Yesterday, I showed you my planned palette set up for my Arteza gouache.
Here, you can see that I’ve added the paint to each well, in the pre-planned positions. I let it dry over night. It is really interesting to see how matte the colors are now that they have dried. Originally, they were very shiny and wet looking right out of the tube.
The paint was very creamy and easy to squeeze out of the tube. Even though I had previously opened these, there didn’t appear to be any problems with the paint being dried out. A few of the covers had a small amount of dried paint in the top, but it fell out onto my mat without any problems. And the covers went back on easily.
The next step will be to create a swatch sheet that shows the colors in their actual positions. I will be using that while I paint, to select the desired color.