Chelsea June van Tol

A selection of some of my work from my first semester at Sheridan College. Music: Pixel Dust by Hat Films https://hatfilms.bandcamp.com/ #reel #animation #lifedrawing #painting #characterdesign #assignment #sheridan

The final gouache painting assignment. This year the curriculum has changed, us first years will only get this one semester of instruction in traditional painting. It's on to digital painting in January! I plan to pick up my gouache again though. I honestly enjoyed it, I found it relaxing. I liked to take my time on my painting assignments, and I feel like I did fairly well on them! Sadly, the last of this set of four was a bit rushed - we were piled with work at the end of

We were asked to do an analogous colour scheme for these gouache paintings, and were asked not to use black paint to help us mix dark colours. I feel like, especially when it comes to some of the unsuccessful thumbnail paintings below, that I learned a lot about what not to do while painting with gouache. It helped me a lot for the next assignment. #painting #gouache #assignment #sheridan

Top: Flat value Middle: Gradient value Bottom: Gradient with single colour added The idea with this painting was to create something new from several reference photographs. I decided to create my scene based off of the town where I grew up: Delta, BC. I had some pictures on my own camera of the area, if interested you can see a selection of them below along with my pre-planning sketches. #painting #gouache #assignment #sheridan

My final gouache painting for my form rendering assignment - I was pretty happy with the Rembrandt effect I'd achieved in the backgrounds! #painting #gouache #assignment #sheridan