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Using Gouache for the first time and I quite like it, its easier to blend than acrylics but you can still layer it to create block colour if you change your mind, unlike watercolours. I did however paint so much that the paper began to fall apart, I shall realy have to start using canvas.

I did nearly give up on this and thought about just ripping it out of my sketchbook but I did my usual of walk away for a while and then look at it again a bit later, then I can usually figure out whats wrong and luckily I sort of managed to salvage it.

This painting was inspired by the flappers of the 1930s- 1940s. I called her Aphrodite because throughout the painting I was trying to portray a sense of deadly beauty type thing...

Description
Using Gouache for the first time and I quite like it, its easier to blend than acrylics but you can still layer it to create block colour if you change your mind, unlike watercolours. I did however paint so much that the paper began to fall apart, I shall realy have to start using canvas.

I did nearly give up on this and thought about just ripping it out of my sketchbook but I did my usual of walk away for a while and then look at it again a bit later, then I can usually figure out whats wrong and luckily I sort of managed to salvage it.

This painting was inspired by the flappers of the 1930s- 1940s. I called her Aphrodite because throughout the painting I was trying to portray a sense of deadly beauty type thing...