Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Painting with gouache

Watercolor is the medium I use most often for my illustrated journals and for painting "en plein air" -- that is, painting outdoors -- but often I want to paint in a less delicate, more robust style. Lately, what does that for me is gouache, an opaque watercolor. Here's a little scene along Minnesota's Gunflint Trail, created in gouache on museum board.

2 comments:

Sending Pages Out to Dry said...

I'm so glad you're blogging, Marilynn. I love looking at your sketches and am always inspired by them to go and do likewise. looking forward to more blogs and to the next sketch crawl. Alicia

Helen DeRamus said...

I too am glad you are blogging and look forward to your thoughts and images.