Tag: Gouache Paintings

  • Catching up to 2026!

    Catching up to 2026!

    Christmas 2025 has passed and we’re now three weeks into the new year. It’s been 9 months since I last typed up a blog post, so there’s much to catch up on. I completed quite a few paintings throughout the end of 2025 and made videos for them all. Since I just mentioned Christmas: Mine…

  • April is the time when nature gets creative

    April is the time when nature gets creative

    …and I have followed her lead. Earlier this month my wife and I went to the Kenosha Public Museum to see the Kenosha Unified District Wide Student Art Show. The exhibition featured artwork from area grade school kids, elementary through high school. The exhibit was open to the public and ran for three weeks, but…

  • Canning Season

    Canning Season

    I’ve painted with transparent watercolors many times throughout my life, but I had not encountered the joy of gouache (pronounced gwash, rhymes with squash) until 2019. Gouache paints have become one of my favorite mediums to work with. I like how it adheres smoothly and evenly onto the paper. I apply my gouache to thick…