Author: Shel Kahn
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Concert Photo Gouache Study ft Leprous
7 x 10″ gouache on hot press, referencing my own photos from seeing Leprous in Toronto back in September 2024. The photo itself is much more blue than teal, but bright, saturated light blues are such a challenge to mix with gouache! So i turned the background teal and was able to get the relative…
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Aquarium Gouache Study
4 x 6″ gouache prawn. I decided to try using some drying time extenders – glycerine, watercolour blending medium – to try for more of a wet in wet blend approach, but honestly it was hard to keep the paint thick enough that it wasn’t just running all over the page. Something to retry in…
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Purple Bellflower Study in Oil Pastel
Drawn on very, very smooth paper, a mistake I will not make again. Photo ref taken from my database of plants that I have grown (intentionally or not!) in my garden over the years.
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Newfoundland Boat Study
Painted this gouache study on a 4 x 6 postcard, from a photo I took on a winter visit to St John’s, NFLD, from years ago. I was reminded that much of the appeal of painting in gouache lies in the brush strokes, and the quickest route to intentional brush strokes is to use the…
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Fountain Pen Sketching
Drawn from pinterest ref with my FPR ultraflex nib over an undersketch done with a long blade nib and washed into the page with a waterbrush.
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Sketchbook barbarian
Haven’t drawn a Conan in a while, so, tried my hand at it. Fountain pen is such a delight to sketch with! This was drawn with an FPR Ultraflex nib, tho I dunno if I was really pushing it to its limits with this one.
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Neocolor II Boat Sketch
Painted in my sketchbook with neocolor iis over a fountain pen sketch. Reffed from pinterest. After having my ass kicked learning to draw boats for a game in 2021, I can’t stop thinking about them! Little boats especially I find so incredibly cute.
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Streetcar Crystal Island Sketch
Sketchbook page, fountain pen and neocolor iis and a waterbrush, layered and layered and layered. I think there’s something here but it’ll take a fair bit more reworking to really see it. An idea for later.
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Wizard Puberty Zine
I started thumbnailing out my wizard puberty zine! I think there’s another edit pass on the text ahead of me though; I’m gonna do the first ten or twelve pages, maybe all the way to finish, so I know sort of what my visual language IS, and then go back to the text one more…