gouache

April has truly started off on a high note: 3 days of warm weather (a rare occurrence in an early Chicago spring), I finally did double-backs to the floor at gymnastics, found out I won a few art contests, and I got my first COVID vaccine! It's nice to have things starting to work out, even if it is just temporarily.

Illustration from the sketchbook in gouache, based on a color palette.

mixed media in watercolor sketchbook

Gouache in my sketchbook.

This piece is in a style that, I think, is very different from how I usually drawn or paint. I had bought myself a set of acrylic gouache paints, and I wanted to do something to test them out since I'd never used them before. (I'm definitely not the type of person who sees something new and buys it for the heck of it, but here we are..) I will say, I'm happy I bought them. If anyone has these paints and can share any tips on using them, it would be greatly appreciated!

I stated with a rough pencil sketch then inked it with a brush pen and colored it with watercolor and gouache on a watercolor postcard. Reference I used was this excellent photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/tree-wild-squirrel-monkey-97827/ photo by Mike from Pexels.com

Acrylagouache and acrylic on a 7x7cm canvas.

All yellow, apart from the bits of green. This one was done with gouache, watercolours and coloured pencil.

Gouache in my Royal Talens sketchbook.

A little grid of gouache paintings. I'm going to make these into stickers!

Practicing portraits

The process of getting to know ourselves. I painted this using Himi Miya Gouache.

Gouache on watercolour paper

Inside front cover. The foreword to the Journey Journal. Black ink and white gouache on toned paper. A4. Zines and postcards available to purchase.

Watercolour, Gouache and coloured pencil on drawing paper.

Lavender field, 6x6” watercolour and gouache on paper _ Hope you like this :) for more artwork follow me on my instagram @euny.kim_ Thanks!!

Inktober Day 4: Radio. A quick paint/doodle while talking with a good friend. Today was decent. Hoping for a better week this time around. "From the end of the world to your town."

Experimentation with mixed media of gouache, high flow acrylics, alcohol ink and Polychromos pencils.

Painted with gouache on mixed media paper.

Watercolour pencils and gouache on A4. I did this today at a Urban Sketchers meet up in the National Museum of Scotland - although, I guess, strictly speaking it does not fulfil the urban sketching requirements :D

I tried himi miya gouache. And I love the colors.

Just a dog under a bed. Attempt using gouache. Help!

This colorful painting was created using gouache paint to give an illustrative design feel. The subject is a cow painted using non-local colors like pink and violet, contrasting the orange sky background. I love the small clover flower the cow appears to be smelling in the foreground of this piece. For more in my gallery, please visit ArtsyDrawings.com!

Fooling around with the #mermay prompts and gouache.

Journey Journal pages 3 and 4. An illuminated collage of introspectionism from my travels through Osaka and Kyoto, Japan.

Journey Journal, page 11. London. Watercolour, ink and gouache on toned recycled paper. Postcards and zines available for purchase.

I have no mouth and I must scream! ink, watercolour, gouache and gold leaf on paper, 75x50cm, 2020, POA. Another artwork created in lockdown. A reflection of and introspection into thoughts and feeling of living during a pandemic.

A cartographic representation of the experience of moving to a new city in a foreign land. This work, dubbed as 'Introspectionism', provides the viewer with a snapshot over time of the inner workings of the process of the strange becoming slowly more familiar and the foreign becoming Home.