Been busy lately and didn't manage to post

But I finally tried out the gouache pallet I bought in a previous post.

I decided rather than trying something simple to start, I was confident I would quickly get the hand of it, as in the past I would often paint with oil or acrylic. However, this wasn't the best idea.

the sketch

To start, I sketched what I wanted to paint, a strawberry and its flower. Again, I was overconfident and quickly struggled.

the colours

I struggled to open the paint pots, not a great sign. I thought these colours would be what I used, which I did!

the base

Of course, I painted the base colour of a strawberry, which is red. Easy.

shading

Not sure if it's visible, but I tried to use a darker red to shade it a bit to give some definition.

texture

With a lighter orangey brown like colour, I started trying to define the strawberry seeds. Honestly, this looks a lot better in the picture than in person!

struggle starts

Eventually, I started to blend everything together while I was painting, as I'm not patient for the paint to dry. I added dark red/black dots for the seeds, and this made me so unhappy.

adding more shading

I tried to add some white areas and a little bit of a darker colour at the edges too, again, wasn't really happy with the outcome.

darker shading

Did another bit of darker shading. But now I felt like this was too intense...

getting tired

This was taking longer than I thought, making it hard for me to consistently take pictures. I started on the leaf/stem of the strawberry, but at this point I was kind of discouraged.

finished!

I kind of gave up and just slapped on some dark green, I was disappointed with the outcome as I had thought I would be an art genius. But that's overconfidence on my part.

I will try again and definitely follow a tutorial better!

Hope you like it!