Hello, and welcome back to my studio.
Well, I've been doing a bit of gouache
painting lately, as you perhaps have seen in previous videos.
But here's a tip as well that you may want to try out.
If you're not sure about gouache painting, and you don't want to buy a whole set
of gouache paints, well, do you have some water color paints around?
If you do, then this is a good tip for you.
Okay, so what are gouache paints?
Basically, it's just a pigment held
together with some binder, usually something like gum arabic, which,
incidentally, is pretty much what is used to make water color paint.
So if you've got a tube of water color
paint, you can use that instead of gouache paint.
Now that's the same color.
The big difference is the use of white paint.
The most important color you need in gouache is white paint.
So get a tube of titanium white in gouache.
And if you got some water color paints
in the primary colors, you can create gouache paintings that way.
I'll show you the comparison between two colors in gouache and a tube of water
color, and then compare them, and we'll see how that turns out.
Okay, let's have a look at a comparison between the gouache and water color paint.
Now, here I've got some ultramarine blue.
This is Winsor Newton Designer gouache.
Let's put a little bit of that down.
And here I've got some ultramarine deep.
This is Watercolor by Maimeri, Venezia.
Just to remind myself.
Gouache, water color, and some gouache titanium white.
I just want to see see if the water color can be used.
If you run out of ultramarine in gouache, can you use water color?
Well, let's try them. Just a little bit of water on the brush.
Let's take the gouache.
This is my waterproof tear-off palette, so it's going to do that.
Let's just put a bit of that on paper.
You can see quite transparent.
There's no white paint in it.
Let's just clean that brush off, get a bit of the water color.
Put that down.
Now, you can see the water color is a little more transparent, as you'd expect.
So definitely more pigment concentration in the the gouache.
So you could put a little more paint down for the water color.
But we're looking at whether
we can use the water color, in a pinch, if you don't have the gouache.
Right, let's get that gouache and some white into it.
And we're getting the light blue, opaque color as you'd expect.
And the most important reason we like to use gouache is to get that opaque color.
All right, let's get some titanium white in gouache, mix it with the water color.
And we also get that.
Now we have opaque.
Let's get a bit more saturation.
Remember, if we're using it as gouache.
So there we go.
Quite opaque.
And ...
Comparable, isn't it?
All because of the white gouache paint mixed in to the water color.
So there you go.
You can use your water color tubes instead of gouache.
So as you can see, there's not a great difference between the two.
A little bit more pigment strength in the gouache.
But once you add the white paint,
you can manipulate the colors and saturation and get a good result.
Maybe you're missing a color in gouache, but you've got it in a water color.
Well, use the water color.
Add it to the white paint and you are good to go.
So I hope that little tip just gives you a few more options.
Maybe you haven't considered.
If you find it difficult to get a certain
color in gouache, maybe your existing water colors will do the job just as well.
All right, try out some gouache painting.
And don't forget, there's a free course
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