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

“So 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. And here what we're gonna do is we're gonna have a go and we're gonna use some black wash 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. So here I'm using just regular blocks I have a selection of brushes for this because we want to change the brush depending on the size of the...”

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Course summary for: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

• Level: Beginner
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• 1033 students
• 8 units
• 110 lessons (18h 30m)
• 43 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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