 their entrance though I think I've never changed this chair because last time it was squeaking so much and it annoyed me Okay, better chair. Well, I have reached a thousand subscribers Which is insane because I had a hundred subs in January and I was like wow I've reached a hundred people and now I've reached 1,050 a little out of breath from moving the chair I'm really unfit. That's a bit cringe, isn't it? I'm gonna I'm gonna breathe 1,000 subscribers This channel has really kind of surpassed all my expectations So if you're a new sub or if you're an old sub that's always been supporting me and watching me Thanks very much. Honestly, this is so cool and I'm really excited to see where we can go together Stop Mmm, right. Well, I've got something exciting today and I was thinking now I'll just reveal it to you, but it's obviously in the title. So you already know I'm gonna try gouache gouache gouache Gua, gouache I'm gonna call it gouache. I have never painted with gouache before even though It is supposed to be Gigi's eating What is this? He knows that I'm doing this. I swear We'll just wait for his majesty. I have heard it's been referred to the child of watercolor and acrylic Acrylic we know dry is kind of like a plastic. So you cannot reactivate it with water Watercolors are you use a lot of water with them and they dry you can't you can kind of reactivate them But not really but these ones basically once they're dry You can go over them again with water and you can use a lot of water to make them more watery Coloury or not that much water to make them very Pigmented and thick like acrylic and I don't know why I've never tried them before because I love watercolors And when I was younger acrylic was primary paint that I used all the time having It will combination of both is really cool And I've always wanted to try them so and as a reward for reaching 1000 subscribers We got some we got me some gouache And let's take a little look at these little bad boys Shall we and we've got a free one as well bonus paint. Oh My gosh, look at them so fine Oh, yeah, oh boy. Oh boy. Oh It comes with a pamphlet These are 45 colors that it doesn't come with so thank thanks for that. I guess so let's try some out Because I'm a professional artist, I Don't have a palette for paints. So I'm gonna use just this some Terracotta ball thing and then maybe make some paints and I can reactivate stuff when I need to blob Spectrum of the color wheel. Oh, that was that's a thick boy I'm actually looking forward to using white as a highlight thing because obviously they're super opaque So you can just build them up What I wanted to do was work from lights to darks like I would normally do with Watercolors, then I just wanted to try out like how it would layer and kind of how opaque those Lighter tones would be on top of like dark ones. Obviously. This is all nonsense. So It's just messing around really. Hello, everybody. It's time for voice over Steph So what I was doing here is I'm recreating a old painting that is in my sketchbook because I thought it would Be easier to do that than to just kind of do something completely new because it's medium I haven't worked in before so it would be better to just kind of rely on an old drawing that I knew That I liked a little bit. Here. I am just deciding what color her hair should be I was thinking for a long time that I was gonna keep it just white as per the original illustration But then I thought hey, we've got wash and yes, I think I said that correctly this time Well, we've got gouache So it's time to do something a little bit different and I wanted to really try out like skin tones and hair colors and Do those kind of really opaque colors that gouache is known for it turned out quite good I quite liked it at the end of this video I'm kind of down on myself but I think it's because I must have been tired because I actually like the way this came out a lot more now looking back on it and I'm pretty proud of it considering that I've considered it quite a stiff learning curve to begin with I'm just used to the paint just easily flowing whereas this medium is rigid sometimes obviously when you don't add the water to it, but I think it really worked this piece. I definitely wanted you more I want to do some like underwater studies, maybe different things I think I've spoken a lot already about like the medium So there's not much more left to say on that but just re-creating these plants and Having fun with the paints. I did that giant moon blob in the sky And it kind of just looks like it's growing out of that or it's just stuck on that tree there So I don't know why I did that. I don't mind it in the end. It looks all right because I kind of blend it out Well is blending the right term. I just I add a lot of brush marks around it in the end So I go over and do more detail around the girl's face and stuff I think it looks like her arms are kind of being chopped off a little bit So I wish I had painted those a little bit better But I think the skin the skin tone I was really struggling with at first because I was thinning it out too much So it's just becoming like this runny mass on the paper and I was like what am I doing? This isn't gonna turn out as well as I hope but when it dries the paint dries much lighter And that was something that I had seen somebody speak about before but I hadn't really considered Until I had put it into practice myself So the skin tone looked a lot murkier beforehand and then it dried really nice like light pink So I think there's something to keep in mind if you try to wash in the future Is that everything is going to be a little bit brighter and apparently the dark and dry darker I'm not really sure how that works. So here's the final project. Okay all finished It's kind of longer than expected. It was a very steep learning curve I wanted to repaint this because I just wanted to try out wash and see if I could recreate it It was a massive learning curve even though I used to paint a lot with acrylics when I was younger I don't know I think I obviously prefer watercolors because those are the medium I use but I really I liked using them I definitely use them For more stuff in the future and tell me what you guys think do you like this? I don't know. Oh artsy shot of my palette. It's not really a palette, but you know, I was moved out my chair for one second One second So after a few hours later, that's the end of my first try at wash Let me know what you guys thought. I think you turned out pretty well That's it really so let me know what you guys think and please like and subscribe for more and I will see you next time