Plein Air 2 - Gouache Experiments

A whole day in the New Forest, quite soon after the initial attempt back in July.

These are the results, scanned from an A3 sketchbook:


I'm presenting these next images cropped and uncropped so you can see the difference. After these messy edges I made sure to get some masking tape for future experiments.






Still struggling with blurriness, needing to use a smaller brush for the finer details.

I've got to give full credit to James Gurney (Dinotopia man) for the inspiration to get back into gouache as a medium. His YouTube channel is pretty remarkable - lots of informative videos about gouache/oil painting.

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