Christina Smith Naakt

Christina Smith Naakt At the Kansas City Art Institute and Northwest Missouri State University, I explored several mediums before settling into a paint called gouache. Gouache is opaque watercolor and satisfies my desire for both strong color and subtle color changes. It also seems to create more of the illusion of dimension than transparent watercolor can. Recently, I've been using pencil, especially black pencil, for the foliage and backgrounds. The penciled areas resemble an etching and yet those areas blend well with the birds that are painted in gouache. Together, the gouache and pencil is making an interesting and challenging combination with some great results. ENTER HERE