PAINTING & DRAWING TECHNIQUES
After years of working mostly with watercolor paint, I recently began using gouache. As I mentioned earlier, the main difference between watercolor and gouache is in the results: Watercolor is very light and transparent, while gouache is dense and opaque.
When I first began to experiment with gouache, I bought a few tubes to try out the medium. What a disaster it was! I wasn’t at all used to the texture and the thickness of the paint, nor did I understand the proper amount of water needed to mix the colors, which were always too liquidy or too pasty. I was very close to giving up, as my paintings had become heavy, awkward, and full of lumps.
But the brightness of the colors pushed me to keep trying. Gouache paints ...
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