Played With Paints Tonight

    My two football teams both lost today-and Mahomes left injured-I was hoping that the Packers would win over the Denver Broncos but one can't win throwing interceptions. These two teams would be a good match in the super bowl though-I remember the last super bowl these teams played each other.  I lived in Denver for awhile back when they won the super bowl probably the '80s or late '70s-that was really fun to live in the city that wins the super bowl. They played in the super bowl again when Favre was their quarterback-I was rooting for either team to win haha.

  I have never painted with gouache and wanted to try it-the watercolor gouache not the acrylic. I asked one of my slow mail friends about brands and the one she suggested was expensive for me-I don't know what I am doing yet- just playing with paints haha but am saving the brand name for future reference..  

   My go to is Winsor Newton and I have been happy with their student grade paints-so I found a small tube set on Amazon and since it was such a good sale bought two packages.

  These are bolder paints than I am used to so I will play around more to subdue the colors.  I almost wasn't going to share this as it is not great especially my little mountain cabin-I will play with that some more tomorrow.

  A few yeas ago I started out with acrylic paints-those were too bold too for me I still have those paints as swell.

  In this painting, I used gouache, watercolors, and watercolor inks all by Winsor Newton.

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The bolder colors are the gouache, the little patch of tan is watercolor, and the red flowers and the white flowers in the green mound is watercolor ink.

  I used my glass dip pen for the ink. I will go back in tomorrow and do something with the little cabin and add more white ink to the flowers in the grass.  

  I am thinking since I don't care to have white showing-I need to choose a light paint color to cover the whole page-let dry and then paint.  I don't usually have a plan at all when I create. I wanted to play with the new paint gouache and ended up with a mountain looking over a stream.

  Have a good night and enjoy your new week ahead.