Drawing and painting, to create a mindful path through my days.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Gouache bottle
More experimenting with gouache and mixing from a 3-color triad. Attempting glass here, I can really see the opaqueness of the medium instead of w/c's transparency.
Well done, Nita! You've really captured the reflective quality and the tranparency of the glass very well. With the 3 color triad, do you mean the three primary colors?
Thanks Evy! Yes, red/blue/yellow, but depending on the pigment they can be so variable in how they look and combine. I don't know the artist's words for off-shades :-)
glass looks difficult to pull off, and i think you did a great job! thanks for leaving me a nice comment about my illo and also for sharing your artistic journey with everyone. i appreciate when people share their tools of the trade. i will check out your site again.
PS my favorite so far is your rattan chair ink / watercolor. :-)
This is good, N! Since gouache is an opaque medium it is hard to use it to paint transparencies, unless you layer it a bit the way you do with oils.(Unfortunately, gouache is chalky, not 'wet' like oil paints, so the layering capacity is limited, too.) It is great for painting flat areas of color, though!
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Nita -- I really like this and all the recent entries on your blog. The warm and cool contrasts on this bottle are great!
Well done, Nita! You've really captured the reflective quality and the tranparency of the glass very well. With the 3 color triad, do you mean the three primary colors?
Thanks Evy! Yes, red/blue/yellow, but depending on the pigment they can be so variable in how they look and combine. I don't know the artist's words for off-shades :-)
glass looks difficult to pull off, and i think you did a great job! thanks for leaving me a nice comment about my illo and also for sharing your artistic journey with everyone. i appreciate when people share their tools of the trade. i will check out your site again.
PS my favorite so far is your rattan chair ink / watercolor. :-)
hi colors and shading are great, really
this is so nice! i have soooo much to learn...
-patty
edm group
This is good, N! Since gouache is an opaque medium it is hard to use it to paint transparencies, unless you layer it a bit the way you do with oils.(Unfortunately, gouache is chalky, not 'wet' like oil paints, so the layering capacity is limited, too.) It is great for painting flat areas of color, though!
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