Tag Archives: Gouache
30-in-30 Challenge – Day 18
Today’s painting should probably be titled “fun with a palette knife” instead of the non-name I’ve given it. I picked up a cheap plastic palette knife (it came with the new plastic palette I bought) and decided that another venture into painting with gouache was needed. I thought to try some collage as well but […]
Continue reading30-in-30 Challenge – Day 13
Ah, unlucky number 13. Seems fitting for today’s piece. The informal theme I choose for this challenge was growth because I wanted to push myself into trying new things and yes, growing my skills somewhat. This is one of those “push it and see what happens” pieces and it’s just not working for me as […]
Continue reading30-in-30 Challenge – Day 3
I’m a bit late in getting this up, but considering I just finished, it’s right on time. Continuing the theme of “Growth” I did something the same and something different. The same was laying down random layers of gouache and then using plastic and paper towels bits to texture the paint as it dried. I […]
Continue reading30-in-30 Challenge – Day 2
While waiting for my day 1 painting to dry, I went ahead and started on day 2’s painting. I changed my direction a bit because while poking through my mugs holding brushes, pens and pencils, I found my inking nibs. Well, they’re probably more like calligraphy pens, but whatever. I’d gotten my yellow ink out […]
Continue reading30 paintings in 30 days!
Yikes! After being reminded about Leslie Saeta’s 30-in-30 challenge which started today, I signed up and got started. I did my first 30-in-30 back in October when I participated in Inktober and enjoyed that quite a bit. I’m hoping I can push myself more to get 2015 started off on a good foot. I don’t […]
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