'Carmel' 🐅🖼️ sharing creative process

👑Part of the 'With You' series🎨

Piece Title: Carmel
Size: 8" x 13"
Materials: gouache on cold press watercolor paper
SUI 12 Pastel Gouache Set + Windsor & Newton Designer's Gouache

completed Sept. 2023

Other Process Work!
Here's where it started and where it ended up.



(edit: I found the hedge photo! )

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I'll also put any leftovers onto my Etsy shop at a later date if you miss this one.
Since this is also my first sticker on this Patreon, I only have a limited number too because I'm not expecting a huge mail out this month, as we've just started.
We'll see how it goes!

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all my love,

LITTLELIST  



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TRANSCRIPT:
[same as CC but written out for you]

(intro // 00:10-00:22)
(timelapse // 00:23-08:12)
hi friends, I'm going to attempt to do my first voice over for Patreon for this video.. and talk about this painting and how it came to be.
so, I painted this back in September 2023. it is.. size wise I want to say 12 by 5? something like that? (*I was wrong lol it is 8 by 13) I kind of cut down a larger piece of watercolor paper for it.. it was a larger piece of paper and then I chopped it in half. The paint that I used was two types of gouaches, I will link them in the text post.  

At this point, I was just starting off painting pieces traditionally again after a long time doing digital work. And this piece has our little princess and the tiger walking along on some steps and along some foliage and these floating framed art work things.  I had this idea for this piece when I went out with my partner at the time to Carmel, and it was during one of the art festival weekends that was happening there. Carmel is a area in northern California that has quite a lot of small art galleries along one strip. That partner at the time brought me there because, I'd never been there before, and he knew that I was trying to get back into more committed art making, so we thought I'd be good inspiration to go walk through some galleries. at one of the galleries we walked through, I was just obsessed with this one painter's work. I was like high also at the time? We took an edible, because why not- and this one painter's work (unfortunately I can't remember his name anymore at this point) I think it was a local artist. He did these huge landscapes in pointilism. Basically these really large landscapes in this dark base color background, and all these tiny colorful dots that would make up the details of the landscape. And I was so mesmerized by the precision and the spaces between each dot and how much control it looked like he had placing each mark down to make this huge sprawling window into this world.. and it really stuck with me.  

Eventually, we walk through a few more galleries', and we both get to a point where we need to pee, we need to go to the bathroom. so we find the nearest public bathroom, and the bathrooms are tucked in this little small courtyard park situation between two buildings.. and in the courtyard, there's like some trees, and a garden, and this little round stone bench area, in front of this hedge. This really cleanly trimmed hedge. And I'm waiting for that partner to come out of the bathroom. And I'm just staring at this hedge, and the bench. It's probably because I was high, but the leaves and the shadows made me think of the pointillism paintings, and I felt like the little bench looked like a stage.. or just that it would look cute with some little characters on it. And it made me want to paint these little characters in this sorta whimsical scene.  So, that's how this painting came about basically! I went home that day, and started sketching little thumbnails in my sketchbook. I didn't immediately start painting I think- If I remember correctly, I like.. sketched it in my sketchbook and left it for some weeks or days, I don't remember. Um, I did some color thumbnails.. and I'll add that into the text of the post here so you can see the process, but this video is the full timelapse of when I did paint it and I really like it! I think it's cute! I think you can definitely see my influence from Ikegami Yoriyuki . I really love Ikegami Yoriyuki and I definitely think that they have a big influence on me with especially how I drew the tiger. And yeah, um, that is all I have for this backstory- I hope you enjoyed hearing me talk a little bit about it. Let me know what you think of these little chit chats.. I hope to do more of them but I need to get a little more comfortable doing them for sure. Um, but yeah! Let me know what thoughts you have and.. really appreciate your support. Oh and this month's happy mail reward pulls from this painting, I basically took the characters and kept a bit of the background- but I think it looks cute! I hope that you think it looks cute too and I hope you like it if you're in that tier. Thanks so much for watching, and listening and supporting and I will.. catch you next time!

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