Post #374040 by little lost tiki on Wed, Apr 16, 2008 8:35 AM

Thanks hiltiki,Clarita,Cammo,Raves,Chongo ,and frostiki!
just poppin in for a second to answer Frosti's question...

when you paint on the wood with it are you priming the wood with gesso or do you leave it unprimed. I'm still working up to trying it out on the paper, but I'm curious about the technique on different media. Also any advice on using paint pens with the gauche as well, or with acrylic?

for wood....
for gouache, i usually mix a little gesso (GESSO! not acrylic gesso-read the label-it don't work as well as the real deal....Bob Ross gesso works very well! :lol: it does!) with some gouache to give the ground something to adhere it to the wood-sand lightly after drying (if you want...) then you can go over it with more gouache....If i want a good coverage, I'll mix the gouache with water til it gets a "little wetter than toothpaste" consistency....You CAN paint on wood with gouache if it's unprimed,but you MUST sand it! haven't done it that way enough to giove you advice tho!
As for gouache and paint pens......
here's the dealio..... If you do all the solid colors/backgrounds in gouache-YOU MUST SEAL IT GOOOOOOOOOD ...then you can paintpen over it....that's how i do it...but PRACTICE first!
I still mess up on occassion....Acrylics are your best bet for a ground to lay paintpens over....but i still seal that too so i got a nice hard "slickness" to glide the paintpens over......
and always spray with a UV spray and seal one last time when finished! and Seal it in between sessions/colors of paintpens -so they don't smudge or smear into each other.....
Hope that helps Frostiki! Here's to you and the Wahine's Creative journies!