Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners
Techniques for Painting Nature 1
A course by Maddy Bellwoar , Painter and Digital Artist
About the video: Techniques for Painting Nature 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you techniques that will empower you to create lush nature and landscape scenes. First, I will dive into one of my favorite topics, foliage painting! I will discuss ways to simplify the complicated and detailed foliage we see in our reference images. Then, I will go on to explain how you can use different brushes and mark-making techniques to paint plants and groups of leaves with a natural effect. ”
In this video lesson Maddy Bellwoar addresses the topic: Techniques for Painting Nature 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
“ Techniques for Painting Nature In this lesson, we'll look at specific techniques that will help you in painting your landscapes. First, I'll talk about one of my favorite subjects, foliage. Foliage can be very detailed and overwhelming to paint, so it's important to think about the big shapes that you see. For example, a lot of trees and bushes can take on the shape of a sphere or an oval in their most basic form. In this example, I'm showing one of my reference images and an overlay of my thought process for how I break down these shapes. I try to see the most basic shape in each element...”
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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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