So I did another art challenge. I found some cheap art supplies at my local Pop Shelf which is essentially a fancier dollar store. I was really impressed that they had gouache paints and watercolor pencils..but mainly the gouache paints.
because professional gouache as it is is hard to find outside the internet. I mentioned elsewhere but I have a local custom framing store that sells art supplies to like..college kids..and this framing store holds your normal Bob Ross level professional paints. They have the oil paints and the old crusty papers and canvases. Its not your hobby shop like hobby lobby or michaels. But even they have like 5 tubes of regular gouache and they been sittin' there a while. Rust on them. Packaging looks 15 years old. You're lucky to live near a Blick and get you holbein acrylic gouache but even good luck finding just gouache gouache...so I was really curious about these cheap paints.
I mean there wasn't really a high expectation it was just curiousity..because why gouache? watercolors and acrylic I get..but..why..gouache!?!?
they did suck lmao. I did struggle quite a bit but I managed to successfully do a thing. I got as far as I could which was majority of base colors before I cheated and went back to my regular art supplies to do some last ditch smoothing and final touches. She came out cuter than expected.
Especially because this was kind of like..a reject..sketch. I didn't want to ruin something I actually liked with crap paints but I also just..didn't..like this drawing. What I wanted to actually do was something else but it would have been really monochromatic and I didn't think that was going to be a sufficient paint test. So kitty and birds I think I used almost every color.