These are great! I keep seeing gouache popping up everywhere, it’s like the universe is hinting that I should paint with gouache… but I just started learning watercolor! Why must there be so many tasty media?!!!
I started in watercolor, and spent so much effort trying to get an opaque effect. A friend saw me struggling and said “why aren’t you using gouache?” It blew my mind 😅
Watercolorist here also eyeing gouache! It seems like it’ll be freeing in some ways. You’re doing great in the switch
I do love the transparency (and sometimes unpredictability) of watercolor which got me interested in the first place. There’s a vibrant and lively quality to gouache though, though, that really tugs at me. Maybe it’s the fact that you can go both opaque and transparent? Unfortunately money is tight and I can’t afford to splash out on decent gouache at the moment so I will focus on watercolor and squash the gouache for now.
Just get a nice tube of white, you can mix with your watercolors and get nearly the same effect!
Gorgeous.
Thank you!
I love these! Is that aquarium soil for your Nepenthes?
Haha yes, Fluval Stratum is the best for carnivorous plants! Very low nutrient content and stays nice and moist. I don’t have a huge collection or I’d have to find something cheaper to use.
These are actually heliamphora not nepenthes, I haven’t tried painting my nepenthes yet, maybe that will be next.
Wow love it! Such a cool ornate copper pot! You should do a study of that one! Lots of intricate detail to explore!
Beautiful studies! The first one looks especially juicy, just the way a succulent should be!
I think I’m realizing something about myself from these comments. “Juicy succulents”, “nice butts”, my obsession with phallic / yonic carnivorous plants…
Am I plantsexual? 😅
Your butts are nice.
😆
I can’t help but sing “butts pooping butts” whenever I see them at a plant store.
I don’t care if folks stare, that’s what they are.
Lithops are freaks.
They absolutely are! Mine are growing new leaves right now and it’s kind of wretched.
love the bottom-left one
Thank you!
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