Paint A Sketchbook Cover in Acrylic Gouache

#sharoncullenart #acrylicgouache #meadow
Supplies used
Holbein Acrylic gouache
www.amazon.com/Holbein-Acryla...
KingArt synthetic golden taklon brushes
Etchr lab mixed media sketchbook

[@amyb82941]

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[@kathylarson7601]

Great to see you painting again, Sharon!

[@drbennettdc]

This turned out so beautifully. I love the colors.

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thank you n

[@franswey2]

❤😊 Thank you for sharing your painting and commentary. I appreciate you for sharing your knowledge. Your sweet Tully just become more adorable every time I see him. I’m so happy to see how you are feeling so much better and you look 20 years younger, yes you look only 10 years old!😊🥰 I love the cover painting! Fran

[@DocumentedJourney]

It’s lovely!!!

[@recreepy]

This is such an awe moment, a very beautiful piece of art

[@debbierheault6552]

Love these colors. So pretty

[@dawnkieffer6865]

The cover is beautiful. I love your color choices.

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks!

[@SabineLeppanen_Art]

Wow, that’s gorgeous, Sharon❤. Beautiful work!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks.

[@randeefoster1876]

Beautiful color combo!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks.

[@dotmorton4540]

Dot from UK I love it, it's so beautiful. You made it look so easy to paint. Thank you for sharing, lots of love from the UK, Dot x.

[@virginiabarrow1143]

I want to try that.

[@impish22]

Oh my goodness.. I have been waiting for info on how to do this.. thanks Sharon !!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Oh I’m glad it was helpful.

[@pattymcclung3300]

This is so pretty! Thank you!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks.

[@melissaamyx2196]

I do alot of acrylic painting and I use super matte brands. And i discovered Flashe paints which are actually a vinyl paint but are very matte and yummy to work with. And quite a bit cheaper than acrylic gouache. They run about $13 for 4.2 oz jars. I also use Matpub by Pebeo. And im in love with the colors you used, a gorgeous sketching now! And your sweet helper is too cute!

[@deborahandrade3453]

Beautiful, Sharon!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks!

[@btwilks]

Great job of making a very ordinary-looking book cover into a work of art, Sharon. I have an Etchr sketchbook but I'll probably leave the cover 'as is' until I'm confident i could do something as beautiful as your cover painting. Good to see Tully putting in his now-traditional appearance, by the way. Thanks for sharing this, I'm sure you've got a lot of Etchr owners all wondering 'Hmmm, I wonder if I could do that?' Kind regards, Brian.

[@SharonCullenArt]

You can do it! Just have fun. Hey if it doesn’t turn out the way you like you just make an abstract!

[@madelynsmith8281]

So pretty!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thank you 😊

[@christinegelormino5594]

It's beautiful. So happy to see you painting again, even if it is gouache 😊

[@SharonCullenArt]

Ha! Thanks.

[@paulinedavis3660]

Love this😊 well done ...

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thank you.

[@mary.reynolds6391]

Nice.❤

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thanks.

[@mariannekoekkelkoren4443]

Lovely Sharon, greatings from the netherlands.

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thank you! Wow the Netherlands. I have always wanted to visit.

[@kellywilson2147]

I love how this turned out, Sharon! I have several Etcher sketchbooks thanks to their Kickstarter, and I was horrified when they arrived, and they were that off-white color and fabric! I decided I had to do something immediately, so I applied a watered down coat of 11:51 clear gesso to the cover and went to town with Tim Holtz alcohol inks! It turned out pretty good, but not how I imagined. I need to put something over the surface to protect it, and I was wondering; do you think Dorland's wax would work? I'm going to do another sketchbook without the gesso just to see what happens. I can always fix it if it doesn't work! 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

[@loveandlife4222]

Oh boy, my book looks just like yours before you painted it. I will have to do mine. Yours is beautiful! Did you put a coat of dorlands wax on top afterwards or was the gouache sufficient?

[@SharonCullenArt]

Great question, with Acrylic gouache it isn’t necessary. But I did, just to keep it cleaner since it is getting shoved into a bag and pulled out,and taken out plein air painting etc.