Gouache Painting: Landscapes, Portraits & Color Mixing

Welcome to the Gouache Painting Course by Letstute, a complete, step-by-step guide to painting with one of the most versatile and forgiving mediums in art.

Gouache sits between watercolor and acrylic. It's opaque like acrylic but reworkable like watercolor, which makes it ideal for beginners who want professional-looking results without a steep learning curve. In this course, you'll learn exactly how gouache differs from acrylic and watercolor, and how to use that difference to your advantage.

You'll start with the fundamentals of color theory, paint consistency, and brush handling before moving into real painted projects. We break each technique down into simple, repeatable steps: how to mix accurate skin tones and natural landscape colors, how to build depth through layering, how to blend soft transitions in skies and skin, and how to add realistic texture to trees, water, and fabric.

By the end of the course, you'll have painted complete landscape and portrait pieces from scratch, and you'll understand the principles well enough to start your own original work, whether that's a sunset over hills, a portrait of a loved one, or a piece you'd frame and hang on your own wall.

This course is built for beginners and intermediate artists alike. No prior painting experience is required, just a willingness to practice alongside each lesson. Every demonstration is filmed close-up so you can see brushwork and color mixing clearly, and lessons are paced so you can pause, mix your paint, and paint along in real time.