Painting 33

Ref 1092.-  Spattering paint to suggest rain through opaque watercolor
                 (gouache over Stardream black color paper - 105 lb)

Some words about opaque watercolor (gouache) 

Gouache can be diluted with water and applied in semi-transparent layers. Used thick, it is opaque and covers well, so unlike watercolor, you can work from dark to light, adding lighter areas last. You can also make changes easily and cover up mistakes with another layer. I find it useful for adding highlights to watercolors
Watercolor allows the artist to apply thin washes, or layers of color, building a surface of color one layer at a time. Gouache, on the other hand, can come in a small tube or as a pan (like watercolor), can be thinned (like watercolor) but even when it is thinned has a different characteristic to it. The opacity of gouache grants you certain things that watercolor won't, and vise versa.
By far the easiest and fastest way to answer the question (but not nearly the most comprehensive) is that gouache is just an opaque form of watercolor
Keep in mind that although gouache can be watered down to appear more transparent, it will not granulate (appear mottled or speckled) like watercolor and will dry to a more matte finish

The following exercise, is made just with gouache (black, White, blue, and a bit of orange and yellow)
Paper is Stardream black colored  weigth 105 lbs.
You need an old tooth brush and round brushes
Artistic varnish

This is the result regarding this project


sprays fixative on gouache, but she finds that it darkens the values significantly, so she must paint lighter in anticipation of this effect

 Main Steps; In same paper I made some previous testing to verify if ideas will work all together
Please do so, to gain confidence for spattering color, with your tooth brush

1st Step.- Sketch the idea having in mind first the background, with some colors on it to avoid just a black and White result

 

 

 2nd step.-  Before gouache application dry I start to conform vertical lines (rain drops) with the help  of a toothpick

 

 

3rd Step.- By my previous tests, I found that the paint breaks better above a varnish surface, so once I´m happy with the background idea, I apply artistic varnish all over the painting, take advantage of the gravity to paint everything in a inclined  position and let it dry completely

 

 

4th Step.- I also found that the best way for spattering fine drops is to wet the tooth brush and then with my fingers put the painting as deep as possibleon it. because in the surface spattering drops are big but when the painting is inside the spattering drops are more fine, do it by áreas to avoid painting become dry in order you can make lines with the toothpick

 

 

 

5th Step.- To make the rain drops even better now with a fine round brush reafirm some of the black lines base in what is at the background, and spatter now black color with the toothbrush and more fine lines with the toothpick

 

 

 

6th Step.- Let it dry completely before repaint the black figure and the blue umbrela. and add some random colors around, this will lead us to a matte finish again, but once you be satisfied repeat the varnish addition to uniform the final wet appearance

 

 

 Note Regarding the spattering process.-  don´t over do it;  to avoid stains within the paint