Focusing Light on One Part of a Painting

James Gurney paints Olana using gouache and watercolor. Colors include:
1. Titanium white (gouache):
2. Transparent red oxide (watercolor):
3. Yellow ochre (watercolor):
4. Anthraquinone blue (watercolor):
5. Prussian blue (gouache):
6. Alizarin crimson (gouache):

DESCRIPTION
In this tutorial demo, painter James Gurney visits Olana, the exotic artist’s mansion of Frederic Church. He paints the mansion en plein air using a watercolor sketchbook. Even though the lighting in the actual scene is fairly flat, he decides to spotlight the base of the architecture to add drama and mystery.

MATERIALS
Nupastel Color Sticks set:
CarbOthello pastel pencil set:
Pentalic Aqua Journal sketchbook:
Winsor & Newton Series 995 synthetic flat brush:
Cat's Tongue Brush, 1/2 inch:
Travel brush: Connoisseur 9467:
Richeson Travel brush set:
Water cup:
Water-soluble colored pencil:
Chalk marker:

VIDEO TUTORIALS:
"Flower Painting in the Wild" (Gumroad)
"Gouache in the Wild" (Download on Gumroad):
"Gouache in the Wild" on (DVD):
“Watercolor in the Wild” (Download)

BLOG POSTS WITH MORE GEAR INFO:
Gouache Materials List:
Watercolor Materials:

BOOKS:
Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters:
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist:
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time:

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