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Here's the process video for the gouache painting I posted earlier today! Again, it's sped up to twice the original speed. With gouache, I found I could do a watercolor-style 'underpainting' where I figure out the lighting and values of the painting before detailing it further. Going from thin, watered-down texture to thicker texture worked well! Painting light on dark is also an option but it doesn't always work that well, so I tried to keep the light-on-dark limited to final highlights. Hope you enjoy!

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France

Hi Loish, just watching this process video and the colored pencil you use to do the sketch looks so creamy. Would you mind sharing the brand?

France

I switched to my desktop to view the video with better definition and it looks like a derwent coloursoft pencil in ginger?

France

I’ll be sure to check that out, thanks Lois!

Aadishri Soni

Thank you so much for sharing the process. It's so helpful to watch these

Wh0

Good idea the diluted underpainting to see how it works ! 👍🏻 Thanks for these videos ! 😃🤩 Just a question about the gouache, how many colors did you use ? Did you make a lot of mixing ?

dia Prachakul

It is mesmerising watching you work.

Loish

I used about 10 colors or so! I did mix quite a lot, that's what I think is really nice about gouache. With a limited palette, you can create a lot of intermediate tones quite easily! Most of the colors I used were brown/orange, dark blue, black, and white. I mixed them all together in different ways to create the middle tones.

Eddie Uresti

So can you tell us what are the colors you used? :)

Loish

sure! the main colors I used were: - gold ochre - cadmium orange - cadmium scarlet - venetian red - winsor green - winsor blue and of course black & white. the brand was winsor & newton designers gouache!

Angie

This is one of my favorites! Is it available as a print anywhere? Thank you for sharing this process :)

Loish

thanks so much angie! this one isn't available as a print, but I can always arrange one for you if you want. just email me at loishh@gmail.com :)