Original artwork description:

This artwork was inspired by the colorful California coastline in Big Sur, traveling North towards Carmel-by-the-Sea on Highway 1, with the Bixby Bridge view.

It is a small 6"x6" painting in gouache on Ampersand Aquaboard archival panel. An archival, acid-free textured clay surface that absorbs watercolors and gouache like a fine paper, Aquabord allows colors to retain their purity and vibrancy in a way that even the finest watercolor papers can't match.
Its unique surface is perfect for watercolors and gouache, needs no stretching, and will not tear, shrink, or buckle.

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 and Winsor&Newton. Both 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 protected with a coat of archival varnish, which allows it to be framed without glass.

Framed. Ready to hang.

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Materials used:

gouache, Ampersand aqua board, panel

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