Gouache Gallery - all the paintings shown have been painted with Gouache ink or paint.


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Gouache is great for fine art, illumination and illustration work, quick drying and correctable. If you've not tried it, it's a bit like using a controllable, thick watercolour paint. Gouache has an opaque, matt, almost velvet finish and I find it another amenable medium. For an introduction to Gouache painting click the link, for a new Book I've produced on 'Gouache Painting Techniques' please click the link.
For all of the paintings on this page the subject was drawn first, this allows for any corrections before putting either medium to paper, although both are correctable, the corrections always show to the experienced eye! I rarely work above 10" x 8" with these two media.

the mushroom was set up, drawn and painted as you see it


Gouache can be used in mixed media painting.

unusual mushrooms these but with beautiful detail on the stalks

These mushrooms were painted from life with Gouache paint, on HP WColour paper 10" x 8" Sold.
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A unusual specimen! Gouache on watercolour paper. 10" x 8" Sold
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This mushroom was painted using the Liquid Gouache inks and Sable/synthetic brushes, on 115 lb Bristol Board.

Poppy painted with Gouache.
Outlined in Gold Metal Ink using a dip pen.
Demo painting.


Gouache can be used to underpaint before oil painting.

Part of the step-by-step painting in the Gouache Painting Techniques book. Ebook expected July 2012

Gouache in a dip pen being used to put the waterlines in a painting.

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