Getting The Right Consistency | My Gouache Painting Journey

 Hello Friends and Crafters!

Today I have the second installment for "My Gouache Painting Journey". Each time I attempt a painting, I learn something new. And with painting the daisy background card shown here, I started to figure out the correct consistency to get my gouaches to for painting. I also decided to take a couple of my other paintings and turn them into cards.

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With this painting daisy background, I realized that I wasn't adding enough water because I was afraid of making the paints look too much like watercolours (which is something you can do with gouaches by adding lots of water). I figured out that you need to get the paint to a creamy consistency to get full opaque coverage without losing any vibrance. 

I also figured out, that when paintng a deeply coloured background like this, you should build the colour. Especially since I used white on top of the blue! I found that it was hard to get the white to be white without it picking up the blue underneath. I actually had to add a few layers of white to get a white daisy and even then you can still see some bleeding of the blue in the image below.

To make this into a card, I added some stitched embossing on the edges. I added a foiled sentiment using the Pinkfresh Studio Sentiment Foil Plate and die set. And I adhered this panel to a white mini slimline card base.

If you're following me on FB or IG, you've probably seen this painting before. I simply added another Pinkfresh Studio foiled sentiment and some clear gems. I also cut the panel down a bit and added it to a white card base.

This is another painting you've probably seen and again, I added a Pinkfresh Studio Brushed Sentiments foiled sentiment and some AB Clear Gems. This card is 5" x 7" unlike the first two which are unconventional sizes. So I'll have to make some custom envelopes for those.

And that's it for my Gouache Painting Journey today!

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