Gouache Equipment

What Equipment do you need?

Paints

Daler-Rowney Colours offer some exciting prospects and their brilliance is highly suited to graphic reproduction as well as fine art painting techniques.

There is so much choice on the market for beginners that it is best to start with a  basic palette

Acrylic Glaze Medium

Can be used with gouache to render it water resistant and for over painting without pick-up

Palettes

China saucers, five-well china slant palettes, plastic palettes

Brushes, Pens and Plastic Knives

Brushes can be expensive but it is worth having one or two really good sable brushes backed by a range of less expensive ox hair, squirrel hair and hog bristle brushes.

You can also apply gouache paint with a palette knife or dip pen.

Easels and Boards

Buy a good easel if you can afford it.

Supports

Some of the many papers and boards suitable for gouache painting:

• Whatman HP watercolour paper
• Canford paper, Pearl Grey
• Ingres paper, Slate Grey
• Ingress paper, Sienna brown
• Bockingford watercolour paper
• Ingres paper, Verona Green
• Ingres paper, French Blue
• Ingres paper, Tan
• Whatman Not watercolour paper
• Studland mounting board, Sepia
• Cartridge paper
• Studland mounting board, Blue Grey
• Daler watercolour board (Saunders Waterford Not surface)