I'm biased too. I started painting with acrylic then I switched to watercolor and discovered gouache which is the best of both worlds. It's such a great complement to watercolor and of course it's beautiful by itself. I still have plenty of acrylic that I will finish using but because of the "more plastic" impact, I am not buying any anymore... but lots of gouache 😀
Excellent information. Thank you! I converted from acrylics to gouache a few months ago. I'll admit tho that acrylic gouache is so much easier for me to use than regular gouache. But I think when my stash is gone, I'll just use a matte medium with my heavy body stuff (which I have quite a bit of) when I am in the mood for acrylics. You are right in that nothing beats that matte, velvety feel of traditional gouache! I didn't realize that gouache is more environmentally friendly. I did know that there are a lot of plastics in acrylic paint and that I couldn't just dump my rinse water down the drain. Probably shouldn't with gouache either, depending on where your outflow goes. We have a septic system and aren't hooked up to the local sanitary sewer which goes to a treatment plant before it is discharged. I try to dump it outside in the yard. Soil is a great filter. But there are occasions that I do dump my rinse water down the drain. I just try to minimize it. At any rate, I guess I am not a total convert because as I am doing my gouache studies (you have some awesome tutorials!), I am often thinking that this would be so much easier with acyrlics...haha...but I am here for the gouache!
Tempera is also a great medium, it feels like gouache (texture, finish, opacity, can be used heavily diluted for washes and glazes) and behaves like acrylic (dries fast, can’t be reactivated)
The green aspects of gouache are enough to convince me. I painted with acrylic many years , hated the clean up , ruined clothes etc. I switched to oil pastel which I love but eventually removed the cadmiums and cobalts from my palette. Gouache seems a perfect fit for personal health, my cats , the environment. Now I must learn to paint with it.
I think both of these problems are due to consistency. If you don't have enough paint you can't blend properly, if you paint is too liquid you will lift up the previous layer.
Bonjour et merci pour cette chouette vidéo (et beaucoup d'autres que j'ai déjà visionnées) 🙂 Je me permets de commenter en français, parce que si je comprends assez bien l'anglais, le vôtre encore plus, j'ai beaucoup plus de mal à le parler ou à l'écrire. Je pratique la gouache depuis peut-être un an et j'ai à peu de chose près le même avis que vous à son sujet, et j'aime ce medium de plus en plus au fur et à mesure que je l’apprivoise, mais je voulais tout de même émettre quelques réserves au sujet de sa non-toxicité. Évidemment, la gouache est infiniment moins toxique que d'autres types de peinture, en particulier celle à l'huile qui nécessite un certain nombre de solvants et de siccatifs, mais elle n'est pas absolument non-toxique. La toxicité varie selon le type de pigment qui est employé. Certains sont composés de métaux plutôt néfastes et même si on se passe aisément aujourd'hui du plomb ou du cadmium, il reste le cobalt, le titane, le zinc ou le chrome par exemple qui ne sont pas toujours anodins. D'autres pigments sont organiques, donc potentiellement assimilables par l'organisme aussi. Je ne suis pas spécialiste, loin de là, mais peu de peintures sont absolument non-toxiques, et celles destinées aux enfants, si elles sont garanties non-toxiques, ne sont pas pour autant très comestibles. Ne buvez-pas l'eau du récipient qui vous sert à rincer vos pinceaux ! J'ai déjà failli le faire quelques fois par inattention... Protégez bien votre chat, il a de petits organes délicats comme les reins :-) J'ai de la chance avec le mien, il n'aime à peu près que les croquettes, les petits animaux qu'il chasse, et l'eau croupie qu'il trouve dehors. Quand je lui fais sentir autre chose, comme de la peinture ou du fusain (il parait que certains chats adorent ça) il me regarde d'un drôle d'air interrogateur et presque outré ! Ou alors il comprend qu'il s'agit d'un nouvel instrument pour les caresses... Merci encore une fois pour vos vidéos que je continuerai à regarder avec grand plaisir 🙂
Merci pour votre commentaire. J'ajouterais que la quantité de métaux toxiques éventuels est tellement infime que le risque pour la santé humaine est voisin de zéro, sauf à avaler une douzaine de tubes de peintures d'affilée !
@@CecileYadro Exactly. There's always one commenter who is alarmed by the potential toxicity. I see so many youtube artists saying "I don't want toxic pigments anywhere near me" and then get rid of all their cadmium colours. My answer is always: don't eat your paint, wash your hands and by the time you have rinsed it off your palette it is so dilute it is irrelevant to the environment. The industrial plants where pigments are manufactured absolutely cannot and should not discharge effluent into the environment, but the lone artist using tiny amounts (think about how long a tube of gouache lasts you, how much is on your paper and the tiny amount you wash away) is not going to cause harm.
My cat, who has watched me paint countless paintings for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS, decided to waddle up to me the one night while I was painting and just lick up a fat glob of paint off my palette💀 I too was very relieved that it was gouache and a non toxic pigment to boot. I still washed her mouth out just to be extra careful and I’ve been watching her since then and she’s 100% okay❤ But man I couldn’t believe my eyes when it happened😭
Acrylic paints annoyed me so much in college when I took art I didn't like how quickly they dried, that you couldn't change things on the fly and how they could ruined your brush and palette I preferred oils and watercolor and later gouache.
Interesting to hear. I'm an oil painter, but looking for something to use for quick works/ nontoxic around my baby. I dislike acrylic dry time, and dislike water color transparency. Gauche may be the perfect middle ground for me
lolol and i've been playing with acrylic gouache lolol marketing got me , i guess , lol .. but i actually am enjoying it lol my love for traditional gouache is endless , though 😊😊❤️❤️norakag
