Gouache, Tiling, and Paint-By-Numbers

A paint blending technique without any blending

Gouache and watercolor portrait by Gil Robles. One blending technique for gouache is to separate grades of color into closely related bands or daubs, which blend in the eye of the viewer.

One of my favorite painting mediums is an opaque watercolor called gouache (pronounced GWASH), which has a special set of challenges that gives gouache paintings a dist…