I have some new papers to test out and how better to test them than to paint a wizard on a journey? Here’s their first stop, a quiet forest:
I want to sort of fine tune my gouache plus pencil crayon/neocolor/pastels etc process into something i can rely on well enough to try flexing in other ways, if that makes sense? and I think I’m getting there with gouache finally, which is exciting!
This paper is really, really thin for any wet media use — 163g according to my research — but it is still absorbent and has a cold press texture on the front. It did make it hard to not constantly lift the gouache as I layered, but it also encouraged going right to Very Thick Paint by giving me enough tooth to pull thick gouache off my brush effectively.
The tooth is probably a bit too intense for small scale pencil crayon stuff though – it’s very hard to get clean lines and the texture is large enough compared to the drawing’s detail resolution to feel a little distracting to me. I do love how the tooth did encourage me to let the underpainting in red show through more though! Something to think about.
Overall though I think my professional gouache work will be at a much larger scale though so probably worth moving on and testing other papers.
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