor John K, you are doing an amazing thing for us, it is changing the way I understand drawing, painting and art in general... thank you very much for this incredible oportunitty.

You have my word that I am going to study very hard as soon as I get to a place that I can call home again.

and thanks everybody for the critiques and knowledge you've beeing sharing with me.. I think I am very lucky :)

I will try to came here to check what you guys are doing until I can post again.

your Brazilian friend,

davi calil