Tomato, anyone?

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I spent a few hours watching acrylic painting for beginners courses today. Afterwards I decided to paint a tomato in acrylic gouache. It’s called gouache but it’s not really gouache. The difference is that acrylic gouache is acrylic paint thinned down with water. When it dries, it cures and becomes a plastic film that’s waterproof and impossible to reactivate. Gouache, on the other hand, is water-soluble and can be re-activated.

I used three colors for this painting and mixed the greens and reddish-oranges using yellow ochre, cobalt blue, permanent red, and threw in some black and white just to see what would happen. Color mixing is a whole new experience for me.

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Tomato or apple? The leaves tell me it’s a tomato.