Gouache Painting of Urban Landscapes
The Gouache Medium: Starting Out
A course by Tommy Kim , Art Director and Urban Sketch Enthusiast
Joined November 2021
About the video: The Gouache Medium: Starting Out
Overview
“Let's get started! First, I will talk about what the course project entails and outline the materials you will need. Then, I will give a demonstration of how gouache reacts to different types of papers. ”
In this video lesson Tommy Kim addresses the topic: The Gouache Medium: Starting Out, which is part of the Domestika online course: Gouache Painting of Urban Landscapes. Learn how to paint your surroundings by exploring gouache techniques to create a detailed cityscape filled with color and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Gouache Medium: Starting Out In this lesson, we'll go through the materials that we'll use for this course. On the brushes, we have two different styles of brushes. One that I'm a fan of and I've been using a lot on my gouache paintings is the bristle fan brushes. These are very thin and they're fanned out, so they can cover a lot of surface quickly and can make a variety of brushstrokes fast. These are typical watercolor brushes. They're great for gouache as well and work great on watercolor paper. They're great for making small details. They can make fine edges, so that's what they ...”
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Course summary for: Gouache Painting of Urban Landscapes
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Gouache Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Tommy Kim
A course by Tommy Kim
Tommy Kim is an art director in the animation industry and an urban sketch enthusiast. Though he spent most of his life in Los Angeles, he is now based in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he enjoys practicing his hobby of plein-air painting.
His passion is to capture everyday life in his artwork, and finds peace whenever he’s outside observing nature with his gouache paint. When he’s not painting, he’s working in the animation industry, collaborating with clients like Gaumont Animation, Original Force Animation, Illumination and Skydance.
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