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Painting Atmospheric Landscapes with Gouache

The Foreground

A course by Ruth Wilshaw , Artist and Author

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Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: The Foreground

Overview

“In the fifth step, we'll paint the foreground which will mostly consist of silhouettes that frame the scene to create dimension. We’ll also add some little firefly details.”

In this video lesson Ruth Wilshaw addresses the topic: The Foreground, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting Atmospheric Landscapes with Gouache. Learn how to paint layered landscapes with a magical atmosphere using gouache paint.

Partial transcription of the video

“The Foreground With our background and our middle ground finished, in this lesson, we'll paint our foreground. We know from our plan that this layer is going to consist mostly of silhouettes. We'll allow these silhouettes to extend off the edge of the painted area, specifically at the bottom, where we'll add lots of plants. We want them to grow into the scene, but also spill out of the edges. To do this, we're going to mix a dark blue, like we have in our plan. We have to be a little bit brave with this layer because we'll paint over everything that we've already done with a really dark col...”

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Course summary for: Painting Atmospheric Landscapes with Gouache

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (426)
11842 students
5 units
22 lessons (4h 20m)
19 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Gouache Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Ruth Wilshaw

A course by Ruth Wilshaw

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Artist and Author

Ruth Wilshaw is a full-time artist specializing in painting landscapes with gouache. As a child, she never missed an opportunity to draw or paint. Although she was always motivated by her inner creativity, Ruth was disappointed in the subjective attitude to art during college and decided to leave. Years later, she found inspiration from the show The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, and once her artistic fire had been rekindled, Ruth was determined to explore painting once more, first with other mediums such as charcoal and watercolor before finally falling in love with gouache.

Since then, after amassing a large Instagram following of over 100K, she has established a full-time career and written the book Creative Gouache and continues to share her work and processes on social media.