Small gouache paintings

I have been painting with gouache and getting quite excited about its possibilities, I was working on a commissioned watercolour when the client decided that they would prefer an opaque version, I suggested and did an opaque watercolour, which they loved, and the next time i was overseas in an art supply store I bought a few tubes of gouache to play with. I now have a full supply of my usual watercolour pallette. Their is not a lot of information around on how to use the  medium but very useful manual has been “Gouache for illustration” by Ron Howard and i have been playing around with it ever since. These are all on 8″x 6″ multimedia board, some with acrylic gesso on the board and some with the boards plain surface. I haven’t yet decided which I prefer. My larger  gouache pieces tend to be more watercolour like.

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