#cottman

Washi tape was not kind to my paper 😕

Obertöne gouache (black and white only) over Cottman watercolor.

Not particularly neat/precise work, just wanted to give a general form and impression. Couple of close ups:

Obertöne is a cheap gouache I picked up in Mexico while Reeve's was basically unobtainable. I've never seen the brand in the US, and it seems like they're trying to play themselves off as a German brand. The quality is pretty similar to Reeve's (better than the jelly crap, worse than Holbein; infinitely better than the ones that smell like formaldehyde). Maybe I'll do a side-by-side comparison of them another day.

Base paint - cottman water colors

Details - arrtx jelly gouache (colors), Winsor & Newton designer gouache (white)

Thoughts - Liked these water colors best and quite happy with how the blueberry doughnut came out. Don't love the jelly gouache, but I'm determined to use them up.

Base paint - hyperexist pebble watercolors

Details - Arrtx jelly gouache

Really happy with the texture on the orange doughnut. These water colors are conceptually neat and can be fun to play with, but less pigmented than I'd like and very slow to soak in the water. They're not single-pigment, and I was also disappointed to see that the purple separated a bit when used as a wash. I like that they're local and the manufacturer seems to have a good ethos, but there's a reason paints aren't usually made with food-grade pigments.

Base paint - Pelikan lichtfeste Deckfarben

Details - arrtx jelly gouache and W&N titanium white

The paints I used for the base aren't really meant to be used how I used them, so I won't complain about the texture they give. The pigment concentration is really nice, and would be great for other projects.

Meristem, we have a problem – an Excerpt from “Bart Steele”

The Swiftwing moved on between the stars. Shift followed shift, spaceport followed spaceport, sun followed sun.

The blackout at peak of each warp-shift persisted. The captain had given me permission to report off duty, but since the blackouts did not impair my efficiency, I had refused.

One day when I came on watch and what I saw was worried faces. When Ringg came into the control center they…