Gouache Painting 🎨: 14 Hours Of Brush & Paper! 🧡🌸❤️

Today' painting is probably the most serious I have gotten with gouache. I am a BIG sucker for those perfect gouache paintings which demonstrate light values. I could look at them all day and even paint like that all day, all night. And quite frankly I did start painting this last night after 1 am. It was a bit tough to decide between sleep and doing a gouache study, mind you I had already been painting for 9 hours before that for a commission.

And the decision was quite easy since the logical reasoning is generally out the window at that hour for me 😂

Anyway, I quickly tuned out the world and worked at the base layers of highlights with some nice music in the background. Gradually building up, I completely forgot about the concept of time and sleep and been at it for a few hours. It was nearly 5-6 am when I realised I was having trouble identifying the true nature of a color because of artificial lighting. Unfortunately I had to stop and consider how it could ruin it and thought it would be best if I continued after waking up. And of course, I woke up with a mad headache and my eyes did NOT like the amount of daylight they were seeing lol. But I was so excited to continue that I kept those things aside and put all my focus where it was necessary.

And even though there are millions of improvement to be done, I am quite happy with it especially since it was a very limited color palette with interesting details here and there :)