Gouache in my sketchbook

love the bottom-left one

Your butts are nice.

😆

Thank you!

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.

Gorgeous.

Beautiful studies! The first one looks especially juicy, just the way a succulent should be!

I love these! Is that aquarium soil for your Nepenthes?

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 😅

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.

Thank you!

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? 😅

Wow love it! Such a cool ornate copper pot! You should do a study of that one! Lots of intricate detail to explore!

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!