Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache
Watercolors: Palette and Basic Techniques
A course by Ruth Wilshaw , Artist and Author
About the video: Watercolors: Palette and Basic Techniques
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain how to choose a color palette that inspires you, and I will teach you some basic ways of applying watercolor to the page in order to create light and texture.”
In this video lesson Ruth Wilshaw addresses the topic: Watercolors: Palette and Basic Techniques , which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache. Learn to paint dream-like scenes filled with detail by exploring a combination of illustration techniques with watercolor and gouache.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're gonna take a look at color and texture and light and how to create that with our watercolors for our backgrounds. So I really like to begin this process off by exploring color. This is a really intuitive process, so it's important to have colours that inspire your imagination. I've got here some swatches and these are all fun explorations of colour. that are a really easy way to begin using this technique. What I like to do is swatch out my watercolors so I know what sort of colors I can expect once they're wet. I also like to combine colors in different ways and that'...”
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Course summary for: Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Ruth Wilshaw
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.
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