I just love your video! I have seen Sarah B:s gouache skething videos and wanted to try it myself. I have passionate love for watercolor and have lots of tubes and pans and palettes, but I think my brain works somehow hopelessly backwards for watercolor painting. So yesterday I took an unused watercolor palette and poured (squeezed) gouache (from 10 tubes I once bought for a project I never started) into the wells. Three wells for white just because it is possible to use white (my brain started to jump all around very giddy). Today I was ready to start testing my new gouache palette, but decided to watch one more video just to get confidence. It was your video. When you said "I could have filled this palette with watercolor" I laughed so hard that my dog looked at me wondering - I am usually very silent and don't talk to myself. This video is just what I needed. I like your both sketches, and I like your comments. I like you compairing watercolor and gouache sketches in your sketchbook. And I like your facial expressions. You made gouache sketching somehow very non-frightening and very tempting for me. Thank you!
Thank you for dry gouache update! I am interested to see more of these. I agree that you're able to get intense pigmentation from watercolors too, but I still found the extra opacity of the green foliage more compelling than if it were watercolor. It really grips me and draws me in.
I'm about to set up my pink Mijello palette with gouache. It was formerly watercolor - my very first wc palette. I've never been a fan of waterbrushes -just not enough water control. Thank you for braving the outdoors to paint for us. And for teaching us all about this lovely medium - gouache!
Ahhh 😂yes I do!!! I really appreciate what you do for us. 💕This was a joy to watch you use dry gouache for urban sketching/painting. I love 💕 your results from these painting sessions! It also gives me inspiration to go try gouache with my Urban Sketching & Plein Air painting! Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with us. I love your neighborhood view of the countryside & the museum!
As I’m watching you keep saying it’s very rough and all I’m thinking is WOW 😮 One day I hope I can paint even a little like that… I am still trying to get values right so my shadows don’t look like holes or weird dark walls next to things. Sometimes they look like trenches next to trees or pits near the bush 😢 😂. I think your painting looks fantastic! The arches look so good. I love watching your videos! Your passionate energy, encouragement and fun tutorials keep me coming back for more! Thank you ❤ 😊
I don’t want to do plain air paintings because i have such butterfingers, that i would be dropping things on the ground more than painting! Even an expert artist like you had difficulties in holding on to your palette and sketchbook and other things all at the same time, I can’t imagine how I would have managed all that without dropping things on the floor! You are amazing! And in a whiff you produced a beautiful painting! Goodluck on your next venture outside with the dried guache! Can’t wait for another video from you! I enjoy your tutorials!
One thing you can try for the tripod is a small magic arm or boom arm. It would allow you to put the tripod to your side, but have the camera much closer to over your shoulder.
I hope you had fun, I know I did 😎 & appreciate your efforts. That tiny palette is so pretty, and shiny & slippery…you had your hands full. For gouache I would use an empty waterbrush & a tiny water jar and a back up filled waterbrush to rinse brush when done. I also have very light 9x12 aluminum clipboards perfect for your outing [amazon] I’m so awkward & inefficient when trying new things…making alllllll the mistakes & fumbles. I learn the hard way lol. I like the 1st painting…just need to try a few more times to work the kinks out. I hope you enjoyed it as it looked like a beautiful day out. Thank you for allllll you do Cecile 😊
I need to practice, for sure! I'm really stubborn with this setup and don't want to carry water. I want it light! Going to Paris next week I'll use it more and we'll see.
Thanks for sharing the demo! Really informative, especially your thoughts at the end. A spray bottle (and time) really does help rewet colors... but if you're used to creamy gouache, it's definitely a different feeling! I've found the toughest part of my 5-color dry gouache palette is mixing enough color to use! Maybe it's inexperience (or I'm painting too large, haha), but I might need to add some yellow ochre or custom convenience colors so I don't struggle as much.
Only 5 colors is manageable in studio, but for painting on site I've added more colors! I've tried with a spritz of water before painting and it's better, but still not as I'd like!
If you glued a magnet to your clip, I would bet it would hold on to your paintbox...unless it is aluminum? I really love what you painted! Great location as well.
I have not ever tried to paint with a whole palate of gouache. I am so happy that you shared this experience. There were enough challenges to overcome that I might have been very discouraged. I learned from you that tough challenges are to be expected and to have confidence that I can learn my way through them. That said; You better believe I won't be going to run out and get a set of gouache just yet.
Change your brush and change your experience ❤️ Use your regular brushes and a tiny pot of water. I use the small pots meant for medium that clip on. Holds enough water for a small painting.
Yes, everyone tells me about changing the brush. I guess it's the answer. I have a clip with two little pots I could use. Maybe with a clipboard. I'll make some tries!
@@CecileYadro I was going to suggest an A4 sized clipboard. Much as I love the soft covered Stillman and Birn sketchbooks, a harder cover is easier to work with, on your lap.
it was great to watch you do this , cecile :-))) again , the water brush makes it harder to do this with gouache ( the gouache always gets streaky because of so much dampness in the water brush ).. i keep trying , though( plenty of crap , from me too lolol) .. when i do plein air with the gouache, i have a tiny plastic jar , with small mount of water.. and i bring about four brushes .. much easier to have better control , for me .. the water brush is my standard for watercolors , though .. it can't get more convenient than that 😁😁 thanks!! Norakag
I love using coloured pencils over the top of gouache for detail when out and about 😊. I do like your pallette though, I find a waterbrush puts too much water in the paint and I can't get the consistency that I like.
Yes! I use wet and dry gouache en plein air and I have never been successful with a water brush. I use a small water pot clipped or magnetized on my palette and regular brushes.
If you spray water in a fine fist on your dry gouache it will be creamier when you dip your brush in. You mentioned Sarah Burns in another video and she does that.
From Sara's video I understand that she never let gouache dry too much. Painting every day was the trick. In fact gouache need more than one day to dry till crack. If you put in a palette and paint the day after, it will turn again as fresh with a little amount of spray water. But if you let it full dry, it will be used only as watercolor.
@@CecileYadro I agree. I have the Legal size clipboards and they are very light and with the black clips on the sketchbook and palette it is so easy to manage. Love your energy and programming!
@ I think it is foam board or poster board. Coroplast is a brand name I believe. Very strong for its light weight. I took a piece 9x12 inches and cut it with scissors. The duct tape on one side forms a hinge. A large clip holds it open on your lap. Folded 9x6” it fits in my backpack. Available at hardware and craft stores.
Fantastic video to show that dry gouache will not be my medium, because with the water it will become regular watercolor. I guess than that the simplest way is just to bring the tubes and squeeze out very small blobs from the colors you want to use on a small mixing palette.
Yes I could do that, but in hot days your paint would dry anyway. I've found a better way with dry gouache, stay tuned for the upcoming video on Wednesday!
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Watch the video where I setup this dry gouache palette: th-cam.com/video/GQYSF8jET30/w-d-xo.html
I really appreciate how real you are ! Yes, “sometimes we make crap and that’s ok” ❤😊
Thank you!
I just love your video! I have seen Sarah B:s gouache skething videos and wanted to try it myself. I have passionate love for watercolor and have lots of tubes and pans and palettes, but I think my brain works somehow hopelessly backwards for watercolor painting. So yesterday I took an unused watercolor palette and poured (squeezed) gouache (from 10 tubes I once bought for a project I never started) into the wells. Three wells for white just because it is possible to use white (my brain started to jump all around very giddy).
Today I was ready to start testing my new gouache palette, but decided to watch one more video just to get confidence. It was your video.
When you said "I could have filled this palette with watercolor" I laughed so hard that my dog looked at me wondering - I am usually very silent and don't talk to myself.
This video is just what I needed. I like your both sketches, and I like your comments. I like you compairing watercolor and gouache sketches in your sketchbook. And I like your facial expressions.
You made gouache sketching somehow very non-frightening and very tempting for me. Thank you!
That's so sweet! Thanks a lot! And yes, being able to paint white feels like cheating when you come from watercolor.
Thank you for dry gouache update! I am interested to see more of these. I agree that you're able to get intense pigmentation from watercolors too, but I still found the extra opacity of the green foliage more compelling than if it were watercolor. It really grips me and draws me in.
It's really a matter of taste!
I love gouache because it is so forgiving! Great demonstration, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I love your painting! I think it's absolutely darling.
Thanks a lot!
I'm about to set up my pink Mijello palette with gouache. It was formerly watercolor - my very first wc palette. I've never been a fan of waterbrushes -just not enough water control. Thank you for braving the outdoors to paint for us. And for teaching us all about this lovely medium - gouache!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for being honest about the things that didn't go as planned. Lots of video's are sooo perfect! I like yours ❤
Thanks! I think it’s important that everyone sees the reality of making art. it’s not always going like a breeze!
Ahhh 😂yes I do!!! I really appreciate what you do for us. 💕This was a joy to watch you use dry gouache for urban sketching/painting. I love 💕 your results from these painting sessions! It also gives me inspiration to go try gouache with my Urban Sketching & Plein Air painting! Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with us. I love your neighborhood view of the countryside & the museum!
Thanks a lot Colleen! I thought we could do Urban Sketching in the membership in July?
@@CecileYadro Ohh yes, please!!
As I’m watching you keep saying it’s very rough and all I’m thinking is WOW 😮 One day I hope I can paint even a little like that… I am still trying to get values right so my shadows don’t look like holes or weird dark walls next to things. Sometimes they look like trenches next to trees or pits near the bush 😢 😂.
I think your painting looks fantastic! The arches look so good. I love watching your videos! Your passionate energy, encouragement and fun tutorials keep me coming back for more! Thank you ❤ 😊
Thanks a lot! 🥰
This was SUCH a great video! thank you!
Thanks a lot!
I love it Cecile "capturing the beauty all around" so stunning
Thank you! 🥰
I don’t want to do plain air paintings because i have such butterfingers, that i would be dropping things on the ground more than painting! Even an expert artist like you had difficulties in holding on to your palette and sketchbook and other things all at the same time, I can’t imagine how I would have managed all that without dropping things on the floor! You are amazing! And in a whiff you produced a beautiful painting! Goodluck on your next venture outside with the dried guache! Can’t wait for another video from you! I enjoy your tutorials!
Thanks a lot! it was very slippery with the metallic palette, when it’s clipped on the sketchbook it’s easier. Still not the perfect setup i’m afraid!
You’d probably want to give the Portable Painter Classic palette a try.
One thing you can try for the tripod is a small magic arm or boom arm. It would allow you to put the tripod to your side, but have the camera much closer to over your shoulder.
I have to try this, thank you!
I hope you had fun, I know I did 😎 & appreciate your efforts. That tiny palette is so pretty, and shiny & slippery…you had your hands full. For gouache I would use an empty waterbrush & a tiny water jar and a back up filled waterbrush to rinse brush when done. I also have very light 9x12 aluminum clipboards perfect for your outing [amazon] I’m so awkward & inefficient when trying new things…making alllllll the mistakes & fumbles. I learn the hard way lol. I like the 1st painting…just need to try a few more times to work the kinks out. I hope you enjoyed it as it looked like a beautiful day out. Thank you for allllll you do Cecile 😊
I need to practice, for sure! I'm really stubborn with this setup and don't want to carry water. I want it light! Going to Paris next week I'll use it more and we'll see.
Thanks for sharing the demo! Really informative, especially your thoughts at the end.
A spray bottle (and time) really does help rewet colors... but if you're used to creamy gouache, it's definitely a different feeling! I've found the toughest part of my 5-color dry gouache palette is mixing enough color to use! Maybe it's inexperience (or I'm painting too large, haha), but I might need to add some yellow ochre or custom convenience colors so I don't struggle as much.
Only 5 colors is manageable in studio, but for painting on site I've added more colors! I've tried with a spritz of water before painting and it's better, but still not as I'd like!
If you glued a magnet to your clip, I would bet it would hold on to your paintbox...unless it is aluminum? I really love what you painted! Great location as well.
It's already magnetic inside, under the pans. I'll give it a try, thanks!
I have not ever tried to paint with a whole palate of gouache. I am so happy that you shared this experience. There were enough challenges to overcome that I might have been very discouraged. I learned from you that tough challenges are to be expected and to have confidence that I can learn my way through them. That said; You better believe I won't be going to run out and get a set of gouache just yet.
I hope I'm not showing only the difficulties with gouache! It's a lot of fun for the most part!!!
I go sometimes Plein air...I completely understand the difficulties. You managed so well that too with dry gouache. Wow!
Thank you! although I feel I didn’t do very well!
Change your brush and change your experience ❤️
Use your regular brushes and a tiny pot of water. I use the small pots meant for medium that clip on. Holds enough water for a small painting.
Sarah Burns is my favorite landscape gouache artist and James Gurney is my favorite urban sketching gouache artist.
Yes, everyone tells me about changing the brush. I guess it's the answer. I have a clip with two little pots I could use. Maybe with a clipboard. I'll make some tries!
@@CecileYadro I was going to suggest an A4 sized clipboard. Much as I love the soft covered Stillman and Birn sketchbooks, a harder cover is easier to work with, on your lap.
it was great to watch you do this , cecile :-))) again , the water brush makes it harder to do this with gouache ( the gouache always gets streaky because of so much dampness in the water brush ).. i keep trying , though( plenty of crap , from me too lolol) .. when i do plein air with the gouache, i have a tiny plastic jar , with small mount of water.. and i bring about four brushes ..
much easier to have better control , for me .. the water brush is my standard for watercolors , though .. it can't get more convenient than that 😁😁 thanks!! Norakag
I still have to find the good setup for plein air. I didn’t want to carry water but I feel like I’ll have to.
Thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks for watching!
New subscriber here! 🙋♀️ As a beginner, I love listening to you and watching you create. (You remind me of Isabella Rosselini! 😊)
Thanks! I wish I looked like her!
I love using coloured pencils over the top of gouache for detail when out and about 😊. I do like your pallette though, I find a waterbrush puts too much water in the paint and I can't get the consistency that I like.
It’s the same for me, the consistency is not right.
I always use normal paint brushes and a pot of water then I have more control over consistency and totally agree crap is good 😂
Yes! I use wet and dry gouache en plein air and I have never been successful with a water brush. I use a small water pot clipped or magnetized on my palette and regular brushes.
If you spray water in a fine fist on your dry gouache it will be creamier when you dip your brush in. You mentioned Sarah Burns in another video and she does that.
Yes, I’m afraid I will have to carry a spray. I wanted to go as light as possible!
From Sara's video I understand that she never let gouache dry too much. Painting every day was the trick. In fact gouache need more than one day to dry till crack. If you put in a palette and paint the day after, it will turn again as fresh with a little amount of spray water. But if you let it full dry, it will be used only as watercolor.
I thought I could get somewhere in between!!! 😕
I usually just take a photo and do it later ... then doing it on the spot
I do that as well! but the idea was to try it on site!
I agree about the control...maybe watercolor is easier to work that way.
I have to compare!
Can you provide a link for the water pens? Thank you so much!
You have a ton of it, this is the one I'm using: amzn.to/3CbTfUn
I use a clipboard 😊
I should do that, but a very light one! I really want to keep it minimal.
@@CecileYadro I agree. I have the Legal size clipboards and they are very light and with the black clips on the sketchbook and palette it is so easy to manage. Love your energy and programming!
Thank you! I have to find a light clipboard, it's not that common here in France!
@@CecileYadro you can easily make your own clipboard because you already have the clips
Make yourself a folding lapboard with coroplast and duct tape!
coroplast? what it that?
@ I think it is foam board or poster board. Coroplast is a brand name I believe. Very strong for its light weight. I took a piece 9x12 inches and cut it with scissors. The duct tape on one side forms a hinge. A large clip holds it open on your lap. Folded 9x6” it fits in my backpack. Available at hardware and craft stores.
Ok, I see. Thank you!
Fantastic video to show that dry gouache will not be my medium, because with the water it will become regular watercolor. I guess than that the simplest way is just to bring the tubes and squeeze out very small blobs from the colors you want to use on a small mixing palette.
Yes I could do that, but in hot days your paint would dry anyway. I've found a better way with dry gouache, stay tuned for the upcoming video on Wednesday!