Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners
Getting Familiar with the Gouache Medium 1
A course by Maddy Bellwoar , Painter and Digital Artist
About the video: Getting Familiar with the Gouache Medium 1
Overview
“Gouache is an amazingly versatile medium! From transparent watercolor-like effects to completely opaque painting and dry-brushing, gouache really can do it all. In this lesson, we will explore the many different ways you can use gouache to paint and how to achieve effects by using different amounts of water in your paint mixture.”
In this video lesson Maddy Bellwoar addresses the topic: Getting Familiar with the Gouache Medium 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners. Learn to paint with gouache by sketching and illustrating a colorful, natural environment from a photo reference.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to begin working with a gouache medium. I'm excited to show you my favorite thing about it, which is versatility. We're going to look at a number of different ways that you can use gouache. By changing the amount of water in your paint mixture. For this exercise, I'll be using a half inch flat brush with an angled tip. You can also use a flat brush or a round brush, whatever you prefer. The results of your brushstrokes will look slightly different if you're using a round brush. Or flat brush, but the techniques are the same. For this first type of painting, we're...”
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Course summary for: Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting
Maddy Bellwoar
A course by Maddy Bellwoar
Madeleine Bellwoar is an independent artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the beauty of the natural world through color, light, and texture. She is often in the forest sketching or taking photos and finding inspiration for her next painting. She mainly works with gouache and digital mediums, though she also enjoy watercolor and Ink.
As both a traditional and digital painter, Madeleine has been exploring ways to bring these mediums together through the creation of custom digital brush sets, which use real, traditional brushstrokes and textures. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and has been livestreaming her art process as a featured streamer on Behance and Twitch for the past five years Madeleine has also worked on assets and background painting for Ddraig House Game studio and collaborated with companies such as Wacom, Adobe, Behance, ArtStation, and Amazon Games.
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