After an oil painting trip to Venice, where I spent two hours looking for a hardware shop to buy white spirit as I could not take it with me on an aeroplane (my preferred quick-drying oil painting medium was disguised in my hold luggage and I had to convince airport security that the flashpoint of my oil paint tubes was above regulation)
I made a few decisions. I would take everything in a 10kg carry-on case (saving c£60 on hold luggage) and no more air travel with oils. But I’m an oil painter at heart so the hunt was on for a compromise.
Gouache has huge benefits for the travelling artist. It’s odourless, waterbased (no medium required) and dries within minutes. It can be applied thinly in very much the same application as watercolour, so choosing a support is a breeze. Most importantly for me, in the latter stages it can be applied in the same style as oil painting – thick and juicy – but with the added advantage that you can apply dark over light or vice versa (not too thickly or it will crack). The fat-over-lean oil rule does not apply. And whereas watercolours are applied from light to dark, gouache has no such bind, which is very liberating.
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