First painting of the year

Finally did my first little gouache painting with the new paints I got for Christmas:



I asked for some one-notch-nicer paints than the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel set I was working with (like, a tenth the price of anything else). I think the colour of these new ones is definitely denser and richer.

The pointillist lights came out a little more dramatic than I meant them to, so I just ran with it.

As usual, I'm posting while waiting for a pot of stew to cool -- this is gumbo, sort of, though gumbo no actual Cajun cook would recognize.

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*You can tell (or maybe not, ha) that it's painted after the Garrick Sangil photo I used in the cover art of the journalling game I made.