Tag Archives: gouache

Anddd We’re Back! With One Grumpy Cat!

Rumors of my dimise have been greatly exaggerated. I’m still here! And in perfect time for her birthday (today, Apritl 4th), here’s Tarder Sauce AKA Grumpy Cat! She’s so cute and grumpy. Like me, but in cat form. Just kidding. I’m not so cute and fluffy. This was a lot of fun to work on, especially [...]

October Cats!: Part One

Yay! More cats! This time it’s Venus, the Chimera cat! Actually, according to this National Geographic article, it might not actually be chimerism, which is what happens when two embryos fuse together giving the animal (or person) two different sets of DNA, but whatever the cause might be, you can’t deny that this is one stunning feline. [...]

A Couple of Cats

  Hello all! After finishing the last round of bigger paintings I’d been working on, I’ve now moved on to a series of smaller pieces that I have plans for. It involves doing paintings of cats that I like from all over the place, like books and movies and real life. I’m thinking it’ll become [...]

Stencil Cat

Painting 25 of 30: Stencil Cat This is what I was working on last night, that I messed up on so badly. I was using a stencil to outline a cat shape and then use watercolors to color it in, but I didn’t wait for the paper to all the way so of course it [...]

Abstract #1

Painting 17 of 30: Abstract #1 Still practicing using gouache by doing some patterns. It’s hard because I still don’t now how much or how little of a color I’m going to need so I either end up with not enough paint or to much which goes to waste. I think I might try to [...]

A Colorful Landscape

Painting 2 of 30: Experiments in Gouache I’ve been wanting to play around with gouache for a while now, so here is my first attempt at it. I learned a lot just from this little painting, like if you accidentally drop you’re paintbrush on it, you can’t just wipe it off like on an acrylic [...]