Once a year, ABQ crushes the Balloon Fiesta. A week long festival where the lines to get in the park create a river of red brake lights at 5 in the morning. The colors from over 500 ballons in the sky is truly worth seeing in person. This little piece done in acrylic gouache was fun to paint
Mass Ascension I | Acrylic Gouache on Paper
I'm trying to find a suitable long term way to store a set of paintings I did this year. The only products used were Holbein guache and Holbein watercolors. I am currently storing them in a Sooez archival display book in individual plastic sheets. I bought glassine paper, but have found mixed reviews about using this for guache... This is my first professional set of paintings and I put my heart and soul into them so I just want to make sure I'm doing this right. Any and all advice is appreciated for this newbie 💖🙏🏻
I'm including a few of my favorites as a "tax" for your advice. It was for a children's book about animal facts.
Same image, three very different palettes.
Im new to using gouache and for now only used dried, but would love some advices! The drawing is from imagination, this goblin with red eyes likes to steal red things and make a mess. He might be in your garage right now.
RBY palette
Acrylic gouache (Cad red med, ultramarine blue, cad yellow med, titanium white and burnt umber)
Critique welcome!
New Mexico rock formations, three colors plus white
A quick study of rock formations in a remote area west of the Very Large Array in New Mexico. The geometry of the exposed rock caught my attention, particularly the changes in color across the sunlit faces and shadows.
I used three colors plus white. The purpose was to recalibrate my color sense by working with a constrained palette and making more deliberate mixing decisions.
Acrylic Gouache on Paper
My second gouache painting. I really like how it turned out. Tried out some funny brush strokes and techniques to make the grass and foliage.