Gouache paints

While I was ordering more colored pencils online this afternoon, I dragged out a bag of gouache paints I used to use and went through them. Gouache had been one of my primary medium while I was at school, but I grew apart from them after graduation thinking I wouldn’t want to afford expensive paints any more. During 2 years, I didn’t miss them much, but occasionally I did.

Just couple of weeks ago, I came across some works of Cornelis Dusart, dutch painter, and I suddenly had this desire to go back to gouache painting. So here I was, going through old gouache paint tubes and put them in three groups, to keep, to toss, to replace. Thankfully, most of paints were in good shapes despite my horrible treatment they didn’t deserve. Some paints needed to be tossed because they were like bricks inside the tube. Some paints needed to be replaced with new ones because they were like bricks but I needed them for sure.

But on a second thought, I wouldn’t toss any of them.