I'm touching my gouache colors for the first time in years, I am legally required to fill a sheet with dark green first before deciding what to paint, correct?

"I'm just painting some flowers in a medium i dont know, how bad can it be?"
Getting humbled in real time rn

Digital artist tries water-based medium, dies

#TraditionalArt #MastoArt #Gouache

This was dreadful, I should do another one right away

Averil ✒️ DoomBloomArt

@doombloomart@mastoart.social

Second try today

In hindsight i should've maybe read up a few basics instead of just reaching for supplies and improvising. You can see pretty clearly that I'm struggling with opacity, viscosity and also paint mixing, but for yolo paintings I'm quite happy with both 😅

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #Gouache

March 15, 2026 at 6:29:48 PM
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Takeaways today: working from dark to light is oddly satisfying, definitely need to practice paint mixing because real pigment behaves very different from digital color mixing, need to read some basics of gouache and how to handle it

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