Witness The Stunning Effects Of Mixing Gouache Paint With Soft Pastel - Love the Results!

I think that you have given an absolutely brilliant exhibition of how to create superb mixed media arts with these media. I was inspired enough to buy some pastels and pastel card. At the least it gives me a fighting chance of breaking my addiction to watercolours :)

I love how you experiment, very inspirational

Joe Brann here from Farmville N.C. enjoyed this very much

Beautiful! God Bless and Have a Happy Easter!

My friend gave me that 60 color set. I love playing with it and making mixed media. Thx for sharing your art with us.

Interesting ❤

Gorgeous ❤

i quite often use gouache as an underpainting for my pastel wildlife pictures , especially if its a spotty animal

Very fun!

Absolutely beautiful.

Is this being done on watercolor paper?

Gorgeous

Fellow Floridian here, native actually :)
I always learn something from your tutorials, and this time it was turning the board sideways to make the reflections easier to translate. Many thanks :)

Thank you Susan. I actually have this set of gouache, so I am excited to try it as an under painting with my pastels. Thank you for introducing another fun under painting technique.

Lol: Don’t get “bogged down” in the marsh.

Lovely work

Hi..I use a small bottle that has a point so I can distribute a couple of drops of clean water to my gouache palette before painting to reconstitute the paint.. and also to make it more creamy when I push it out in the half pan. After applying a couple of drops of water to the gouache paint.. sometimes I use more than a couple of drops..... I let it sit for a few minutes and it is ready to go. Gouache is opaque watercolor. The opacity comes from the pigment or an opaquing agent like chalk. If using professional paints it will be the pigment that makes it opaque. I don't dilute further than a milk consistency because of "white-ing out" meaning you will have a white spot and it won't accept color because the tooth is lost.

It’s not new, we were doing this thirty years ago.

Beautiful !!

Thank you. I find pastels very tricky so will definitely try underlining with gouache.

Stunningly Beautiful! Happy Easter Susan

Very beautiful.

Beautiful 💞👌

I had a soul-gasm when you said the pallet could be rehydrated 😂🎉

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Wieder super gemacht! Danke - und ich freu mich schon auf den nächsten Teil.

Hake brush.

The brush is called a Hake brush (pronounched ha-keh). Japanese brush, or Hake, has a long history with first records from the “Wamyō Ruijushō,” a document written in 923 AD during the Heian Period, and was made of millet plants to paint lacquer on bow and arrows and bowls.

GOUACHE GUIDE

I love working with gouache and now I’m excited to try it with pastels.

I’ve never used gouache but I would like to

I have been wanting to mention I use marble dust mixed into any acrylic for color background or clear gesso for a sandy surface. It works very well to make your own sanded papers.

Hi Susan it's a hake brush! 😊 I'm pretty sure 😮😅it is anyway?! I love this free video ❤ One of these days I'll rejoin. Take care 😊❤

You are a talented artist, we appreciate your pastel tutorial. I hope you don't get upset hearing the criticism, you talk too much and it makes us less able to tolerate your voice and turn off the sound and just watch.

Hello! I just recently started using gouache paint a lot for a painting class that I’m taking… I have to transport it on the bus and I don’t like a lot of set up time when I get to my class… I use those little paint pot strips that sometimes kids use, to hold the paint and keep it fresh :-) makes it easy to dip into it and put it out on the pallet! I love pastel, and I love gouache so I had to click on your video! I’m really trying to get into landscapes and your work is inspirational :-)

That test piece, the what? poppies? Lovely.

Wow, that was so cool. Really shakes up my way of thinking about colour.

I love the final painting! I started in gouache with the Holbein mixing set, which is CYM primaries and black and white, and is about $26 on Amazon. I'm glad you mentioned using dried vs. out of the tube, because a lot of the joy of gouache is the opacity and having a medium that's easy cleanup but can be used like oil or acrylic! However, there are airtight palettes -- which keep it wet, but you do have to be careful to keep it from molding. Sarah Burns also has a method of using a watercolor palette like you're using, but reconstituting it much more fully by spraying it with water several times in the 1/2 hr or so before you use it. Using it frequently also helps. She has great info on both these methods on her channel. One thing that will help with opacity is actually NOT making the puddles like you did - works great for watercolor, but not so well for gouache. Another thing I do sometimes is pour gouache out of the tube, and cover the leftovers with plastic wrap after painting, so that I can use it over the next several days for more paintings. And then of course you could try a sta-wet palette.

Gouash guide. Love your work!

I just found you last nite and I am fascinated with your process.

When you say that you are using soft pastels, are these oil or chalk? Those are the only ones I know about!

If I'm working on white papers I use transparent watercolors as my under painting. Gouache is watercolor, just an opaque form of it. I used to use pastels for under paintings but decided it filled the tooth up too much. My favorite paper that allows for endless layers is toned Pastelmat. It's expensive but worth every cent. Happy painting!

I have been using gouache for about a year. Last summer, I was plein air painting with my pastels, and when I applied a fixative, I lost some of my rich sky and other colors from using the fixative. I touched up the areas that had faded with gouache, and the colors were returned with the gouache. Since then, I have been using this technique with success. I enjoyed watching this tutorial because it is a reverse to my technique. Thank you for sharing your wonderful love of pastels.

Whoa nice medium ; great composition

WOW!!! Haven't attempted this technique, but definitely intrigued.... Simply beautiful 😍

Dear Susan, I haven't watched your videos for a long time.
We haven't had electricity for few months and I have done some volunteering projects.
Now I get depressed and stopped painting again. I feel destructed because of pain in my spine. I still limited in movement Every time when I walk some longer I have spasms and pain.
And I have doubts wether I will be able to move freely as I could before.
But I use this pause to scope inside my wish and feelings to work them out.
Thanks for your kind words and prayers ❤️🙏

Could I use gouache on Cansons mi- Teintes? Very interesting to underpaint first. Thanks

Thank you so much 😊. I've learnt so much from your videos. You are the best art teacher. God bless.🎉

Susan you are wonderful!❤

So interesting! Thank you for sharing this technique! I'm so surprised Gouache is not that popular in the US. In Russia we all used gouache in junior school for art classes. (all public schools, not some fancy special schools)

Hey! I loved your video, super cool and informative! I just tried soft pastels the other day and my question is: what to do with all the dust? 😅🙈

Did you like this lesson? I love experimenting with different mediums in combination with soft pastel. Give me some suggestions of what type of lessons you'd like to see! ;) 🤩