Airplane Rides $5 (Photo study)
3yr
Yiming Wu
Finally took some tome to finish this photo study I left half done from last week when I was browsing for interesting photos.
This is done in watercolour & gouache on my drawing book (just 120gsm laser print paper), with some margins slightly smaller than A4. I don't have dedicated gouache for colour, only black and white, so I used some watercolour to do the colouring. 3 colours: Cobalt Blue & Cadium Red/Yellow.
It's really hard to mix teal and some more vibrant purple or "colder red" using them. I should have some lighter pigments so I can pull the saturation a bit more. Otherwise I'm mostly happy with the result, it's just took too long for me to mix. Maybe because I have a rather small palette area.
Oh I added a fake film border for some aesthetic LOL
Any thoughts on this one? :D
I found the reference photo on flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mihoff55/43120962345/in/faves-193183905@N06/
Wow! This is absolutely gorgeous!! It's incredible to me that someone can be this talented! :)
Simply an impressive & beautiful work! Looks tough to achieve a realism painting with watercolor.
That looks great! Nice use of warm and cool colours. Only thing I would change is slightly grade the sky lighter on the sunny side. Nice work, colour is hard!
Oh Thanks! Sure! A bit more gradient could do it. It's kinda hard to mix that kind of effect, so you see on the sky it's always more or less messy XD
@Yiming Wu this is so good!! It reminds me so much of that kind of classic early American artwork. Your colors and the way they push the eye towards the central focus areas is really good. Excellent attention to detail as usual. This piece has so much character. And the Kodak border - so cool :)
Thank you! Early American artwork? Could you give me some examples? I'm not familiar with art history XD. Maybe the details is because I approached it on another day so it doesn't make me feel as intimidated as me doing it in one go, I think I should do more "slower" work to get those. James Gurney does details super fast, I wish I could be as fast as that.
