Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll learn how to paint some common landscape elements. I'll also teach you how valuable silhouettes can be when simplifying complex scenes.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Landscape Basics 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks. Master gouache painting techniques to create expressive landscapes with vibrant colors, focusing on composition and color theory.

Partial transcription of the video

“Landscape Basics Silhouettes are one of my favorite ways to fill a page and they're a really simple technique to combine with other layering effects, such as a textured background. Here, we're going to have a go and we'll use some black gouache and fill this page with some silhouettes of a tree and some plants. When we paint silhouettes, we want to use a nice contrasting color so we can clearly see the outlines of the items we're painting. Here, I'm using just regular black. I have a selection of brushes for this because we want to change the brush depending on the size of the mark that we ...”

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Course summary for: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

• Level: Beginner
• 307 students
• 8 units
• 110 lessons (18h 30m)
• 43 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration