{"id":1734,"date":"2019-03-21T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:02:54","slug":"gouache-pitt-pens-by-jess-aldridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/2019\/03\/21\/gouache-pitt-pens-by-jess-aldridge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOUACHE & PITT PENS by Jess Aldridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my March product of the month I wanted to create\nsomething with a splash of colour as I was feeling the spring vibe that came\nwith the sunshine we had at the beginning of the month! Gouache paint sprung to\nmind! In my free time I create little illustrations using the paint for its\nvibrancy, fluidity, and opacity, which means you can build up layers of it. Being\na lover of bold colours and an indecisive painter, I love it!  It offers the intensity of colour that you get\nwith acrylics but can be a lot smoother and free flowing depending on how much\nwater you add to it! It is also similar to acrylic in that, if you decide later\non you want to add in other details or make any little accidents that you want\nto change, you can go over what is already there once it\u2019s dry. This works best\nwhen layered on thick with little water. You may find you need to go over and\nbuild up the layers to stop the paint absorbing into the background; this is\nwhere gouache is water based but because it has solid white pigment in the\ningredients to improve its opacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To enhance features of the drawing, I come in with fineliner\npens over the top; however I have always found that some are quick to ruin when\nused on gouache in comparison to use on their own, or on a watercolour\npainting. I was introduced to the Faber Castell Pitt pens, which contain Indian\nink and was pleasantly surprised at how well they work on gouache in bringing\nthe drawing to life! Because of their softer tip, they flow well on the gouache\nwith no damage to the pen or painting, no matter how many layers of paint has\nbeen built up. Unlike fineliners, which although are wonderful for creating\npieces with fine details and an easy option for pen and ink drawings as opposed\nto a dip pen, they can be too harsh on gouache; which having a creamy, powdery consistency\ncan cause the dry paint to crumble and flake off the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the painting, I used the Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin in size\n3 and the Winsor & Newton Cotman brush in size 1, which were perfect to\nfill majority of the piece and paint grass strands and flowers, but to finish\nthe rabbit and other finer details I needed something much daintier. For this I\nused the Da Vinci Nova Synthetic brush in a size 3\/0, which was great for\nproducing hair-like results and made finishing the rabbit\u2019s face very easy too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To highlight, I simply used a white Jellyroll pen. They are\nmy go to choice of gel pen as I find they flow so well compared to most brands\nand create a purer white line as well. \nThey also come in many other colours which can all be great for\nhighlights too.  All this combined with\nthe matte and radiant finish of gouache makes the end piece look almost\ndigital, meaning that if you wanted to enhance it digitally you could do so\nquite easily without worry of light reflection on the paint from your scanner! But\neven without doing so you would still have a wonderful, flamboyant illustration\nor painting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my March product of the month I wanted to create something with a splash of colour as I was feeling the spring vibe that came with the sunshine we had at the beginning of the month! Gouache paint sprung to mind! In my free time I create little illustrations using the paint for its … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techniques"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Deer-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}