Saturday, December 31, 2011

2 of 120


Picture number two. I still hate the gouaches, but I figured I could at least use them all up, now that I bought them. After all, who is keeping me from painting another 120 paintings in oils afterwards, right?

The brushes are the most annoying part. I want to go back to my synthetic brushes :(, yet for now I shall continue with them.

Friday, December 30, 2011

1 of 120


I decided that I'll do these paintings using gouache as it is much easier to handle and clean than oil or acrylic colors. Also a former art teacher suggested to me that if I wanted to learn more about painting I need to paint a couple of pictures using larger brushes.

Well, after the first painting I can already state that I almost regret my decision to use gouache and large bristle brushes. I wanted to focus on values, but gouache fools you, drying about at least one value step lighter than it looks like when being wet. I really do want to get back to oils.

 Those large brushes aren't any better and keep annoying me, too. I cannot get any detail right with them.