Landscape Impressions VII and VIII - abstract gouache paintings

Here are another two in the series.

Landscape Impressions #VII by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish.
Purchase this painting HERE

Landscape Impressions #VIII by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish.
Purchase this painting HERE 

These little paintings make an ideal gift, they are mounted on black coated hardboard sized to fit into a standar photo frame.

The varnish on these little gouache paintings give a tough,
resilient coating that protects them from moisture and allows framing without glass.

they are mounted on black MDF board to fit directly into an 18x24cm frame

Landscape Impressionss V and VI - abstract gouache paintings

These two use the same colour combinations, one with a high horizon line and the other with a low one.

 Landscape Impressions #V by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish.
Purchase this painting HERE
These little paintings make an ideal gift

The varnish on this little gouache painting gives it a tough,
resilient coating that protects it from moisture and means it can be framed without glass.

It has been mounted on black MDF board to fit directly into an 18x24cm frame

Landscape Impression #VI by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish.
Purchase this painting HERE
These little paintings make an ideal gift

The varnish on these little gouache paintings give a tough,
resilient coating that protects them from moisture and allows framing without glass.

they are mounted on black MDF board to fit directly into an 18x24cm frame

These have given me the idea of doing a series with limited colour combination maybe red and yellow, blue and green and so on.

Landscape Impressions III - abstract gouache painting

Number 3 in the landscape impressions series.

Landscape Impression III  by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish

The varnish on this little gouache painting gives it a tough,
resilient coating that protects it from moisture and means it can be framed without glass.

It has been mounted on black MDF board to fit directly into an 18x24cm frame.
Purchase this unique painting HERE

A different view of the landscape to give the impression of birch trees. I started this in the same way as the previous two to give the background colours. Then  using thick gouache and a flat brush, I criss crossed the different colours to give an impression of  autumn woodland. After this had dried, - and that is the beauty of gouache it dries almost instantly - I used another flat brush to wipe away the paint for the tree trunk impressions and then worked back into the silhouettes left with grey and white to give the tree trunk markings. I finished off with the twig squiggles.

Landscape Impressions II - abstract gouache painting

The second in the series this time with more of a 'waterscape' feel to it.

Landscape Impressions #II  by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
coated with acrylic varnish
These small paintings make an ideal gift
Purchase this painting HERE

The varnish on this little gouache painting gives it a tough, resilient coating that protects it from moisture and means it can be framed without glass.
It has been mounted on MDF board to fit directly into an 18x24cm frame.

Landscape Impressions I - Gouache painting

This is an ongoing project to extend my knowledge of gouache. I have always enjoyed ethereal watercolour paintings that suggest the information but with no detail. As I was playing around with the gouache I wondered if I could achieve that effect with gouache. Here is my first try:

 Landscape impression I  by Marion Hedger

12.5x17.5cm (5"x7") Gouache on canvas board
Purchase this unique painting HERE

I coated the canvas with a ground of dark orangy colour acrylic.  Then roughly mapped in the design with the gouache and gave it a spritz with water, turning the support now and again to let the paint run but generally letting it go where it wanted to.  I then worked back into it, ocassionally spritzing again. In the final pass I tried to recapture some of the highlights as these had sunk into the support and some areas were qute dull where the paint had run. It was difficult to know how much reworking to do and how much could be achieve with gouache. When finished I varnished it with spray acrylic gloss varnish which lifted some of the dulled colours.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed working on the canvas as I thought it might be a little rough, but the gouache behaved well and it was stable enough to withstand the spritzing and the reworking and it had a nice feel to it while I was painting.

Not a watercolour 'ethereal' look, but I like the result. What do you think?