Nicely done, Lenet. I have been spending so much time with watercolor, and this was a nice deviation for me.
Brenda
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Thank you @Brenda . This was a little diversion for me as well. But as usual, worth the effort for the learning experience.
Lenet
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Thanks so much for your detailed response. Learning and getting information from each other is so helpful. The markers still aren’t exciting me right now. (Watch and I’ll probably change my impression of them a year from now.).
Terri Robichon
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It happens, Terri!!! 
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Hello all, 
After my painting of tomatoes, I decided to go for avocado as well, as it is a yummy combination 
As I have only 2 colors of posca markers used in the lesson, I decided to try it with gouache instead. I used grey paper as in the lesson, but this paper is quite thin so I tried to avoid water as much as possible (meaning completely 
). Well, I must say it was a bit harder to manipulate the paint, and I am not sure how the color pencils will act, but lets try. I am going to use polychromos color pencils.
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Hi Lucy.
So far, so good. Just keep going and post again how it turns out.
I tried this lesson too, but had the same problem of not having the posca colors. Your decision to go with gouache was a good option. I ended up going with acrylic paint and couldn’t put colored pencil on top of it. But I still liked my end result.
Terri Robichon
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It’s looking really good! With mine I used some generic acrylic paint markers I had bought at Sam’s club. Can’t wait to see your avocado completed
Sonia Alonzo
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Great start! This course will be the next one on my list, as I just got my rand new set of Luminance colored pencils to try out.
I love the Polychromos myself, but they aren’t as vibrant on gray paper as I would like them to be. Just keep in mind that Polychromos are harder than Prismacolors, so itmightbe a challenge color with them over gouache. If you have any wax-based colored pencils, I would suggest using them instead forthus project.
Anyhow, I am curious how your avocados turn out in the end.
Buddy
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Hello all
So the avocado is done. Well… it was a bit challenging.
Terri, I was first thinking about using acrylic, but luckily I saw your painting before I started so I knew I would not be able to apply pencils. That’s why I went for gouache.
What did I learn? That it was not impossible to apply colored pencils but it was quite hard. The gouache got pretty hard (without water), I felt like I am scratching some plastic paint. It was good learning process, plus I loved to put this crazy color of green and yellow down at the beginning
Buddy, yes, polychromos are completely different. As well, I couldn’t apply light color on top of the dark, as you can do with Prismacolor. I remembered that when trying to force my white pencil to cooperate
Here is my final drawing. Happy that it looks like an avocado! 
Lucy
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Hi Lucy -
You did great with the avocado and it’s so good that you aren’t afraid to experiment and learn. Thanks for sharing.
Terri Robichon
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