Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache
A course by Ruth Wilshaw , Artist and Author
Learn to paint dream-like scenes filled with detail by exploring a combination of illustration techniques with watercolor and gouache
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- 99% positive reviews (168)
- 7650 students
- Audio: English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
Learn to paint dream-like scenes filled with detail by exploring a combination of illustration techniques with watercolor and gouache
Sparkling waterfalls, misty forests, golden rays of sunlight—these are the kinds of scenes that sweep you away to a world of enchantment. And this is exactly the kind of magic that Ruth Wilshaw captures in her fantastical landscape paintings, using a mix of watercolor and gouache techniques to create evocative illustrations you can lose yourself in. With her intuitive approach to painting, she allows each piece to unfold like a story, letting the colors and patterns lead her down paths that transcend reality.
In this online course, escape to your own imaginary oasis as you learn to use watercolor and gouache to create dream-like landscape paintings. Tap into the best of these two mediums and discover how to combine them flawlessly to paint scenes with a fairy tale essence.
If you can’t get enough of Ruth’s ethereal illustrations and want to learn to paint your own, make sure you check out her first Domestika course, Painting Atmospheric Landscapes with Gouache.
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 27 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (168)
- 7650 students
- 20 lessons (3h 41m)
- 27 additional resources (13 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Paint your own dream-like landscape with watercolor and gouache.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
All illustrators and dreamers interested in combining watercolor and gouache techniques to capture the magic of nature in their very own landscape painting.
Requirements and materials
No prior experience is required—Ruth teaches you everything you need to know from scratch.
As for materials, all you need is watercolor and gouache paints, paintbrushes, a palette, watercolor or mixed-media paper, and other simple tools Ruth specifies throughout the course.
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A course by Ruth Wilshaw
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.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Materials and Techniques
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Mixing Watercolor and Gouache
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Paints and Tools
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Watercolors: Palette and Basic Techniques
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Painting Techniques: Reading the Background
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Gouache: Basic Techniques
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Gouache: Painting Four Elements 1
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Gouache: painting four elements 2
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U3
Composing a Scene
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Single Element, Close-up, and Full Scene
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The Composition
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The References
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U4
Painting the Scene
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The Loose Watercolor Background
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Reading the Background
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The Main Elements 1
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The Main Elements 2
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The Details and Finishing Touches 1
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The Details and Finishing Touches 2
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U5
Mixing Media and Fixing Mistakes
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Adding Embellishments
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Fixing Mistakes
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FP
Final project
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Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
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Get front-row seats
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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patw9310
great technique to learn, well explained, good pacing and expanded my imagination
lenajo61
I likeds it very much. She is a good teacher and inspirationl. And I like her painting style
sandrinedoucine
Curso completo y muy interesante. Me encantó.
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seedsaver
A challenging but great learning experience for me. I've never used gouache before so definitely a learning curve. A lot of things "clicked" for me learning to paint the elements that encouraged me to observe more in nature and work on technique.
Ruth is a great teacher, step by step, she explains her process, there's a lot to learn here!
neo_world
Ya sabía algo de gouache, pero este curso me encantó, me gust como de enseña, además de inspiracional, recomendado.
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