I'm going through an "animals in winter clothes" phase. I don't know what that's about, but it's making me pretty happy. Also making me happy: gouache. Love love love gouache.
Last night I was feeling pretty depressed, so I painted a bunny in earmuffs to cheer myself up. It worked! Plus it's been a while since I've done a painting with anything but watercolor, so I thought I'd try my hand at something more opaque - gouache. This is the first painting I've ever done with gouache, and I really, really loved it. It's like all the good qualities of watercolor and acrylic fused together, with none of the annoyingly fast drying time that puts me off of acrylics. I will definitely be using this medium more in the future.
The finished chickadee painting. I hate the berries, I wish I would've just left them out. But the bird was fun.
This pretty much consumed my life for the last three days. I kept putting it off because architecture is one of my least favorite things to draw, and then I had to be up until 5:30 in the morning for the last two nights to get it done. I really need to stop procrastinating, not just because of how zombie-like I feel right now, but also because once I started painting I actually quite enjoyed myself. I always do. It's the getting started part that gives me trouble.
Anyway. Ink and watercolor with touches of gouache and colored pencil on 140 lb hot press Arches paper.
