How do you control water when painting gouache?

Don't add too much water to it when mixing pigments, if it's too thin, it will be too thin, first spread a large area when the relationship can be thin, and then when painting details to find a part, it is best to use pure pigments to pave it. Don't be too economical with paint, and prepare an absorbent cloth to dry the brush after washing.

Prepare a useless towel to absorb the excess water on the pen, but I don't think the towel is the best, the best absorbent towel I have ever used is the kind of portable paper towel that is pressed into a small cake size and melts into a woven towel when it encounters water, it will not be broken, it can be used for a long time, and a small piece is very useful.

Just try not to get too much water. It's habit. I also painted very thinly, and the colors were very bright at the time, but when the painting dried, the effect was greatly reduced. Remember to keep it in water.

Dip sparingly in water. The painting is too thin", from this point it can be seen that your color tone is too even, which is a big taboo in gouache painting.

When you draw, put a rag next to it!

Practice more in other places.

Scribble on top of other paper.

The techniques and methods of gouache painting are as follows:

In the process of making gouache paintings, most of the colors need to be mixed on the palette before entering the picture. The amount of water and white pink used in the mixing of colors is a question of expression techniques and the characteristics of gouache painting.

Watercolor painting simply uses water toning to control the thickness of the pigment, so as to produce a change in brightness, and uses the dryness and wetness of the water color to obtain the special expressive effect of watercolor painting through the infiltration or reset of the color. Oil painting uses toning oil and white to control the thickness and brightness of the color.

Gouache, somewhere in between, can be thinned with water to make the paint translucent, so that the brightness of the white paper can also penetrate the layer. Moisture makes the color thicker, and the thickness produces a change in brightness, which will exert a permeable effect like watercolor, which is the thin painting method in gouache painting.

If you use the thick painting method in oil painting to make gouache paintings, you have to use less water and use more pigment and white to increase the thickness and brightness of the color. However, although the thin painting method of gouache uses a lot of water, it is impossible to achieve the artistic effect of watercolor painting that is lively, bright, smooth, and dripping with water.

Problems that tend to arise in gouache:

1. The picture is virtual and real.

In fact, there is no fixed statement in the picture, according to the needs of the picture, according to the overall picture, let the middle call hold the law of near real and far virtual, it is generally OK, when painting, it is bold, the real place must be real, don't be afraid of the place where you need to paint, be decisive, the picture is strong and weak, so that the picture will be flexible.

2. Pay attention to the "dirty" and "stuffy" problems of the picture.

The problems of the picture being too "dirty" and "stuffy" are actually caused by improper use of color. Think these problems are easy to solve, when toning to a color-based, the pen is clean and neat, when washing the pen to check whether it is clean, the brush to avoid too much moisture. Use bold colors, combined with the inherent color of the object, the color of the light source, the environmental color, etc.