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In this demo I use acrylic gouache to replicate a piece of bright and trippy concept art made by Mary Blair for Disney's 1951 classic, Alice in Wonderland! I'm obsessed with painting on black paper. Gouache's super power of being bright and opaque makes it the perfect medium for a deep, dark background. In this video I talk about how to get that bright contrast along with some tips on colour mixing. ((Scroll down for a guide to the colours I mix))
If there is a piece of concept art that you would like me to try, or, if there is a specific technique that you want to learn more about, let me know in the comments below! Thanks for watching!
Also... for anyone who watches the entire video ;) here is the definition I found when Googling the "The Mandela Effect"
* it is an observed phenomenon in which a large segment of the population misremembers a significant event or shares a memory of an event that did not actually occur.
List of materials used in this video:
Sable watercolour brush in sizes 6 and 1
masking tape (USE WASHI TAPE)
Black cold press watercolour paper
White pencil crayon
Acrylic gouache in:
Primary White
Primary Black
Primary Magenta
Pure Red
Scarlet
Opera
Luminous Red
Primary Cyan
Ultra Marine
Primary yellow
1. tomato red for awning & plants: Pure Red, Luminous Red, Scarlet (+white to create coral tint)
2. blue for Alice's dress: Primary Cyan, Ultra Marine, White
3. Alice's hair: White base, Primary Yellow
4. Trippy road: Primary Magenta, Opera, Ultra Marine
5. Tree: Primary Red, Primary Cyan, Primary Yellow, Black, White (+black & red for bark tint)
6. Turquoise wings: Primary Cyan, Primary Yellow, White
7. CHARTREUSE (lol): Primary Cyan, Primary Yellow, White, Black
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Hey Erica! I’ve been enjoying your channel so much, I’ve been a huge fan of Mary Blair since I was a kid, watching you replicate and honor her work with so much warmth and joy has been so delightful! It’s inspired me to try out a piece of hers with confidence now by watching your process. I’m mesmerized by your additional texture techniques in multiple pieces! I’d love to see a video revolving around that process, it seems effortless yet adds so, so much to each piece. Ones that come to mind are in the Maurice video, the right wall texture and in the Lady and the Tramp video, the luminous qualities, the silhouetted Cinderella castle texture. I’m intrigued to learn more about those type of effects in gouache. Loved the color theory video! 👍🏻 You’ve taught me so much already, from one Mary Blair fan to another; thanks a bunch Erin! :) Victoria
@children_of_the_craft
11 ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you so much for your kind comment! I'm happy to hear that I have inspired you to try painting some pieces of Mary's work. I will definitely focus on texture for the next video. Thank you for the input and request! I'm excited to find the right piece for this challenge ;) And I'm glad you enjoyed the colour theory video... it was one of my first! Comments like yours are so encouraging :D
@momentotori1243
11 ай бұрын
@@children_of_the_craft I’m excited to see what you’ll do next! Here for it:) Thanks again Erin!
Love these vids, Mary Blair is such an inspiration for me too!!!
@children_of_the_craft
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos. I have a lot of fun making them. And it's nice to meet another Mary Blair fan :)
Thank you for making this. I'm learning how to paint with gouache now and these are helping a lot.
@children_of_the_craft
Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks for watching! If you have any questions about using gouache, let me know :)
So pretty!
@children_of_the_craft
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and for the comment!
Thanks for breaking down the colors and explaining their relationships, super helpful!
@children_of_the_craft
Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome! And lol "Berenstein" YOU GET IT! I'm also from that hologram.
I’m loving your videos! I’m wondering how she would have gotten such bright colors? Were paints like opera pink a thing?
@children_of_the_craft
15 күн бұрын
Hi! First, thank you for the compliment! I'm happy to hear that you're enjoying my channel. As for the bright colours.... I was curious about that as well, so I did some research... fluorescent paints were invented in the 1930 by Joseph and Robert Switzer (known as the 'Switzer Brothers') -- it's a cool story! After a fall, Robert suffered a severe head injury that resulted in a severed optic nerve. His doctor confined him to a dark room while he waited for his sight to recover. And that inspired his brother, Joseph, who was a chemist, to find compounds that glowed in a black light. Whether or not Mary Blair used flourescent paint or not is a mystery to me, but it would have been available. In this piece the black background would have helped make any saturated colour extra bright, so she may have just been using regular pigments.
Excellent🩷
@children_of_the_craft
4 ай бұрын
Thanks!