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What's the Best Gouache Paint?
Shared on 27 May 2022, by Rowan
If you're unfamiliar with gouache, sometimes known as opaque watercolor, it is a water-based paint that has a texture somewhere between acrylic and watercolor. However, unlike acrylic paint, which frequently dries glossy and textured (requiring a matte finish in certain circumstances to get the desired appearance), gouache dries matte and flat. When it dries, it retains its soluble nature and can be moved around or thinned out.
Depending on how much water is added to the gouache paint, it can create complete or sheer coverage. Because it is so easy to get full coverage, it is ideal for painting light over dark. It also dries quite rapidly. This makes gouache paint an incredibly popular medium choice for everyone from beginner to experienced artists.
There are plenty of brands on the market, from super cheap to fairly expensive. However, it can be difficult to decide what type of gouache paint to use. This is where we come in: I plan to provide a detailed review of some of the most well-known gouache paint brands on Amazon. All of these brands, however, have incredibly positive reviews overall so it can be difficult to tell the differences between them.
What You Need to Paint with Gouache
Shared on 20 May 2022, by Rowan
If you don’t know what gouache, also known as opaque watercolor, is, it is a water-medium paint that is kind of in between the texture of acrylic and watercolor. Gouache paint can provide full or sheer coverage depending on how much water is added to it. Since it can so easily be full coverage, like acrylic, it’s great for painting light over dark. It also dries incredibly quickly. However, unlike acrylic paint, which often dries glossy and textured (therefore requiring a matte topcoat in some cases for the desired effect), gouache dries matte and flat. Once it dries, it remains soluble and therefore it can be adjusted, which makes it much easier to use in certain cases.
Gouache is a great medium for beginner artists, but it’s also fantastic for experienced artists! Gouache can help you expand your artistic skill-set, or just let you play around with a new medium. Since it has different properties than acrylic and watercolor paints, it is a fun challenge for anyone regardless of their level of experience. Guache is particularly good for artists learning to paint quickly or how to portray shadows/lights using paint. If you’re an artist who enjoys mixed mediums, then gouache is also great for that (I particularly enjoy using these watercolor markers with it).
Must-Have Tools You'll Need as a Lifestyle Creator and Lifestyle Influencer
Shared on 13 May 2022, by Rowan
Lifestyle videos particularly are a very popular category across basically social media, or so they definitely thought. You can guarantee that almost every kind of top creator on Youtube has, at some point, made a video concerning their lifestyle in some form or another. Some specifically have even literally gained their audience and popularity as Youtubers solely through creating lifestyle content!
You may have considered becoming a lifestyle video creator and lifestyle influencer at some point. But, it can be tricky to know how to approach it and frame your videos around your daily life! It is important to remember if you want to become a lifestyle creator that there can be a difference between your actual daily life, and the life you show. Maybe you want to portray a person who does two hours of yoga a day and reads three books, instead of a workaholic or a couch potato. Maybe you want to show off how to make a three-hour dinner recipe when the reality is that most days, you just want to make pizza rolls. Whatever it is, it’s okay: getting into the lifestyle space can be intimidating. It’s important to remember you don’t have to be exactly the type of person your videos portray, but it’s also okay to sometimes show some vulnerability to your audience on a bad day. You can definitely show your audience there is a human being in these videos who is not completely perfect, who does have bad days.
Twitch Streaming Equipment for Beginners
Shared on 05 May 2022, by Rowan
So, you’re interested in becoming a streamer… Twitch has become incredibly popular over the past few years. From Youtubers moving platforms onto Twitch and focusing solely on streaming, to streamers like CorpseHusband, Dream, and Sykkuno becoming recognizable names even to people who haven’t watched a single Twitch stream, the proof is in the pudding. Twitch streaming can also seem a lot less intimidating than creating edited gameplay videos, and it can feel a lot more interactive to creators.
Whether you just want to chat with an audience, show off your gameplay skills, or expand your own content platform, you may be struggling to know where to start with equipment. Streaming on any platform can be really fun, but it can also be difficult to know where to start (especially without breaking the bank)! If you want to up your game and start streaming confidently, we have put together a list of the basic equipment you will need to start.
5 Items to Film Time-lapse/Speed Paint Art Videos on Your Phone with Ease
Shared on 26 April 2022, by Rowan
Timelapse videos are an amazing way to let audiences, customers, and fans really see your paintings start to come to life before the finished full piece is uploaded. Engagement on social media platforms is reflective of this. From Youtube to Tiktok, we’re seeing a massive uptick in video creation is one of the main ways for artists to expand their fanbase. We’re even starting to see Instagram put less focus on photos and heavily push for Instagram Reels being used by creators. if you’re an artist online, you’ve definitely considered posting videos of your creative process.
One of the main aspects of creating speed painting/timelapse videos that can be intimidating to artists is buying a camera to record. Artists already spend so much money and time on marketing themselves, art supplies, and video creation needs a lot more supplies on top of a camera (which is often a big purchase). It’s hard to convince yourself that it’s worth it, on top of saving up for it. That’s why we’ll be providing you with the exact tools you need to just film your art videos on your phone!
Top 5 Free Tools for Youtube Creators
Shared on 17 April 2022, by Rowan
There's no denying the effect of visual content. It’s much more effectively engaging with your audience, and the effects are enhanced when the content is in the form of video. Video allows emotions to be conveyed easily, so your audience will find you more relatable.
Even as the biggest online video platform in the world, Youtube still continues to rise. Whether you’re a brand new video creator or you’ve been making content for the past decade, it can still be a tricky path to navigate. Youtube changes with the internet, and the internet’s interests seem to change every five minutes. It can be hard enough keeping track of what these interests are, much less constantly trying to think of new content that still matches your style.
Being a Youtuber, regardless of your channel’s size, can often feel like a full-time job. You not only have to think of new content and create it, but you’re also in charge of marketing your channel, working with brands, editing your content, scripting it, etc. You work as a creator, a writer, an editor, and so much more. When you’re a new creator looking for ways to make a video and start your Youtube channel, the process can seem especially daunting when you realize all of the parts that come into play. It can be really intimidating!
