a new little painting

New colors for me.
Finally.
I got tired of no light pink and no pale, pastel cerulean blue.

Pronounciation:
suh • roo • lee • uhn bloo

Word origin:
Latin: caelum = sky

I'm trying some acrylics. Fast and bright.

It's a little trickier than I thought because there is not quite enough time to mix. Even gouache gives more time to mix before drying.

The term gouache refers to a category of paint, an opaque watercolor. However, not all gouache colors are equally opaque; in fact, some are perfectly transparent. The important distinction between gouache and traditional watercolor is how opacity is a central issue in color mixtures. The gouache painter depends on mixing directly with white paint to create each hue, as opposed to the traditional watercolorist's conservative use of the white of the paper as the source of all whites in the picture created from layers of completely transparent paint. The difference is that where the surface of watercolor is determined by the texture of the paper, gouache imparts its own weight and surface to the painting, ranging from thick and chalky to velvety smooth.

I love gouache, I can actually feel the pigments as I swish the paint around, and white comes back with more paint. I tend to lose white.

Watercolorists amaze me...each stroke is final...they start lightly rather than diving right in.

At least I'm painting.