I’m trying out gouache for the first time this week- very interesting stuff to work with.
latest updates: gouache
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2010Mar 84
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2010Feb 4
tags: Brrrr | gouache | snow
More Snow – Gouache in a Watercolour Moleskine
It snowed again yesterday (Tuesday) morning and it was very sudden and heavy for a short period. The effect was to cover everything very quickly and I hope this post gets the idea across. This is the view, northwards, from my from garden looking over the hedge. One of my neighbour’s apple trees is just on the other side and, believe it or not, still has some “well ripened” apples attached to the branches. The distant trees are on Platt Hill which is on the other side of the Union Canal. Beyond this hill, a few miles away, lies Edinburgh Airport. The only time we get any noise from it is on days like this as frantic snow clearing gets underway. By evening the snow had stopped and had begun to thaw but more fell on Wednesday night and the temperatures plummeted causing much ice on the roads
This is the first time I have used gouache and find it slightly different from acrylic – the main difference being it is not water resistant. It looks as if it can be made thinner and seems to cover large areas more uniformly. I might try combining this with other stuff in the future.
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2010Jan 6
tags: botanical | buttercup | floral | Flower | gouache | ink | marigold | regular moleskine | sketch
Ink, gouache, and colored pencils in my small moleskine. It was a relaxing sketching day–hot tea, Rachmaninov Concerto No. 3, and sweet incense burning while I worked. These are Marsh Marigolds: a member of the buttercup family.
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2010Jan 6
tags: asian | B&W | gouache | ink | japan | Kimono | parasol | red
Japan-esque
Part of my “a drawing a day” project for the long days of summer and the second spread on my shiny first Moleskine. Rotring’s rapidographs and gouache paint. -
2010Jan 4
tags: botanical | chicory | gouache | ink | nature | regular moleskine
Ink and gouache in my small regular moleskine. Love the clear blue of this weed-flower.
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2009Dec 30
tags: gouache | scape | view | watercolour | Window
A window with a view.
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2009Oct 15
tags: body | earth | gouache | hat | sky | spidernet | tempera | temple
Untitled – tempera/gouache
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2009Oct 2
tags: gouache | signal to noise | sos | tempera | temple
Sending out an SOS… An imaginary temple with high signal to noise ratio.
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2009Jul 29
tags: darwin | Evolution | gouache | mandrill | micron pen | monkey
Mandrill and associated skull from my Darwin primate series.
Micron pen and gouache in a Moleskine sketchbook. -
2009Jul 26
tags: ape | bonobo | Evolution | gouache | moleskine | Pen
The bonobo is our closest living relative and very different from chimpanzees. Bonobos are known as the sexy ape due to their propensity to make love not war. They have even been found to learn and use grammar and syntax equivalent to a 5 year old child. This is the last of the apes in my Darwin series, but not the last primate.
