Original artwork description:

This is a Gouache painting of the view from one of the coves in my all-time favorite places to visit and set-up my plain air easel and paint on location - Point Lobos near Carmel-by-the-Sea in California.
This one was painted from memory and many on-location studies I have done there over the years. My attraction to this scene was the clear light and the beautiful colors of the ocean, ranging from turquoise closer to the shore to dark blue father away.

Materials used to create this artwork:
Gouache on Fredrix Archival Watercolor Canvas Board.

Gouache is very closely related to watercolor. It uses the same gum Arabic binder, but has more pigment which is not ground as finely as watercolor. Gouache can be rendered opaque through two different formulation approaches. The first, and most commonly used, is through the addition of opacifiers like calcium carbonate or titanium dioxide or other things. The result is greater opacity, but the clarity and intensity of the color is compromised, sometimes quite appreciably. I use several gouache brands, like Holbein, Winsor&Newton, and Schmincke. All of these manufacturers do not add any opacifiers, but use pigments that tend to be naturally opaque and load the formulation so heavily with pigment that opacity is the result.

The painting is framed in a white synthetic lightweight wall-mounting photo frame, 5/8" width, 5/8" depth, with hanging hardware included, and is ready to hang.

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Materials used:

gouache, watercolor canvas board

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