ATV3:1 gouache studies

Part 1: I very much enjoyed working with gouache paint (a new paint to me) and I loved working out how to mix the paints to match the fabric pieces I had chosen. I daftly painted out three lots of fabric swatches and then lost two and found the last one had about 8 colours in it rather than the 5 I thought I had seen! So I didn’t use the first samples but it taught me a lot of assuming things!

Part 2: I loved extending this piece of African print, creating the white dots was of course completely impossible but I had fun trying anyway. I can see the green isn’t a 100% match as it is slightly too blue but it is slight. I should have re-done it, I know!

Part 3: Chosing a piece of fabric and extending it out was great fun. The neutral fabric I chose was extremely hard to accurately extend as it’s crochet so I decided to show the pattern and the colours and make it more abstract rather than aiming for a perfect rendition and no doubt failing miserably as it was so complex. In all I love how it has worked out!