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.
These are the inexpensive jelly gouaches. They come in little pots instead of tubes and once you peel the lid off, it's all open.
DeleteI believe you have done this before, but no harm revisiting Paris huh? Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy.
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