hello friends how are you :D so i'm finally doing the thing that i've been meaning to do
for a while now which is to make a separate palette out of my hemi gouache set. BUT mine
were dry as butt crack so i had to wet them down first and then put them away for about a day...
okay maybe like three days, i totally forgot that i was even making this video but once i remembered
it was a time to individually re-wet them! and by that it just means you had to mix them all
individually. it was really satisfying but also really time-consuming and kind of annoying...
i hope that you enjoyed that little montage um but let's just move on to the actual fun stuff, shall
we? so i went on everybody's favorites capitalist overlord platform [amazon] and i ordered the
cheapest palette that i could find. i think it was like eleven dollars and then i had a five
dollar coupon so it was like six dollars in total, fantastic, i love supporting capitalism hehe :'(
and then it was time to move all of the paint into the new palette. i loved this process even though
it took longer than the first half, that's okay. um, i will say that even though the plastic is
actually very sturdy & there's a lot of wells [i honestly really like the palette!], the problem is
that when the paints dried, they cracked, and then little pieces of them started to fall out so i'm
still trying to figure out how to make that not happen lol. but that is a problem for another day!
while i make you guys watch all of the transferring, and i do make you guys
watch all of it um because i think it's worthy of your attention, it's just so satisfying,
and i was really happy filming it, but i wanted to talk about why i really wanted
to make a separate palette out of these. so a while back i took a a class, um a workshop,
by sarah van dogen... dongen? i will link her instagram below! she has a really cool
illustration style and she uses her palette in a really interesting way, she just has dry
gouache and she uses it quite watered down and she kind of mixes everything really quickly,
so i took inspiration from that and i wanted to build my own palette! she has very limited colors
and i was going to do that too but i couldn't help myself... i kind of just wanted to have all of the
options so i guess i'm just never going to learn color theory... that's fine, i'm fine (: iTs FiNe
but yeah, more so than her illustration style i was just
really mesmerized by how quickly she works with gouache um because normally, you know,
i gotta take this giant clunky set out and if you work with gouache a little bit more creamy
and you get a little bit more like opaque coverage, you really have to
take the time to like get the colors out and mix them well, into the right consistency, and...
i just don't want to do that most of the time.
i have issues like when it comes to getting stuff done, a lot of self-made barriers let's say,
and so when i saw the way that she used gouache i was like oh my god i could do that! and a lot of
like the annoyance that i feel with gouache at the moment would kind of be eliminated?
and i would still have the big set around for when i wanted to use them in a more creamy
consistency way... that's like a weird way to say that but i think you know what i mean :)?
anyways, like i mentioned, i transferred all of the colors on the set onto the new palette because
i have no self-control um except for the bLaCk, i think i forgot the black, but it's okay i added
in later. and then i kept the pastels separate because they were already mixed with white and so
i kind of thought that would be cool to put them in these tiny little wells.
and then the other thing that i did was i have this W&N
designer gouache and so i put some in the little palette and then also on a couple of
random spots in the palette too just to be able to mix with the colors as i go,
but definitely keep the greens [blues] and the warms separate. anyways the palette ended up
looking so nice, you have no idea how irrationally proud of it i was as if i really did something.
but it was time to let them rest for about a day, i didn't want them to be wet when i used them,
and now i'm going to make my own illustration inspired by the illustrations made by Sarah :D
so sarah has this really interesting like simplified but um very stylized style,
um very like children's book-esque. she draws a lot of her surroundings and herself in those
surroundings, um and she kind of works with flat layers of gouache at first and then she will add
more details with pencil crayons, pasta pens etc etc. (um i watched her domestic of course
on this as well). so i decided to just draw myself at my table and just like draw little
elements in my room, and of course i added plants where there were no plants, and i
messed around with the colors... and the thing about her style is that colors are very important
and i don't really know what i'm doing with colors yet, um it almost feels like
i'm never gonna learn, like damn, why is this... why is color theory so hard? T_T
but anyways i tried my best, i can't say i love it, there's just something that was off,
maybe i shouldn't have gone with a dark floor? i'm not really sure, but i just powered through and
then came in with pencils and just kind of added details and patterns and texture wherever i could,
i don't really know what i was doing but it was really fun and i think for a first attempt
it was really good! i really liked it :)
all right friends this is the finished product, what do you think? i think it ended up looking
very lively and although something feels off it's cute i like, it it was fun!
um yes i did misspell clutter, you can find me... and fight me about it LOL >:)
anyways okay i'm gonna go thank you for watching, please give me a like if you
want to support me and feed the algorithm gods, and i will see you next time byeeee!!