Iris Impression – Painting of the Week

Melting the Gouache

The 10 inches of snow that fell in Fargo was not the perfect welcome home. Instead, I focused on the plants my sister Darin and I are starting and finished Iris Impression. It is an abstract of Iris started at my gouache demo this past February. The White Iris stood out in front of the Violet blooms. Being a bulb plant, the Iris bloom after the tulips and continue the joy of spring color.

Gouache melts differently than ice. It is a gouache technique that helps you to softly blend together two colors side by side into a unified shape. Melting Gouache paint, “opaque watercolor”, is quite different from blending watercolor on the paper. Despite gouaches “opaque qualities”, layers will naturally melt into the one below changing the color and with minimal transparency. To melt gouache as a technique, use a damp brush and blend shapes together. See my quick video demonstration below.

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To melt gouache simply add a damp brush and stroke colors together:

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