Gouache in my sketchbook

  • sillyhatsonly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    These are great! I keep seeing gouache popping up everywhere, it’s like the universe is hinting that I should paint with gouache… but I just started learning watercolor! Why must there be so many tasty media?!!!

    • atomicorange@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I started in watercolor, and spent so much effort trying to get an opaque effect. A friend saw me struggling and said “why aren’t you using gouache?” It blew my mind 😅

      • speedingcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Watercolorist here also eyeing gouache! It seems like it’ll be freeing in some ways. You’re doing great in the switch

      • sillyhatsonly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I do love the transparency (and sometimes unpredictability) of watercolor which got me interested in the first place. There’s a vibrant and lively quality to gouache though, though, that really tugs at me. Maybe it’s the fact that you can go both opaque and transparent? Unfortunately money is tight and I can’t afford to splash out on decent gouache at the moment so I will focus on watercolor and squash the gouache for now.

    • atomicorange@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think I’m realizing something about myself from these comments. “Juicy succulents”, “nice butts”, my obsession with phallic / yonic carnivorous plants…

      Am I plantsexual? 😅

    • atomicorange@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Haha yes, Fluval Stratum is the best for carnivorous plants! Very low nutrient content and stays nice and moist. I don’t have a huge collection or I’d have to find something cheaper to use.

      These are actually heliamphora not nepenthes, I haven’t tried painting my nepenthes yet, maybe that will be next.