Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

Overview

“Let's continue to practice painting water. We will add the shoreline as well as the reflections that it creates. Don't be scared to try out textures and waves as well―whenever you're not happy with how your water looks, you can always smooth it out again.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Landscape Basics 4, 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 You would find some bushes and maybe a bit of grass along the shoreline. I'll pop that in with a bit of yellow, because it helps to give that impression of the ground flowing down to the water where it ends. For this, I'm just using a lighter yellow green. Then, we painted the original bushes. Unlike we did for the distant trees, I'll pop that bit of grass in underneath. If you wanted to develop this further, you could pick out the individual bushes in this area, like we did for the distant trees. Once that's dry, we'll get a nice lighter area along the water's edge and we ...”

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Course summary for: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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