Hello,
I am still testing the Daniel Smith gouache paints I reviewed last month.
The pigments and their characteristics are the same as they are in watercolours, but I am not a gouache painter, so I am exploring techniques that are unfamiliar to me, which I find very interesting and also a lot of fun. One of the pleasures of painting in a new medium is that there is no pressure, because you don’t have the usual expectations.
One of my experiments is to paint the same seascape in gouache, twice. In the first one I am using the gouache as I would watercolours: a lot of water, wet-on-wet, the white is the reserved paper. In the second one I am using the gouache as I would acrylics: much thicker, on dry paper, mixing the colours with white, and the pure white is not the paper, it is white paint. Here is an example: in the first painting, the cloud is lifted to reveal the paper while in the second painting the cloud is painted with white paint on top of the sky.
Materials used:
Etcher sketchbook, A5
Daniel Smith gouache paints
Meeden ceramic palette – Please click here for a link to the ceramic mixing palette I am using in the video (You can get 10% your whole order on the Meeden site with the coupon SANDRINE10)
Brushes: Pro Arte flat brush (large), Princeton Neptune flat brush (small) and Pro Arte Series 007 round brush
Masking tape
You can see tutorials for both paintings in the video below.
I am having a lot of fun playing with the gouache paints and I am constantly surprised with the results. In this experiment, my favourite painting is not the one I would have expected… What about you? Which one do you like best? Do you paint in gouache? If you do and have tips to share with the rest of us, please do… You can use the comments below…
Happy Painting!
Sandrine
Sandrine Maugy 