Art Haul - Holbein Gouache vs Acryla Gouache - Swatching, Painting & Review

[@gingerbower8396]

Thanks for this! I just got started with Guache watercolors HIMI so this helps me ! I am looking forward to working with them now.😀

[@ritawilbur6128]

I just recently started experimenting with acrylic gouache. A tip I saw in a video (don't remember whose!) is to wet a paper towel and squeeze it out. Lay it in your tray, then lay a piece of baking parchment paper on top. This works really well as a homemade stay wet palette. I tried the same thing with palette paper instead, but i found that didn't work as well. I think James Gurney puts the paint directly on the damp paper towel, but I really liked how the parchment paper worked. Anyway, those sets look stunning, and your color choices for you paintings - branching out from your usual colors, and I am SO HERE FOR IT! Absolutely gorgeous!

[@rnkim2564]

thanks for info... I'm a regular acrylic paints painter... I use them on multiple surfaces, wood, canvas usually for larger pieces but also papers, often a cheaper watercolor paper ( saving my $$$$ arches for transparent watercolors) or even gessoed paper that I put behind glass frames works very nicely... I prefer watercolors for transparent but if I want a combo of transparent to opaque, I just use regular acrylics and buy in larger tubes or jars various brands, liquitex, Utrecht, holbien and other... Will you please explain why I would even WANT TO buy these little expensive tubes of acryla gouche if they seem to have the same properties of opaque, layering, non lift permanent film once dry, water mix.... is the ONLY difference maybe a matte quality? I'm confused about what makes these tiny tubes of seeming ACRYLIC paints so special... I cant imagine how far a tube would go when using on a larger piece??? why are these so special if they dry to a permanent layer just like acrylics? thanks

[@ritawilbur6128]

@@rnkim2564 Well, basically you're right: acrylic gouache is not a variation of acrylic paint. You would never use it for very large paintings. It's usually used for smaller pieces, like illustrations. Rather, acrylic gouache is a variation of gouache, which is a variation of watercolor. Gouache is made opaque by a very high concentration of pigment, higher than what is used in either watercolor or acrylic. So a little goes a long way. It is also designed to dry very matte and even, so that you can't really get textured brush strokes with it. Jerry's Artarama has a great video called Gouache vs. Acryl Gouache that explains all this very well, and also compares regular acrylic and matte acrylic paints. So in short, acrylic gouache is not at all a substitute for acrylic paint the way it sounds like you use it. The benefit of using acrylic gouache for gouache users is that it cannot be reactivated when it dries. Traditional gouache is tricky because it is very easily reactivated when you layer it.

[@JohnSmith-xb4ux]

A nice review of the two sets , side by side, the colors are awesome. I think ultimately you could combine the two and it would last at some extent, later on you would probably find things such as layers exfoliate, because acryla will be impermeable once it dries, while normal gouache will be permeable. Thank you for review, pretty hair lady 😊😊

[@Chidera.m]

Welcome back!! I don't have a favourite but loved this video!

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@ChantelleArts]

These look so stunning, I love it ☺☺

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Thank you so much Chantelle x

[@TheMessyDeskxyz]

You can peel acrylic gouache when it’s dried off flat surfaces, so using things like a ceramic palette with it is no issue! And welcome back! I was definitely surprised to see this video up!

[@awatercolourist]

I love the desert painting.

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Thank you so much awatercolourist x

[@bizzybee852]

I really enjoyed this video. I prefer regular gouache over acrylic gouache, because I found the acrylic gouache just dries too fast for me. The first gouache I ever bought was about a year ago, I bought a set of the Turner acryla gouache. I chose the Turner acryla gouache after doing a lot of research because it was fairly inexpensive for an artist quality gouache. I started out with acrylic gouache, because, like you said in the video, it was a lot less expensive than regular gouache. And I wanted to make sure that if I didn't like painting with gouache, or I wasn't good at it, I would know that the problem wasn't that I was using cheap quality paints.

[@xlonestar]

traditional gouache! i like flexibility in my paintings because i often change my mind 😅 and welcome back! i miss watching your videos 🥰

[@laattardo]

I haven't used guache. I really like the waterfall piece.

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Thank you ❤️

[@jessicapp2545]

Thanks for being back and sharing your experience with us. I use gouache and did order some acrylic gouache last week. It’s still in the mail. So can’t tell what I would prefer.

[@pamsmart1986]

This video was really helpful. Besides just starting to experiment with gouache and acrylic gouache, I am really new to painting in general. Lol! I learned a lot. Thank you so much! By the way, your paintings are lovely especially the waterfall.

[@pagewhite61]

This was extremely helpful, thank you.

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and the encouragement x

[@maryannprzybycien2013]

I have two of their Iridori sets and a standard set of twelve gouache. To me, a lot of the pigments they use doesn't justify the price of the paint that I'll only use in sketchbooks. The only acrylic gouache I have is Turner and I do like it. Sometimes, if I mess up something I'm working on, I'll paint over it with acrylic gouache (as a background), then paint over that with regular gouache. I really enjoy doing that. ❤

[@awatercolourist]

I missed this 😢. Oh, well! Can’t exactly get rid of work 😂.

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Thanks for dropping by - hope work is okay x

[@lindacarlson8515]

I so relate to this statement 🤣

[@SketchesnScrubs]

@@lindacarlson8515 haha x

[@awatercolourist]

@@lindacarlson8515 😂😂

[@lindacarlson8515]

Love the paintings and how you did your swatches! Would you recommend a couple of brush brands/ sizes to use with gouache? I’m wondering if my issue with painting with gouache is related to softness of the brushes I’m using - well besides skill lol. Thank you.

[@nancylemon4120]

GOUACHE!!

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

I'm not sure I can decide between the two! I guess it depends on what I'm painting and what style I'm going for.

[@akschauer]

My preference is for regular gouache, but I think that's mainly because I'm not super comfortable with acrylics in general. I have a small set of Holbein gouache, though, and haven't had the easiest time using it, so maybe my preference is neither. 🤣🤷

[@themightierpencil]

Gonna reiterate what I said in the chat, but that waterfall is divine

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Awww thank you so much The Mightier Pencil

[@derwood206]

Now you need to try an Irodori set. Autumn will soon be here :)

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Loool I'm still tempted but will hold strong until I make a dent in these / get a few colours x

[@derwood206]

@@SketchesnScrubs ha they will go on super sale some day for sure. Enjoy the Holbein. I use my schmimcke and Holbein together a lot

[@artistmcbrown98902]

Try Princeton Umbria series for gouache or acrylics. And nice to meet another Christian Artist.

[@lindahumphries6309]

I accidentally bought acrylic gouache and I hate it!

[@SketchesnScrubs]

Oh no Linda! Which brand was it? If it’s outside the return window, it may be worth checking out Facebook groups / art memberships / eBay to swap or sell it (one man’s trash is another man’s treasure) x x

[@godzandheros]

if I'm spending that kind of money, I'd want my paint to be lightfast because why would I get this set when I can get the jelly gouache set for a fraction of the price? it seems crazy that a professional brand would sell a set that contains so many paints with pigments that aren't lightfast 🫠 my fave gouache is definitely winsor and newton but I use daniel smith as well since they have pigments that w&n doesn't include in their gouache line and vice versa. I've tried mgraham when a site was getting rid of their stock and bought them on a steep discount and they are terrible and would not recommend. I also have the 36 set of the gouache watercolor hybrid paints from mission gold that I really need to play with more and test out but like holbein, they are multi pigment blends and have a lot of non lightfast pigments in them (i bought it before I knew everything I know now about pigments and lightfastness 💀) /tangent

[@derwood206]

Curating your own set with their individual tubes would be the way to go with Holbein and you could definitely do it! When I started to paint with gouache (also W&N) I learned it was a medium used by graphic artists and designers who photographed their work and so lightfastness in the original wasn’t an issue. But that’s not to say if you want to sell your originals then you can’t find lightfast gouache. It’s out there. I agree too that Daniel Smith is definitely selling mostly lightfast gouache tubes.