Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

Overview

“In this lesson, I will tell you how I plan out my creative process. With my guidance, you will apply the principles you've learned so far to work through your painting step by step. As long as you remember the fundamentals—positioning the horizon line, establishing the big shapes of your scene, and considering how these shapes interact—the details will emerge with time.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Starting to Paint, 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

“ Starting to Paint In this lesson we'll start painting our final project. Before we start painting, let me give you a bit of explanation of what I did. I took the initial sketch that we did in the previous lesson and blew it up on an 8 x 8 watercolor paper. I usually keep it pretty rough and think about the important stuff that we talked about, the big shapes, where the horizon line is, and how the shapes interact. That's pretty much all I need to proceed to the final painting. The details will come as we develop the painting. For our purposes, we will start with the background, move on to...”

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Course summary for: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks

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

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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