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Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache

Painting Techniques: Reading the Background

A course by Ruth Wilshaw , Artist and Author

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99% positive reviews (202)

9,976 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Painting Techniques: Reading the Background

Overview

“Each individual background can be the starting point for multiple ideas. Here I will show you how you can “read” the loose watercolor backgrounds you create to inspire new ideas and find shapes and patterns.”

In this video lesson Ruth Wilshaw addresses the topic: Painting Techniques: Reading the Background, 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

“Painting Techniques: Reading the Background In this lesson, let's look at how to read the textured backgrounds that we created. This is my favorite step of this technique. It involves taking the loose watercolor backgrounds we've painted and teasing ideas out of them. This stage is personal to everyone, and everyone that looks at the same background might see something slightly different. This gives us a nice opportunity to create different artworks. What I've got here is a page of some loose backgrounds. I'll go through them with a white pen and mark on some of the ideas that I see in thes...”

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Course summary for: Fantasy Landscapes with Watercolor & Gouache

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (202)
9976 students
5 units
20 lessons (3h 41m)
13 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting

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.