And One More

about 5" x 7" gouache on handmade paper
Today's gouache experiment is from a self portrait of and by Anders Zorn, the Swedish watercolorist and oil painter. (Coincidentally, James Gurney posted about Zorn and his incredible self-confidence or...boastful pride? today. Also coincidentally, I chose an Anders Zorn painting for the cover of my quirky, funny, comic drama "Kismet," photo and link to Amazon up there on the left.)

Again, I started with a piece of the wrinkly, highly textured handmade/homemade recycled paper. The color made me think of this Zorn portrait and I set out to paint my take on it, super-limited "Zorn palette" of el cheapo gouache paints at the ready. Not that he used bottom of the line materials, but he did use a very limited palette of colors.

As the paper color was already the color of Zorn's jacket, I used the surface a la Coles Phillips, the fashion illustrator, who's "fade away girls" decorated countless ads and magazine covers of the early 1900's. 

Comments

  1. UnknownJuly 28, 2014 at 12:57 PM

    Wow! These recent gouache paintings are really great! I'm glad to see you give them a try again and the paper texture really adds a nice touch as well.

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  2. SusanJuly 28, 2014 at 2:28 PM

    Thanks, Brian. I think the paper texture--and the way speckles of the background color shine through--have a LOT to do with it. It's a good lesson to expand upon with all types of painting.

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