
gouache


Seated shooter gouache study
Michael Art gouache, sketchbook 0
Pencil and gouache study for a larger painting. Seated midwestern outdoorsman with hunting gear and deer rifle. Also, a small sketch made at Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum, after “Flatstyle” master Monroe Tsatoke.

Sketchbook spread with seated shooter
Michael Art gouache, sketchbook 0
A watercolor and gouache sketchbook spread with drawings of a foreground figure for a larger painting. Includes a sketch of Met curator Dr. Randall Griffey.

Gouache and pencil sketchbook page of Martin Shannon
Michael Art gouache, sketchbook, watercolor 0
A watercolor, gouache and pencil sketchbook page spread of the main character from my father’s book, Martin Shannon. Also, notes from my son’s first trip to Chicago: daily agends; restaurant recommendations from strangers at the Art Institute; observations of artworks (“Sargeant’s muted late Florida watercolor make the viewer imagine the missing light”); and so on.

Gouache portrait of artist Matthew Cook, and serratus study
Michael Art anatomy, gouache, portrait, sketchbook 0
A watercolor and gouache anatomy study of the serratus muscles, and of artist Matthew Cook.

Gouache sketch for Martin Shannon
Michael Art bookjacket, gouache 0
A gouache sketch for my dad’s book, The Saga of Martin Shannon. This was the final sketch which I followed for the finished art.

Martin Shannon gulfcoast bookjacket sketches
Michael Art bookjacket, gouache, sketchbook, watercolor 0
Two watercolor sketch ideas for Dad’s bookjacket, but–while I like the feel–this wasn’t a good fit for the book content. Too tropical, too Robinson Crusoe.


Gouache and pencil sketch for a book jacket
Michael Art bookjacket, gouache, Moleskine 0
A watercolor gouache sketch idea for historical novel Martin Shannon, by Robert Buckley.

Gouache and cardboard modello for Adoration of the Magi
Michael Art gouache, modello, paper, sculpture 0
Gouache, watercolor, string and chipboard half-size modello for a larger oil on board painting after Bassano’s Adoration of the Magi (1563). Each individual shape is laser cut and assembled on a slotted wooden base of my own design. The base allows both for painting and display without a frame. I suppose it’s more of a painted sculpture […]

2018 Kansas City Flatfile show
Michael Art gouache, sketchbook 0
I’ll have a few pieces in this year’s KCAI H&R Block Artspace #flatfile show, including this #paper #sculpture #modello, The Card Players no. 2.

Sketchbook gouache studies for The Card Players
Michael Art gouache, Moleskine, sketchbook 0
A page of pencil and gouache studies and sketches for The Card Players, after Bruegel’s The Peasants’ Brawl.

Gouache sketch of a woman, in rose tyrien
Michael Art gouache, hallmarker, portrait 0
A gouache sketch of a woman, in rose tyrien.

Candy Guidry gouache sketch
Michael Art gouache, hallmarker, portrait, sketchbook 0
A pencil and gouache sketch of Candy Guidry. 25 min.

Sketchbook page with St. Anthony and The Black Magus
Michael Art after masters, gouache, sketchbook 0
A sketchbook page showing gouache drawings after Teniers (Temption of St. Anthony) and Pieter Aertsen (Adoration of the Magi – Presentation in the Temple). Here I am trying to figure out color and composition for my current paintings.

Modello for The Cards Players, after Bruegel
Michael Art after masters, gouache, painting 0
This is a gouache modello painted on laser-cut foam board, after Pieter Bruegel’s Card Players. A grotesque, brutal, ridiculous fight scene.

Temptation of St. Anthony, after Teniers
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A gouache study after David Teniers’ painting at the Minneapolis Institute Of Art. Teniers (and his workshop) painted this charming moralistic set-piece from the medieval Golden Legend several times during the later half of the 17th century.
