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| Gosh, gouache! | Dec 20, 2012 7:04 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Wooo color's still all over the place, but I'm learning loads of stuff. My gouache came today! Gouache, rather disappointingly pronounced just "gwash," is opaque watercolor, which is handy because it's nice and smooth to mix and lay down, and can cover up stuff beneath it, like acrylic or oil paint. You can do big bold color stuff with it, kinda like some of the two-tone color stuff I did a week or so ago when I was trying digital color. So I was excited to try a bit of it out, and I finally had a reason to in working on today's page, because the left side of the hand in the foreground came out kinda pebbly in the regular magenta watercolor I used there. I matched the shade with gouache and laid it in nice and smooth...well and it would have been smoother only I second-guessed myself and crosshatched over it with ink, then decided that was dumb and painted back over it with remixed gouache. Finally that was all set and I scanned it and discovered something--that gouache "Opera Pink" does not pick up well in my scanner!
For instance here's a photo of the little scrub test palette I've been making with regular watercolors (upper rows) and gouache (lower row), above a scan of the same piece of paper; keep an eye on what happens to the "Opera Pink," second from left at the bottom, in the scanned version:
Ack! Also the red and orange got too close together, but man, the pink just isn't picked up by my scanner at all. Weird. So I had to fix it in Photoshop for today's page...but I'll have to find some other pink/magenta/red/orange solutions if I'm gonna be able to use gouache. HM. I have Ultramarine (an intense deep blue) and yellow coming tomorrow, so hopefully I can mix up some suitable--and scannable--blends with them; otherwise I may have to chance ordering some alternate hues and hoping they scan okay. :P
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