I recently switched from transparent watercolor paint to gouache (opaque watercolor) and it’s been a big leap towards helping me find my painting style. For years, my style has been dictated by what I am able to paint, which is one reason I painted so many color wheels. But with this piece, I’m getting much closer to painting how I want to paint, which is amazing.
Houses on a Hill
Gouache on Stonehenge cotton paper, 9” by 12” paper including 3/4 in white border #painting#watercolor#landscape
@mrcompletely you might love gouache. The big difference from acrylic is with gouache, you can’t keep adding layers forever. If it gets too thick, that’s bad because it will crack. If you use thin layers mixed with water, they will reactivate the under layers. So you still need more of a plan than with acrylic, but less of a plan than with watercolor. It behaves a little like something in between.
@gwenbeads sounds great. There's a whole type of painting that I keep trying to execute in acrylics but I think is more suited for gouache, something halfway towards illustration, with clean shape outlines and flat, relatively untextured matte color. For me at least acrylics work best with gestural, free, process driven paintings that emerge as they go
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