I just recently started experimenting with acrylic gouache. A tip I saw in a video (don't remember whose!) is to wet a paper towel and squeeze it out. Lay it in your tray, then lay a piece of baking parchment paper on top. This works really well as a homemade stay wet palette. I tried the same thing with palette paper instead, but i found that didn't work as well. I think James Gurney puts the paint directly on the damp paper towel, but I really liked how the parchment paper worked. Anyway, those sets look stunning, and your color choices for you paintings - branching out from your usual colors, and I am SO HERE FOR IT! Absolutely gorgeous!
You can peel acrylic gouache when it’s dried off flat surfaces, so using things like a ceramic palette with it is no issue! And welcome back! I was definitely surprised to see this video up!
A nice review of the two sets , side by side, the colors are awesome. I think ultimately you could combine the two and it would last at some extent, later on you would probably find things such as layers exfoliate, because acryla will be impermeable once it dries, while normal gouache will be permeable. Thank you for review, pretty hair lady 😊😊
I have two of their Iridori sets and a standard set of twelve gouache. To me, a lot of the pigments they use doesn't justify the price of the paint that I'll only use in sketchbooks. The only acrylic gouache I have is Turner and I do like it. Sometimes, if I mess up something I'm working on, I'll paint over it with acrylic gouache (as a background), then paint over that with regular gouache. I really enjoy doing that. ❤
Thanks for being back and sharing your experience with us. I use gouache and did order some acrylic gouache last week. It’s still in the mail. So can’t tell what I would prefer.
I really enjoyed this video. I prefer regular gouache over acrylic gouache, because I found the acrylic gouache just dries too fast for me. The first gouache I ever bought was about a year ago, I bought a set of the Turner acryla gouache. I chose the Turner acryla gouache after doing a lot of research because it was fairly inexpensive for an artist quality gouache. I started out with acrylic gouache, because, like you said in the video, it was a lot less expensive than regular gouache. And I wanted to make sure that if I didn't like painting with gouache, or I wasn't good at it, I would know that the problem wasn't that I was using cheap quality paints.
Love the paintings and how you did your swatches! Would you recommend a couple of brush brands/ sizes to use with gouache? I’m wondering if my issue with painting with gouache is related to softness of the brushes I’m using - well besides skill lol. Thank you.
This video was really helpful. Besides just starting to experiment with gouache and acrylic gouache, I am really new to painting in general. Lol! I learned a lot. Thank you so much! By the way, your paintings are lovely especially the waterfall.
My preference is for regular gouache, but I think that's mainly because I'm not super comfortable with acrylics in general. I have a small set of Holbein gouache, though, and haven't had the easiest time using it, so maybe my preference is neither. 🤣🤷
Oh no Linda! Which brand was it? If it’s outside the return window, it may be worth checking out Facebook groups / art memberships / eBay to swap or sell it (one man’s trash is another man’s treasure) x x
if I'm spending that kind of money, I'd want my paint to be lightfast because why would I get this set when I can get the jelly gouache set for a fraction of the price? it seems crazy that a professional brand would sell a set that contains so many paints with pigments that aren't lightfast 🫠 my fave gouache is definitely winsor and newton but I use daniel smith as well since they have pigments that w&n doesn't include in their gouache line and vice versa. I've tried mgraham when a site was getting rid of their stock and bought them on a steep discount and they are terrible and would not recommend. I also have the 36 set of the gouache watercolor hybrid paints from mission gold that I really need to play with more and test out but like holbein, they are multi pigment blends and have a lot of non lightfast pigments in them (i bought it before I knew everything I know now about pigments and lightfastness 💀) /tangent
Curating your own set with their individual tubes would be the way to go with Holbein and you could definitely do it! When I started to paint with gouache (also W&N) I learned it was a medium used by graphic artists and designers who photographed their work and so lightfastness in the original wasn’t an issue. But that’s not to say if you want to sell your originals then you can’t find lightfast gouache. It’s out there. I agree too that Daniel Smith is definitely selling mostly lightfast gouache tubes.
