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The second painting in my series of three, in three different media. Today this is in gouache. My previous post showed the photo from which these paintings are derived, as well as the pastel which I did the other day.
To date, I think this is one of the better paintings in gouache I have done. Two differences here: 1) I used hot pressed Arches paper rather than cold pressed. 2) I made sure I kept my paints moist by spritzing them, and covering them with saran wrap between painting sessions – keeping the paints moist made the job of painting much easier.
Smoother paper (hot pressed) allowed the paint to move more easily on the paper. Keeping the paint moist added to that experience. I really put effort into keeping the paint about the consistency of cream and spritzed the paints when they stopped looking glossy. The only area I rather wonder about is the right middle ground – I may want to redo that a bit.
Journey by Paper 