The Difference Between Gouache, Watercolor, and Acryla Gouache (With Special Appearance By Acrylics)
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"It's like painting with mud"
Me who only know how to paint with acrylic paint and loves it: I feel attacked
Same!
Lol ikr 😭
Big mood
Yeah, I've never been too fond of watercolors. I much prefer my "mud" 😂
@@olyverbean2142 I like watercolors, but my mud is SO versatile
I started out with acrylics... can quit them now! I think I built my whole style out of the limitations of working with them. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm still playing with acrylics! Adding wax medium, adding matte medium, putties, gesso, etc etc.... acrylics are very good for mixed media formats bc they dont budge when you lay down all the other media on top.
I would think acrylics are "a whole lot easier to work with" because you can layer on top in case you make an error. The thing about some of these professionals is that they tend to be biased with certain mediums because of the style they do, plus, the accessibility for these paint isn't always prevalent in some places. Acrylics isn't exactly limiting but that depends on how you make art.
i mostly startet with acrylics because they were cheaper
also i have matte acrylics
Yeah, but unlike watercolor you can add so much detail without running the risk of damaging the paper underneath, and you can make acrylic semi transparent by adding enough water to them, that how I do some shading and highlights
Same
😂 i love the feeling of acrylic i like how its thicc but not as much as oil
Yeah some like oil because it doesn't dry up and you can mix it BUT it tends to take a long time to dry and you always need to be in a well ventilated area. Watercolors, you can't layer dark on top of light (talk about EASY to work with? 😆 I've heard more complaints on fixing up mistakes)
@@RitsychServare you can layer dark on top of light…
@@RitsychServare what you can’t do is layer light on top of dark
I feel like acrylics are fun to play about with but I hate trying to actually get anything done with them🤣
Yeah I feel like acrylic is the beat for beginners, because they are versatile and dry up quickly also very forgiving. If you use it thick and make mistake you can just layer over it. If you want to try to paint like water colour you can just dilute it with water. You can use brush or palette knife like oil painting but it dries so much faster.
I really love painting with acrylics which i am comfortable with and tbh they are the best paints. I started watching your channel and learned so much about watercolour and bought a set of camel watercolour tubes but still the texture and mixing i get in acrylic is unmatchable for me
I have to be on his side about painting with mud. But that's kinda why I love them.
I usually use a paint thinner or a wet pallet to soften my acrylic paints. So it gives it a good in-between. If done right it can move like oil paints. Which is very nice 👌😌
I've never been very comfortable with watercolours but watching your videos makes me want to go ahead and experiment with them and possibly embark on a watercolour art journey! So thank you for that😁😁
"It's like painting with mud"
That's how the first artists paint. Our cavemen ancestors did not shy away from that fine mud
"that fine mud" LOL
Wow likes
Haven't we all made a mud cake at some point in our life? No wonder acrylics are so fun
🙏 yes
Premium quality mud 😎
@@Silentsoulkeeper love this comment XD
I love how thick and glossy acrylic is, it allows for very expressive brushwork
and for impatient people it’s perfect since it dries really fast
like i love an impasto moment.... painting with gouache is cute but shes not that girl
What I love most about water color is how much the paint seems to have a mind of its own. They're not my go to, but I've noticed that whenever I find myself in a rut of trying to make something perfect or be totally in control of my art, breaking out the water color and letting them do their thing is the perfect way to get back to a place where I can let my art breathe!
“it’s like painting with mud” as he doesn’t even wet his brush
That bothered me so much 😂😭 he could literally make the acrylic more watercolor like by watering it down and it will still hold its shape and color
Acrylic lovers just are smarter 🤷♀️🤣
If you haven't noticed he knows very little about acrylic paint.
I've never really felt comfortable with watercolor or couldn't really get the hang of it mainly because ive started with acrylic and found it really easy for the purpose I was doing but ever since I've started watching your videos it's wanted me to really really try over and over again everyday try to just paint soemthing eith gouache or watercolor because you make such beautiful art and all your videos with tips and just the ones where you show your art are always really helpful and inspiring so thank you for that💗💗
Gouache and watercolor have the same amount of pigment in them (as long as your comparing study to study and artist to artist quality) however the pigments in gouache are slighlty rougher making it slightly more opaque, it also has chalk in it which makes it even more opaque and also matt. Apart from that they are indeed identical.
Side note, the amount pigment doesn't determine the opaqueness in any paint, only the colour strength (similair to salt making something taste more like salt, pigment only makes your vehicle look more like the pigment). However the colour of the pigment does determine how opaque something is, modern ultramarine pigment for instance is always relatively transparent (except in gouache because of the chalk).
Thanks for reading my TED talk...
i love acrylics... they blend so beautifully
Well i tough myself with acrylic first and it s a good starting point too because it can dry fast and have a wonderful coverage with waterproof qualities. It means you can modify your errors as many time as you want without risks :)
Yes! Thank you 🙏🏽 that was super informative, interesting and you're so fun to listen to! My son is autistic and he loves to color. I'm a terrible artist but I really try to develop his skills. So having you explain so many things so efficiently has really helped me! So thank you kindly Sir 🙏🏽🙌🏽 Blessings to you ✌🏽💛💙🇺🇦
I feel attacked with my whole damn set of acrylics
Cries in aCRYlics
I think an art collection tour would be so cool! I love to get ideas about the supplies my favorite artists use and I just like to live vicariously through them with all the supplies I can’t afford lol
Your videos are amazing, and they inspire so many people including me!
Your pfp inspires me to wear my drip.
Wow, thank you!
@@ryanconey1297 wear your drip mate
If I didn't learn with acrylics I probably would have never enjoyed painting and stuck with other mediums lol. I love how thick it is.
Me: Painted with Acrylics for 3 years before even knowing a paint type called ‘watercolour’ or ‘guoache’ existed :p
And it’s possible to thin out acrylics if youse just know how to use them right. They’re not necessarily always thick and shiny
I dig acrylics because I like playing with mud, but getting into watercolors now. It's been fun learning a new medium
*cries in learned to paint with acrylics*
but fr it holds a special place in my heart and i never learned to work with watercolors and gouache so i cant say anything
Im an acrylics person, but thats to your channel i bought a water colour pallet yesterday and am in the process of learning how to use them, i think i love it!
I've tried working with watercolour and it drove me crazy. I definitely prefer acrylic. If I really want a watercolour effect, I can dilute it with water. If I want an oil effect, I can switch from brush to knife and not worry about accidentally ruining it once I'm done coz it takes a year to dry completely.
My ADHD already gives me enough unfinished projects, I don't need my paintings to join that Forgotten Pile.
Ditto 👍
I love your comparison videos! I was taught to paint in acrylic, then oil, now I'm falling in love with watercolor, but I miss the opaqueness of acrylic. I think I need to give gauche a go!!
Thanks for putting subs when you don't have earphones and everyone is sleeping it really helps
This is why its important to play with mediums, as long as they're quality made, there's no bad or wrong option, its all about personal preference, style and technique. What's perfect for one artist, is a great bane for others, u gotta figure out what's right for you. 😊
When I'm on a budget, I use guache to paint and then spray it with varnish..
I love the muddy texture of acrylics lol. Never been all that fond of watercolors
As someone who started out painting with water colors, acrylic is actually a lot easier to learn. I recommend acrylic or acryla-gouache when starting out but that's just me.
My old art teacher descibed painting with acrylic like painting with plastic. Idk that's always stuck with me and feels like a great way to explain it
I hated acrylics at first. Completely ignored them after many failures.
So I started with watercolors, then discovered and fell in love with gouache.
But I started back painting with acrylic recently and I laughed so hard at my younger self!! It’s not so scary anymore… and I find it so much more simpler after all this time.
Mr. Whoeveryouare, youve just cleared something up for me that no one else has. Thank you 🙏🏾
i have some water colour paint in one of my bags, i dont really use it since i cant find a water colour sketch book anywhere
Use cartridge sheets
@@AnnaRajasekharan ok ty! i'll try find some!
@@atticusEmily_spider I wouldn't use cartridge sheets for watercolor because they don't have the gelatin sizing added to the paper. If it doesn't have sizing the paint just sinks into the fibers and you're less able to use water to spread your paint around in washes. Instead I would recommend buying Stillman & Bern Beta sketchbooks. The paper is sized and a sturdy 180lb. weight so it resists warping when you paint with watercolors. I've used them for my sketchbooks for years now.
@@AnnaRajasekharan cartridge sheets don't have gelatin sizing required for good watercolor paper.
@@dawnchesbro4189 @Dawn Chesbro I have been using cartridge sheets for 2-3 years you have to choose thicker sheets(higher gsm)
It's cheaper and affordable ...
You can practice watercolour using those sheets... I never experienced any kind of problem like that.
Still It's difficult to add more layers if you use thin sheets.
I started with acrylics and have done a little watercolor, but have never been very good at it. I much prefer acrylics but your water color paintings are so cool!
I'm telling you man, when painting with acrylics you need to mix in a bit of water so it glides easier. I used to be weary of them but after learning how to properly use them I love acrylics!
Thanks for the side by side comparison! Super helpful
Do you have any affordable/cheap good quality art supply recommendations? The others can be really expensive 😅
Tell me about it!!
Try bulk supplies on eBay maybe? Or local classifieds. You may get lucky and stumble upon someone cleaning out their massive collection. You can set an alert if a similar listing pops up.
Its crazy to hear someone say watercolors are actually easier to work with than acrylics, which I've heard the opposite my entire life from artist and art teachers alike! Took me years to get my first watercolor palette out of fear and now i can't stop using it! They really are so versatile and fun.
You should try Golden fluid acrylics. Those are truly amazing! It's great because you can glaze with it by adding water and making it less opaque. They have an insane amount of pigment making them very very opaque when added straight from the tube. I also love them because they don't have this "muddy texture". Jesper Ejsing, an amazing artist uses these too and his work is phenomenal.
I didn't even know acryla gouache was a thing!!! It looks amazing I gotta try using it!!!
as an acrylic/water color painter my self I feel this is so relatable
I like acrylics because it’s textured and 3D and it’s beautiful and amazes me
You should talk about poster colors, it would be very interesting, love your videos! This was very helpful to me as I am just beginning to enter the world of watercolors.
I tried to start painting with acrylics, but i soon found our that wasn't really my type of media. I am painting with gouache now, and i love it! It is the child of watercolours and acrylics, and I hope that someday I get the chance of using some acryla gouaches,too (they are so very expensive)
I've never felt pain while watching someone use paint, but that application of watercolor felt like hearing nails on a chalkboard 🥲
I’m honestly an acrylic-gouache fan. It’s the best of all of them.
my mud works on every surface imaginable, wood, canvas, the right kind of paper, and i’m a crafter so it’s great for me! i mainly do cartoon-y portraits with a lot of color blocking and less blending. I also do sunsets sometimes and they blend well if you work quickly. Acrylic also drys fast unlike oil so it can be tricky :) but if you want more realism with a ton of blending and transparent layering, acrylic probably wont work great for that. every medium is meant for certain things so every artist will have different opinions and preferences :)
It doesn't matter if you like acrylic, gouache or watercolor
Youre still an artist!!
My favourite is watercolours for sure. I don't mind acrylics for more opaque details, which I use with watercolours too. I have never used gouache though. I am learning so much form this channel!
I adore all your videos! Thank you for being awesome like always lol
I love how you respond to your fans, you are the best and an amazing artist
You have really inspired me these past few weeks to improve my art and have taught me so much thanks!!
Thing about acrylics is that you can add bunch of acrylic mediums into it such as retarder, matt medium, etc to make it dry slower or be matt when it dries, and you can make them very simmilar to oils.
Your videos are really helping me to practice thank you so so much 🙏🏽
You can add thinner and "delayed dry down" mediums to acrylics so they become thinner and dry slower.
I have been looking for a good breakdown of these four things for years. This is so easy to understand, thank you!
His colour collection is amazing 😍
Thank you! This is exactly the video I was looking for, never really liked that acrylics have this glossy finish I can't get rid of, even tried baking soda but it gets an abrasive, gritty feel and is less versatile, in contrast to it's base consistency that can get smoother with a thinning medium.
I might look for either acrylic gouache or gouache proper, depending on which has better archival properties. Because that's the flat, mate look I'm looking for.
this is a world saver for my paintings
I love saturated color of acrylic so i use acrylic white and black on my water color painting for brighter look
I love painting with acrylics!
A lot of people paint backgrounds with acrylic gouaches, because it looks like gouache but doesn’t reactivate.
I started out with acrylics as I didn’t know there were different types of paint when I first started but discovering gauche was mind blowing. I hated watercolor as I just find them difficult to work with and I disliked that I had to work somewhat fast with acrylic (I can pretty much only afford cheaper paints so the quality isn’t the best) so having a paint where it’s solid but I can still change it is amazing!
I've been watching your videos short for a while, and watching them I wish to buy all the colours you use. According to my wish, the day is no far I go broke. 😅
But no seriously, thanks for the basics you teach us. Love from India. ❤️
Tbh it would be fun to mix em up. For example,lets say you paint a car (for some reason) and you could use acrilic for the car itself and acryla goache for the background like the ground,and watercolor for the sky w clouds!
That would be pretty tbh
I remember in highscool we had this assignment to paint sweets in realism and everyone chose to do it in acrylic because it was "easier" but I just couldn't make it work for me, that was when i really figured out watercolour and how to paint with them and ever since I've stuck to mainly watercolours and I also really enjoyed using oil paints while in college and still can't use acrylics 😅
Omg! I want those drawers!! 😍
I find it hilarious that in my painting phase I've found out that
1. I HATE acrylic but am pretty good at using it
2. LOVE watercolor and am still bad at using it
And 3. I dislike traditional painting in general but like the idea of it
watercolor makes such a unique look. (&gouache) but i have never in my life felt like they were “easier” lol. acrylic is so much more forgiving!
It’s funny because I have actually used more acrylics from a younger age. I’m about to do a project with watercolors and it’s weird to me that it doesn’t always stay where you want it, but it’s fun.
I had to learn acrylics were waterproof the hard way 😂😂 i guess amateur painters encounter such happy accidents sometimes
When it comes to acrylics if you use them on a daily basis you practically know how much you need to put on that part of the canvas you wanna add it on so it doesn’t look textured
I started with acrylic in high school and have had so much trouble learning watercolor. I'm used to putting in my base color and then adding lights and shadows later, but with watercolor that doesn't work (at least not for me. I've never been properly taught so I have no idea what I'm doing). It's a learning curve and it's very easy to get frustrated
I too prefer matte over gloss and we have a matte acrylic thats pretty good and produced locally here in South Africa. I have dabbled in watercolor and gouache ...but acrylic have been my go to since childhood for some reason.
I do a lot of crafts, and so I use acrylics a lot... That texture and smell are my favourite✨
Love it 🥰 Answering my question about gouache and watercolor
Painted with acrylic when I was a teen, hated it, assumed it meant painting just wasnt for me. Started painting with watercolours when I got older, rekindled the love for art I had as a kid. Sometimes the problem isnt you, its the format.
it’s probably glossy because of the type of acrylic you used. there’s the glossy finish, but there’s also a matte finish.
one time i was dumb and bought glossy black instead of matte black. when i finished the painting, everything was matte but the black was glossy 😭
In school we were forced to use watercolours but never really taught how to use them and I know that I personally prefer acrylics because it feels like I have more control over my paintings and I find them easy to use and produce something nice but my friends and I still argue because they prefer watercolours. I don't see how watercolours are better but if you can use watercolours right it looks amazing
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This was a really helpful video, thank you for the explanation.
I mean, acrylics are more like oil paints in a lot of ways. It's a whole different medium and no matter where you start you'll have to find different ways to play with the mediums' strengths and weaknesses. I for one absolutely love acrylics, they're my go-to paint, with watercolor second. And to note they're water proof once they have dried, you can thin them with water when they're still fresh.
you can get matte acrylics and acrylics can be mixed with water before application to make it flow more and increase transparency
Those drawers were way longer then I expected and it caught me off guard lol
I started using acrylics in just the last year, but mix a little water in and sort of glaze with them to building up colors. I enjoy them because they dry fast and I can keep moving quickly.. you want to use something sturdy like illustration board with them though
Your timing could not have been more perfect lol I was looking into buying some recently since I’ve gotten into watercolors. I used to be heavily into painting with acrylic though so when I saw there was acrylic gouache I wondered what the difference was between them.
I think my favorite is gouache, I like being able to do very blocky and colorful pieces like with acryclics, but also make it more sheer with water like watercolor.
There are mediums you can mix with acrylics to get rid of that glossy texture. Generally though I only use acrylics for when I want to apply a thick paint texture to my art.
I love the texture of acrylics, even if it’s harder to work with the works that can be produced, there’s something raw about them which I enjoy
I started painting with watercolour only after discovering this channel. I only used acrylics before.
The main difference between watercolor and acrylic:
With watercolor, the paper has to have texture. With acrylic, the paint makes the texture. You can use acrylic on any kind of paint and it'll still look interesting.
Guys he's not bashing acrylics hes just explaining his preferences and the differences between each.Alot of people start with water colors but alot also start with acrylic. Art is all about what works for you what you prefer and how you do it.its about expressing yourself creating and having fun doing it .chill out
This is the coziest man i have ever seen.
You can water them down and they’ll come out flatter without streak lines and depending on the acrylic they can come out Matt
Painting with mud is exactly how I would describe acrylics…but when you water them down a bit the act nicer and more similar to acrylic gouache
I am so jealous of this drawer... So amazing!!!
These videos are so calming and fun to watch. Keep up the art and the videos of course :)
I used to paint with acrylic then tilted to watercolour and now i wana bring giach paint since its soo satisfying and amazing❤
There are also acrylics with matte finish, you just need a specific type. I also don't like the glossy finish but I found ones with matte and it's fantastic.
I’ve never heard of acrylic gouache that’s really neat