Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners
Techniques for Painting Nature 2
A course by Maddy Bellwoar , Painter and Digital Artist
About the video: Techniques for Painting Nature 2
Overview
“I will now give volume to my painting by adding shadows and using negative space. I will also show you some fun ways for painting beautiful skies and clouds with a wet-on-wet technique and a lifting technique.”
In this video lesson Maddy Bellwoar addresses the topic: Techniques for Painting Nature 2, 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 Now that our paint is dry, we can begin with a second layer. I'll mix a darker color by taking the Permanent Green we already have here and adding a little bit of spectrum violet. I love this color, and even though I'm using mostly Holbein paints, I love this enough to put it in my set. I don't mind mixing different brands together. Now, we have our darker color mixed up. I'll start adding some shadows here. I'm trying to imagine, when I'm painting these shapes, that these shadows are created by space in between the leaves that's going into the distance a bi...”
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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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