20 mintues Gouache head sketches

[Carlos Ygoa]

Joe,

These are very good sketches. Nothing like this type of exercise to capture gesture and the essential topography of the face. And you have done it very well.

Let me also take advantage of this reply to welcome you to the forum. I like the pieces you showed in your introductory post. Very impressive.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Great pieces Joe, absolutely confident
Ilaria

[Alexandra Tyng]

Joe, I really like the sureness and energy in these sketches. They are great! When I was a teenager my father tried to give me his old egg tempera, but it was all dried up, so he ended up buying me gouache. He kept saying "It's not the same at all!" but I remember liking it a lot (feeling a little guilty about admitting that to my father) and doing a couple of plein air landscapes. It seemed easy to work with outside, so I guess it's the same at an open studio. You've got me curious--maybe I'll try it again.

[Joe Kresoja]

Carlos, thank you. yes the are very much like a painting gesture. and they are a blast to do.

Ilaria, thank you

Alexandra,
I use gouache all the time for outdoor studies. very fun medium. I suggest you give it another shot.

here's a link to my picasa gouache gallery

warning though, there are nudes.

[Chris Saper]

So very strong and sculptural!

[Linda Brandon]

These are terrific, Joe! I really like that cobalt underdrawing that shows through in some of the paintings. These heads show a lot of energy and design and you're convincing me to to try out gouache.

[Julie Gerleman]

Joe, these are a lot of fun to look at! I checked out your picasa album too. Your lines are extremely confident and well placed right from the get-go.

One thing I LOVE about those 20-minute poses is that there's no time to second-guess yourself, as you said. Usually I just do value and line studies in our open studio sessions that have shorter poses, but now I'm curious about gouache.

Thanks for the inspiration!