Basic Landscape Acrylic Gouache Painting

Learn basic techniques of acrylic gouache painting, including required materials, brush stroke methods, color mixing with palette knives, blending, and creating tree details with an origo brush.

Explore essential acrylic gouache painting materials: six colors (primaries plus green, black, white), seven-inch canvas, masking tape, glass panel, assorted brushes, and a mixing knife, plus basic techniques.

Master basic techniques by blending colors with a flat brush, dark orange and white, then create leaves with Riggo Brush, clouds with Blendr or Bayridge Albi, and a zigzag river.

Block the background with acrylic gouache, mix red and blue into a purplish tone lightened with white, and blend with a large brush to avoid lines while building river tones.

Detail the river with a flat brush, blending purple and blue in zigzag strokes, then layer yellow, white, and red to fill areas and blend with a Princeton blender brush.

Blend red, blue, and white to shape a sunlit hillside and use flat, round, or fan brushes to add yellow highlights, and purple and black accents.

Create the sun with yellow and white in small circles, blend the edges, then form magenta shadows on mountains and paint clouds with a dry blender brush in circular motions.

Learn to paint palm trees in acrylic gouache by blocking shapes, shaping trunks, and adding leaf lines with multiple brushes, mastering texture, color thinning, and quick-drying acrylics.

Apply final detailing to a landscape acrylic gouache painting by layering small brush strokes on tree trunks, adding sun reflections and highlights, blending colors, and removing tape for clean edges.