Quick tip 377!!! Wow! I am so thankful of your persistence and patience; every Wednesday your quick tips comes out. Always full of new and very informative topic. You are an excellent teacher. Thank you!
That little grey card with the hole in the middle is the beginning of magic for my understanding! Thank you for your patient and thorough explanation ... I know as it flows over my brain that i need to listen again cuz my inner workings grow along at a slower pace than your beautiful, expert delivery! Thank you thank you thank you! Those colors on your paper look so beautiful to me! Like the beginning of a lovely abstract offering 😳 i am excited to do a color study of my own to see what the outcome will be 😏🧐🤓🤗😄💕💃taaadaaah! Thank you, my dear Diane! 💕💕💕
This was SO helpful, Dianne, I've been too timid to get out there and try it much, but now I'm anxious to give it a go. Thank you for always sharing the mental reasoning that went along with the demonstration.
Thank you Dianne for sharing this tip with us!.. I have gouache but never tried it.. I think after watching this, I will give it a try.... You are too kind & a true friend of every beginners and advanced painters too! Each & every single tip which you have given so far, I have learned something new!! Thank you,we all respect you & love you.. Take care..
Thanks, Robyn. I'm glad you checked in. After too many months, my response to your request for how to stay motivated after many rejections from shows will be posted on RU-vid on September 7. The downside of answering requests for our Tips is that, due to so many of them, my response is often very late appearing.
Dianne, EXCELLENT tip and I am so pleased you demonstrated with gouache. I have been dabbling with gouache and now feel able to go out and complete a few color studies to further my own knowledge. Thank you so much for your tips!
Karen, gouache dries rapidly on the palette. It's a good idea to keep handy a fine mist sprayer containing water, and give the gouache on the palette a periodic hit of spray.
Dianne, I'm still unclear re' the reason for doing a gouache color study when planning an oil painting. The gouache color study will yield darker mixtures than those we are planning for the eventual oil painting. (I don't have a problem with the lightening effects in planning a watercolor painting.) I hope you can clarify this for me so that I an finally utilize the set of gouache I bought long ago! Thank you very, very much.
Gouache is portable in a way oil is not. That makes it easier for me to keep it ready to go out the door and easier to grab for color studies when I am on location. I have learned to compensate for any changes that happen during drying. In fact, it dries so fast, I can compensate on location.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Do I understand this to mean that after you work out the mixture to your satisfaction you then add white because it has darkened? Or does this necessitate further changes, once again (saturation or hue?) Are there some artists who create a lighter mixture to begin with? Thank you very much for your claification.
Thank you Dianne, this will help me a lot to overcome my shyness to paint in public area (I hope), to get a better understanding of colors then from just a photograph. I bought myself a pocketbos of gouache which I will try with the recommended synthetic philbert but I still need to buy the paper to paint on. What is that bloc that you are using? It is nice small so easy to carry.
Doppy Hoppy, gouache works fine in a good quality sketch book which is what I'm using in the tip. My favorite is the Reflexions Aqua spiral sketchbook by Creative Mark. For gouache paintings, my favorite paper is Fluid Watercolor paper by Speedball, although any good quality smooth surface will work.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Oh thats nice, it is sold in the netherlands too so easy peasy to get it. Thanks, I didn't have suitable paper for gouache yet.
Hi Dianne....today I tried applied Dorlands wax one coat over my blue background...then applied another colour yellow...I noticed that however I rubbed the yellow with water I didn't smudge with blue and wax accepted gouache as it is...it's beautiful and useful...that means I could apply a layer of gouache without messing up with underneath layer? Is this real? Please comment. I usually use Dorlands wax for final varnish of my watercolour and Gouache.
Sujanith, some 40 or 50 years ago, abstract painter Paul Cheli - www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Chelko/11266800/Paul_Chelko.aspx used a similar method of alternation a wax medium with water-based paint. Water and wax are not mixable, so when layered in the way you describe, I don't know how archival the results are. Chelko's works from that period are rare. I've not followed up to see how they've held up over time, but you might Google his name to see his works done in the 1970's.
Dear Dianne. Considering the value changes in gouash is it not better to use goash white alongwith water colors. Is it possible at all? The purpose is only taking color notes plain air.
Reza, since gouache is an opaque watercolor, it can be used interchangeably with watercolor, but the character of the two is different. Watercolor used without what paint, but using the white paper for achieving lights produces a character that gouache with white cannot give. Yet gouache has potential watercolor cannot give. It shouldn't be discounted because some of the colors dry a bit darker. The artist learns to adjust for that. I recommend you check out James Gurney on RU-vid. He is a master of gouache, and mixed media painting. He doesn't hesitate to use the two together, giving each a chance to show its potential.
Hi Dianne. What do you do with your pallet and left over paints after you finish painting. Do you reuse the same dried paints within the pallet by just adding water? Thanks.
Hi I’m a bit perplexed why you say your phthalocyanine is a warm blue compared to ultramarine? I thought it was heading toward green making it cool?? Hope you can help x
Arethea, Damien is correct. There is a perpetual argument among some artists who teach about whether red or yellow is the warmer color. Based upon the original reason for using the terms "warm" and "cool", and after delving deeply over the years into the study of color, my position is that yellow is warmer than red. Because this is the position I take, since phthalo blue leans towards green which contains yellow, I see it as warmer than ultramarine blue which leans towards violet which contains red.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thank you so much for clarifying this! I also perceive yellow as the warmer and have really struggled to accept this isn’t the case !
Pam, saturation is the purest possible hue within any color. As a general rule, the colors we see on the standard color wheel show the most saturated version of the individual colors. Any hue can be desaturated by adding to it its complement or another hue that contains that complement.
Gouache is basically opaque watercolour made with gum arabic and can be reactivated after drying. WS oils are oil paints but made from oil that has been modified to allow them to dissolve in water when wet, but they dry like regular oils
