Original artwork description:

This is a gouache painting of a coastal scene in Pacific Grove, California.
My attraction to this scene was the colors and shapes of the cliffs, as well as the atmospheric effects provided by a marine layer, which is an air mass which develops over the surface of a large body of water such as the ocean.

Materials used to create this artwork:
Gouache on Cold Press 140 lbs paper on laminated 5"x7" sheet.

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 unframed and will require a frame to display on the wall. It will fit in a standard (USA) 5"x7" frame. You can frame it with or without glass, since the surface is protected with a couple of layers of archival varnish.

Images showing the artwork framed in home interiors are for presentation of potential framing ideas only. Frame is not included.

Kindly note that not all in-context (in a room) pictures provide a true sense of scale of artwork. Please refer to listing size: 5"x7" unframed.

Materials used:

gouache, cold press paper, laminated sheet, archival varnish

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