About a year ago, I experimented with some inexpensive gouache. I figured it might be time to revisit it. First of all, the box wasn't sealed completely and the paint looked like a cracked desert landscape. However, I added water daily and, after several days, it DID rejuvenate. So I tried this in my sketchbook over the course of a few days.
I'm not thrilled with it as a piece of art, but it was interesting to try.
CORRECTION: It wasn't a year ago after all; it was actually three years since I touched the gouache. I'm even more impressed now with how the paint reconstituted!
This is a fun painting—very immediate, like you sat on the street in your beret and just painted away! You still got some luminosity in the plants and the buildings. I have a cheap set of gouache too and use it with watercolor sometimes. I love that blue for skies. Gouache does have an intensity of color that I like sometimes. It is hard to reconstitute tho.
ReplyDeleteAll my gouache is in tubes. I only put a little bit on a temp palette so I don’t have that problem. But I also like the intensity sometimes. I find that adding water to the paint makes it behave a little more like watercolor regarding transparency. I used it full strength on a whitewashed window frame and got some nice effects.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a nice urban sketch but I don’t know if it would be a good subject for a painting as is. It seems that more is needed.
I believe you have done this before, but no harm revisiting Paris huh? Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy.
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