Comment on Natural Color Palette by TimBeard
I think gouache is really good for keeping you in check too since it's so reactive to what you've already put down. Plus there's no matching the purity of the pigments in gouache.
never tried gouache. I usually use acrylics. How do they compare/differ? My biggest gripe with acrylics is also their boon; the dry time.
Gouache is like an opaque watercolor that dries pretty quick. They dry to a matte finish. The color is unmatchable though. They have the highest pigment ratio of any paint that you can buy. The only down side is, like I said before, their reactivity to what you've already put down. So you have to think ahead a lot. They aren't that cheap but a tube can last a long time. I love gouache myself. Some people struggle a lot with it.
Sounds interesting. I think I might have used them before; everything turns brown in a hurry when your mixing yeah?
That sounds like my first time mixing them up.
I've tried limiting my pallet at the start of a painting, but its hard with all those pretty tubes laying around. However, the more I paint, I am using less and less variations I've noticed. I tend to stick with maybe 5 or 6 colors and mix what I need from there. I'll use a pure color that isn't anywhere else in the painting alot to pull attention where I want it to go sometimes.
Yeah. Everybody has something that works for them.