thank you for the informative video! i purchased a set of turner acryl gouache because the color palette was gorgeous. i didn’t know what acryl gouache was.
BTW on the subject of working with acrylic paint. Because acrylic paint drys fast, you use a wet palette with them. Simply place a soaking wet paper towel on your plate and a wax paper (Butterbrotpapier) on top, and the moisture keeps your paint on the palette from drying too fast. Also keep a spray bottle with fine mist next to the palette to mist the paint if it develops a skin and starts to dry.
Great job! This is my fave type of paint right now. In US they sell this at all stores in NYC. It's called Turner Acryl Goache and I LOVE how it can be used to seal off a layer in your picture then you can watercolor over/ around it
Such an informative and helpful video!! so helpful to anyone who doesn’t know the difference between gouache and acryla gouache and how they behave! The comparison was awesome! 💕 The Turner acryl gouache still looks nice but I can see the Holbein is more pigmented! Thank you Wera for making and sharing with us this review 💕
Liebe wera, das ist super informativ, was es da für unterschiede bei den einzelnen gouache-arten gibt. Ich wusste das gar nicht. Ich habe von shinhan hybrigfarben die du sowohl als watercolors als auch als gouache verwenden kannst - je nach menge des wassers. Die sind auch toll und außergewöhnlich, sie sind auch etwas hochpreisiger, aber sehr empfehlenswert. Das motiv ist ja kultig. Coole idee super umgesetzt. Vielen dank 😊. Btw - ihr habt nen tollen holzboden zuhaus 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼😊🖤
Liebe Gurgi, da der Binder immer noch Polymere sind, kannst du die Wassermenge nur mit Papier beliebig verwenden. Auf der Leinwand musst du darauf achten, dass du nicht zuviel Wasser verwendest und für Lasuren besser ein Acrylmedium nutzen statt Wasser. Bei zuviel Wasser entsteht eine Unterbindung der Polymere und die Farben verlieren ihre Haftung. Das ist bei saugfähigen Untergrund kein Problem, weil die Farbe in die Faser einsinkt.
This was so interesting and a great video!!! I used to use gouache a lot and now I feel I want to re-visit it!!! The Holbein looked the best to me, keep up the amazing work!! :D :D
Get a wet palette.... they are absolutely invaluable when using acrylic gouache. It allows you to use this medium with zero aggravation of it drying out super fast. You can keep your paints on the wet palette allllll day and they won't dry out.
Thanks for the advice! I was thinking to set a DYI wet palette in a normal plastic container, like Tupperware. Or maybe you have a wet palette that you'd recommend buying?
Thanks for being here! ^^ It might be interesting to use acrylic gouache for architecture related paintings, what do you think? I don't know of anyone doing this so far with this medium! Have you tried it before?
This was actually very helpful without useless information. I’m European too and various retailers just gave me the same look when I asked for acrylic gouache. Can I ask you where did you get the Acrylia ones?
Try Jacksonart.com in the UK. At least for a few more months they are in the European market and ordering is a breeze. www.utrechtart.com also offers Holbein Acrylic gouache and doesn't drop out of the European market. Gerstaecker.de has liquitex gouache and Peters-art.de has Vallejo acrylic gouache. However any heavy body acrylic paint will probably behave just as acrylic gouache since the binder is polymere based, so you may use Golden Acrylic heavy body open and get the same results.
Hey hey, thanks so much! I bought all my acrylic gouache via jacksonsart.com, but lately I got a great tip that there is a nice Spanish website that sells all Holbein paints too, Artemiranda www.artemiranda.com/painting-packs-sets/5
I love acylic gouache for being much more smooth. I think pure acrylic paint can be somewhat "rough" and I think it also dries much faster, so it needs faster work and maybe a proper wet palette.
So interesting! I always wonder if there was a huge difference between the two Acryla Gouache brands. I've only just started using it. Thanks for the advice.
Yes, Holbein is fantastic. I think it is worth the price. But Turner is good enough too, and 2-3 times cheaper! Great for beginners. I haven't tried it yet, but there is this "retarder" medium which makes the paint worklable for longer. I'm considering buying it, trying out and making a review too. I'll check up your accounts!
Super Review, thank you for sharing ! Very nice painting, too ! My set of 24 of Turners Acryl Gouache arrived yesterday. I ordered it from Japan, because I am courious on that 'new' medium, but for me there's one question left. I am working with Acrylics as well as Gouache for years, but why should I use Acryl Gouache and not Matte Acrylics (i.e. Acrylic craft paint like Darwi, Nerchau or Marabu) . What is the real difference between these two mediums? Would be happy if you could answer this question. Have a nice Friday !
Thank you very much for answering, Wera ! The acrylic paints I mentioned are craft paints, regarded as richly opaque and drying to a very matte finish. They are extremely lightfast and highly pigmented (I heard of them first time from the great Amy Lee (Paris, gorgeous Portraits of celebreties, maybe you know her), who uses craft paints mainly on canvas. So I tried to compare Acryla with my craft paints after writing this comment, and no, theres no difference between Acryla and Craft Acrylic paint. Beim nächsten Mal können wir ruhig deutsch schreiben :-) Alles Liebe und dir eine schöne Woche !!
I have a question--I noticed there aren't any brush lines in your art. Am I just not using enough water? Sometimes it seems like I use too much because I can see white through the paper. I'm using Turner Acryla Gouache.
Heyooo, most often you see brush lines with darker colors, they tend to get more streaky. And about the water, yes, I would rather use very little. Turner gouache is good, Holbein tends to be a bit more creamy.
Thanks for the informative video! I never knew there were two kinds of gouache! I've been wanting Holbein paints for such a long time! Too bad that it's hard to come by in Europe :(((
Shop and Sketch Thanks for the comment! I want to make a video about my recent art haul and give some tips on how to get Holbein etc in Europe. Would that ne interesting for you?
Did you mix the flesh tone? Just played around with the set of Holbein I recently got and felt very limited trying to miss small quantities of flesh tone that would all match. I think I need to get a tube of their flesh tone
Yes, absolutely - I think so far I have really mixed it all :D I used together acylics plus the acrylic gouache and even normal gouache on top of that. Indeed, the acrylic gouache is SUPER similar to the acrylic paint, however, I will underline it again - it just FEELS different. It is more smooth, creamy, for me it is a whole new experience of putting paint onto paper or canvas. Acrylic paint feels more "rough", less creamy, very hard - kinda like plastic, which it is btw.
@@BakerImageGroup I heard they're very very good quality. Till now I used different acrylic paints, mainly Amsterdam and Rico, and Lukas. Somehow with the acrylics I buy the cheapest. Whereas with gouache I tend to but more expensive tubes. Liquitex are said to have supreme coverage powers :)
I found the reverse between Holbein and turner, the turner was easier to kind of reactivate or keep activated on the palate and the holbein did what you show the turner to do. Perhaps it has more to do with the age of the batch of paints than the brand. Anyone who knows I’d be interested to know. Thanks.
i actually use turner's acrylic gouache paint in my school and i was also soo used to watercolor to the point i thought this type of paint wouldnt dry out but it does 😅😂
That is the one I use Holbein, is more pigmented. Thank you for the tutorial . Also if you want the acrylic paint stay wet longer you can use retarded I use the one by Golden.
Thanks so much for sharing! I mainly use acrylic paints to paint much bigger canvases, like 50cm and bigger, cos acryla gouache comes in those tiny tubes he hee.
I personally think it’s not weak and I like it! I like that it’s cheaper too :)))) I think some of the nicest “normal” gouache paints I used was a set from Carandache
@@So_salty Thete was this pan set of something like 12 colors, and the pans had a square shape. All the colors were in this metal container that you could close, like a palette.
Looking at the ingredients, it seems acrylic gouache isn't really a gouache, it's an acrylic paint with the matte finish of a gouache. It's different from matte acrylics in the sense that it's supposed to be fully matte and it's supposed to be more pigmented
That's a good point! Indeed, good observations. Depends on the brand, but for me for instance the Holbein gouache has quite a "gouachy" texture feeling ^^
@@WeronikaSalach it's supposed to have that. You'll notice though, that unlike gouache, it can't be reactivated with water once dry because of the glue like binders found in acrylic.
I haven't compared yet Golden acrylic open and acrylic gouache, but my guess is that they are pretty much the same. Since it is basically a heavy body acrylic paint with an extended working time, which is what it says on the golden acrylic open paint. BTW for Europe for the time being the best source for acrylic "gouache" is jacksonart.com based in the UK and as such with Brexit probably in a few month time a pain in the butt to order from. But then Liquitex started to name one of their acrylic paints gouache and Gerstaecker.de has that one on stock and peters-art.de offers acrylic gouache from the brand Vallejo.
Thanks for sharing! Yup, I used to order on jacksonsart, I even have a video here somewhere on RU-vid showing my art haul from that shop :) And I also used to order via Gerstaecker and Kunstpark.de, here in Germany. Great tips, thanks! Now I am actually wondering if I should buy the "normal" Arteza gouache. I have been drawing so much digitally, and it's actually so relaxing to work with real paints
@@WeronikaSalach Since Russian brands are currently out of the question, I guess Arteza is a valid cheap alternative. I prefer artist grade from big brands and stick to basic colors in the beginning until I know whether I like it. Then I can start extending the range little by little with all the colors I like or need. The higher pigmentation in artist grade products usually pays off. When you look at student grade and artist grade side by side, you see the difference.
@@silkeschumann7261 I think it is American. Not sure why you were referring to Russian brand :) I don't think I know any Russian gouache brand. I just remember there were some Russian watercolors, White Nights
@@WeronikaSalach No, Arteza is a US company. Russian brands just provide artist grade for an affordable prize, or rather did since they are now off limits. Sorry, for being too cryptic.
Hellooooo Brittany! I was tired of taping the paper onto a surface, so I decided to buy a thicker paper sketchbook, on a spiral side. I bought even a second, bigger one, I like it a lot especially for gouache. It's a 224g/m2 Canson mixed media sketchbook, www.idee-shop.com/canson-skizzenbuch-mix-media
HI Wera ~ Lovely work, thanks greetings from Canada! where it is also difficult/impossible to find much of the Holbein product line in local stores and must order online from Japan ~ coming from acrylics, I was so impressed with Acryla Goauche I started using the HWC tube watercolors they are known for and fell in love with them instagram.com/pete_dako/ similarily I had put the acyla gouache on the backburner while I focused on the new (to me) watercolor medium ~now I'm keen to start using the Acryla Goauche more QUESTIONS: 1- Can we put watercolor on top of the holbein acryl agouache? …talking about layers water based media - but not sure which media (Watercolor, Acryla Gouache and acrylic) or how important the order of those layers is? 2 - Do you find you lose a lot of control with the acryla vs. watercolor or ink on the brush? Im not sure if it's the paint or my crappier brushes, and finally (related) #3-are you using good sable brushes with acryla, ie is it possible to not destroy them? I bought some of that masters soap but very concerned about how terrible the plastic paint is on the brush
Thanks for sharing Pete! I must have missed this comment, my apologies! 1. I wouldn't put watercolor on top of gouache, but it all depends how you use your gouache in the first place - normally I like to layer my gouache thicker, but some artists dilute their gouache with more water, which makes it behave like watercolor. So if used like that, then yes, the order then doesn't matter and you can mix using both media. But if you're using the acrylic gouache (which is thicker and more like acrylic paint), or if you lay your gouache in general thicker, then watercolor should come first, as a background, and gouache on top of it. 2. It is sometimes hard indeed to get more precision with gouache, so one way around it is not to use brushes bigger than size 2, and to only use bigger brushes for bigger or background elements. I see many artists even use very tiny brushes for more control like 0 or 00. 3. I never use good brushes with acryla or any acrylic paint - always the cheapest synthetic brushes because they will get destroyed with time. The nice sable brushes only with watercolor. Again, so sorry for my late reply! I hope you can read my answers, oh myyyy 3 years later ayyyyy :(
Dipping your paintbrush into the tube or putting back in paint you have squeezed out will lead to mold and bacteria in your paints. While it may save paint now, in the long run it’s not worth it
Did you mix the flesh tone? Just played around with the set of Holbein I recently got and felt very limited trying to miss small quantities of flesh tone that would all match. I think I need to get a tube of their flesh tone
