Landscape Impression 1- gouache painting by Marion Hedger

This is an ongoing project to extend my knowledge of gouache. I have always enjoyed those ethereal watercolour paintings that suggest the information. As I was playing around with the gouache I wondered if I could achieve that effect with gouache. Here is my first painting in the series:

 Landscape impression I  by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board

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I coated the canvas with a ground of dark orangey coloured acrylic.  Then roughly mapped in the design with the gouache and gave it a spritz with water, turning the support now and again to let the paint run but generally letting it go where it wanted to.  I then worked back into it, ocassionally spritzing again. In the final pass I tried to recapture some of the highlights as these had sunk into the support and some areas were qute dull where the paint had run. It was difficult to know how much reworking to do and how much could be achieved with gouache. When finished I varnished it with spray acrylic gloss varnish which lifted some of the dulled colours.

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