the reason why I create art | real time gouache painting (mostly)
Channel: Zyra Bañez
Date: 12/01/2024

Hello! Another week and another video! This time I am showing the full painting process of a gouache artwork I recently completed. This is both a practice painting and a finished artwork as the painting was completed on an MDF wooden board. I also share the struggles of painting with gouache, especially with this particular artwork.

AND I also share my work of the year, my goals for the upcoming year and the main reason why I create art, and why I'm putting so much effort into painting and drawing once again after a long hiatus, but also why I'm so keen to keep making videos and documenting my process and my thoughts with each artwork.

I hope you enjoy this new artwork. I can't wait to share more new artworks with you here on YouTube and on the rest of my social media accounts (which are linked down below).

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- - - materials - - -
(all links below are Amazon Affiliate links)

- 21cm x 29cm MDF wood board
- Mont Marte gesso * https://amzn.to/3RTT0Vj
- Holbein Artists gouache • https://amzn.to/2oXEemY
- Princeton Snap! Round 4 brush • https://amzn.to/41e0neF

- - - time taken - - -

approx. 3 hours

- - - music - - - 

"Cash Machine" Anno Domini Beats (YouTube Library)
"GROWTH DECAY" Density & Time (YouTube Library)
"Alone" Emmit Fenn (YouTube Library)
"Birds" Corbyn Kites (YouTube Library)
"I Had a Feeling" TrackTribe (YouTube Library)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

- - - timestamps - - - 
0:00 Intro
1:05 Getting back into painting
4:55 A spontaneous process
6:41 Outlining with gouache
8:54 My word of the year
11:20 What not to do with gouache
13:33 Let it dry
16:44 Why I create art
20:35 Sharing all my secrets