Landscape Painting with Gouache for Beginners
Details, Texture, and Finishing Touches
A course by Maddy Bellwoar , Painter and Digital Artist
About the video: Details, Texture, and Finishing Touches
Overview
“We have reached the final stage of the painting process! In this part, I will use my smallest-size brushes to add the final layer of details, highlights, and textures. This is a good time to check in with the focal point in the painting. Is it engaging the viewer, or is something else capturing the attention? If you are unsure, you can always take a break from your work and return to it with a fresh perspective. Then, you can make adjustments as needed to make sure you are happy with the final results of the painting.”
In this video lesson Maddy Bellwoar addresses the topic: Details, Texture, and Finishing Touches, 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
“ Details, Texture, and Finishing Touches This lesson will be the final part of the painting process. We will be using our smallest brushes to add details and texture to that final layer. At this stage of the painting process, it's good to step back, take a look at what you did so far, and ask yourself if everything is working. For example, are the values working as you planned in your sketch? Is there a focal point? Do you have anything that stands out that you don't like and want to change? When I'm checking in with myself now to see if I'm happy with the painting's value structure, I wou...”
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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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