Acrylic Gouache: What, why and how

Technique Tuesday
Written By Alison Board

If I haven’t had the chance yet, a very Happy New Year to you all, I hope that 2025 brings you peace and creativity.
We had a pretty quiet Christmas, there’s nothing my husband and I like more than what we call ‘bimbling’, just doing our thing in our own time without the pressures of ‘having to’ - we get more done this way I think…

And so, without fail, Technique Tuesday returns for a new year and an unusual one for the start of things, Acrylic Gouache. You may not have heard of it and so this demo hopes to show you what can be achieved and for what they are worth, my opinions on it. A huge thanks to Robina for posing this question in the first place, she has been waiting a long time for me to get to it!

Keep the questions coming in and do tune in to the chat on YouTube either live or archived afterwards so you can see what the Learning to Paint community was discussing. There’s a poll over on my social media channels asking what you would like answered in 2025, you can find it HERE in my Facebook group (you may want to join) so do feel free to get involved and have your say, I look forward to reading the suggestions.

After the broadcast has gone live you will be able to watch it back below, do leave me a question in the comments either here or on YouTube and I will look forward to you all joining in, in the future, Ali

Alison Board
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