United States
Uma Kelkar
Uma Kelkar, was born and brought up in Pune, India but has lived in San Jose, USA for the past 20 years. She is a watercolor painter, urban sketcher who also sketches in ink, gouache and on the iPad. She has taught at Urban Sketchers International Symposia (2017, 2018, 2019) and is author of Urban Sketching book for the iPad. She believes heavily in cross-pollination and borrowing ideas from various fields to improve sketching. She is an engineer by profession. She volunteered as Secretary on the Executive Board of Urban Sketchers from Aug 2019 to July 2022.
Go-uache on the Go
Workshop language: English
Gouache painting seems elaborate and time taking. Doing it in a small size (10cm x 10cm), in fixed size makes a very attractive collection of memories which can be clubbed with writing to make a travelog. Learning to mix most colors from only 3 primary colors (+black + white) and keeping water clean overcomes most of the challenges of gouache painting. With these 2 tricks, we open up the world of using colors in any order since this is an opaque medium. What we lose in speed in gouache, we recover in freedom of sequence of paint (as compared to watercolour).
- Outcome: How to use a slow medium like gouache for quick vignettes
- Minor goal: Give an idea of how to club these coasters together as a travelog.
Key skills:
- How to make beautiful harmonious colors with only 4 pigments + 1 Black + 1 white color
- How to assemble a palette + setup so that we can be portable in gouache, use least water
- How to simplify large scenes into first big shapes
Suggested material:
- Gouache paint tubes: primary red, primary yellow, primary blue, white, black
- 2 brushes
- Uma will provide paper and will bring empty palettes.
- An A4 sized Cardboard or support to clip on the paper and palette onto.
- Water containers.
