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Painting with Gouache Part One.

4/10/2022

 
an illustrated postcard by Jo Brown Illustrator, with blobs of paint on it and a hand holding a brush mixing paint, with lots of artists paint tubes around it
Gouache artwork of owls by Jo Brown, Illustrator
Gouache artwork of three bears by Jo Brown, Illustrator
Gouache artwork of tigers by Jo Brown, Illustrator
Painting with Gouache- my method.

Gouache is a thick opaque watercolour paint used by artists and designers. (there is also acrylic gouache, but I will talk about that in a different post, it is great, but it acts differently and you don't want to mix them together)
Gouache dries to a flat opaque matte finish (if you want it to) and you can overpaint it.
If you are careful the new colour won't lift off/mix with the underneath one- great for someone like me who makes mistakes/ changes their mind…
You can paint light colours over dark colours too, which is very useful.
Gouache comes in tubes, or sometimes jars, and you just squeeze a small amount out on to a palette or plate, or my favourite, a shiny postcard- I'll tell you why later.

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