Color Matching with David Scheirer Illustrations

The adult class began with an exploration of color mixing with watercolors. We created an 8 squares by 8 squares chart and turned a simple palette of 8 standard colors into 64 colors ranging from bright and bold to earthy and subdued. For a tutorial on this, see here. 

Today, we were inspired by American illustrator and artist David Scheirer. See his work and blog here. 

We chose one of this beautiful landscape with animal illustrations, and our job was to copy his illustration and attempt to match his colors using our watercolor chart. First we mapped out the drawing with pencil, then traced our lines in permanent marker (fine-liner). We made sure to vary our pen line thickness for variation and to create perspective, and depth. Watercolor techniques were also used to mimic David's texture, layering and tones, including wet-on-wet, slowly building up layers from light to dark, and increasing opacity as we layer. Beautiful work ladies!