Although admittedly I have done very little gouache. Most of my traditional media experience is in oils but I can't use them much cause I'm real messy and getting things with names like "titanium white" on your skin/face is not super good for you I think 🥲
Yeeaaah I use japanese poster colours so I get to avoid titanium white, but with gouache you have a similar problem. You can use it as water colour or as a more opaque paint, but what you have to keep most in mind is as soon as you mix white in you lose your saturation,
so you have to protect your highest saturated colours as much as your lights
Oooooofffff... Makes me respect gouache painting a whole lot more. That explains the terrible results I got trying to follow along to a whatts attelier livestream a couple years ago
Right? I was really lucky with the online course I found, but it took me a while to realise why I was getting it wrong to begin with (the right demo had to come up 😅) and I'm still not entirely comfortable with it
I would love to see your gouache tbh 👀 And yeah, I started doing oils back when I was like 19-20 (I'm 28 now) and I'm still not comfortable. Granted I do it quite sporadically but it feels like I'm always missing something 🫠
Oooof i couldn't speak for oils. That's one intimidating medium 😬 These are all master studies or photo studies from this spring. Haven't really used them since, since I haven't had the time, but the goal was to get good enough and fast enough I could take them out with me for lighting studies
These are so good!!!! The way you use transparencies to aid the light and atmosphere is top notch. Agh if we were closer I'd be inviting you to go plain air one of these days 💚
Aww thanks!! That means a lot :D coming from you!! 💜 And that would be so cool!! Maybe one day when there's money for travel
Absolutely!
Heck yeah! 🙌✨