To gouache, or not to gouache? That is the question.

My personal style is watercolour and I particularly love the juxtaposition of bright luminous colours with deep dark blue hues. However, I often find it difficult to make the watercolour bright enough, or, dark enough for my taste. So I thought I'd give gouache a go. Though I love the delicate transparency of watercolour glazes, sometimes you just want to make a bright splash, and for that, you need gouache!

I’ve put together a simple painting project video here to show you both my process and the Himi gouache, a great set to begin with.

To start, I always spray my paints to “wake them up”, then use a wet brush to pick up the colour. I’ve also made myself a colour swatch card on 300gsm paper, because a dry colour block can look very different from the colour they’ll be in your artwork; and also because I wanted to see how gouache would react with salt and splashes of water.

If you love bold bright colours like I do, then gouache is definitely something to consider!

Happy joy chasing.

Monique x

To read the full blog post visit chasingthejoyartwork.com

In this project I used:

0.3 2B mechanical pencil

Himi gouache 24 colour palette

300gsm watercolour paper

Prismacolor pencils

Music:

Back To Normal by Judson Crane