Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Here is my quick outdoor painting of a view of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Enjoy!
I tried some more intensive editing this time - I haven't tried editing to music since my second year animation course two years ago! I hope you enjoy this calm video. In the end I decided that a voice over was not necessary, even though I had a lot to say about the painting. Here's a bit of extra information about gouache anyway:
Often I work in a watercolor-like way to start, and slowly build up to more and more opaque layers. You can definitely use gouache opaque through the whole thing, and I do sometimes, but I love how gouache is when it's thinned down. Honestly I think you can do whatever you want with gouache, there's no one way to use it, just as there's no one way for oils, acrylics, or anything else.
I also utilized some deliberate re-activation of the paint on my page, when I put the light opaque gouache over the tree trunks. The colour I mixed was a light warm gray, but it also picked up the green/purples that I had put down before, and made for a more varied finish. If I kept rubbing more, I could pick up more of the darks underneath and really render the trunks - the more you scrub, the more you'll reactivate the lower layers. Just depends what you feel like!
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Brushes:
---HJ 725 Series Gold Sable 1/2 Inch
---Silver Ruby Satin 2500 Series 8 Round
---HJ 930 Series White Taklon 8 Filbert
---Simply Simmons 1 Round
Paints:
---Gouache (Winsor & Newton, M. Graham & Co. brands)
Other tools:
---Prismacolor Col-erase (Gray)
---Pochade box on tripod
Paper:
---Pentalic Aqua Journal
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'The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow' by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/honor
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
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Follow me on Instagram!
instagram.com/thoughtsupnorth
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For professional inquiries, please look at my website first:
marysanche.com
Here is my quick outdoor painting of a view of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Enjoy!
I tried some more intensive editing this time - I haven't tried editing to music since my second year animation course two years ago! I hope you enjoy this calm video. In the end I decided that a voice over was not necessary, even though I had a lot to say about the painting. Here's a bit of extra information about gouache anyway:
Often I work in a watercolor-like way to start, and slowly build up to more and more opaque layers. You can definitely use gouache opaque through the whole thing, and I do sometimes, but I love how gouache is when it's thinned down. Honestly I think you can do whatever you want with gouache, there's no one way to use it, just as there's no one way for oils, acrylics, or anything else.
I also utilized some deliberate re-activation of the paint on my page, when I put the light opaque gouache over the tree trunks. The colour I mixed was a light warm gray, but it also picked up the green/purples that I had put down before, and made for a more varied finish. If I kept rubbing more, I could pick up more of the darks underneath and really render the trunks - the more you scrub, the more you'll reactivate the lower layers. Just depends what you feel like!
---
Brushes:
---HJ 725 Series Gold Sable 1/2 Inch
---Silver Ruby Satin 2500 Series 8 Round
---HJ 930 Series White Taklon 8 Filbert
---Simply Simmons 1 Round
Paints:
---Gouache (Winsor & Newton, M. Graham & Co. brands)
Other tools:
---Prismacolor Col-erase (Gray)
---Pochade box on tripod
Paper:
---Pentalic Aqua Journal
---
'The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow' by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/honor
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
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Follow me on Instagram!
instagram.com/thoughtsupnorth
---
For professional inquiries, please look at my website first:
marysanche.com
