Gouache Landscapes for Beginners: Unlock your creative style

Welcome to Gouache Landscapes for Beginners and how to find your creative style. Painting landscapes can be a wonderful way to express your creativity and capture the beauty of nature, and with gouache it becomes even more fun since gouache is a versatile and popular medium for creating landscapes. It allows for vibrant colors, opaque coverage, and the ability to layer and blend. In this class, we will learn how to use gouache along with colored pencils to paint a landscape in your own creative style. This class is all about keeping your style simple and loose as much as possible so that you can overcome your painting fears easily and at the same time be able to paint landscapes with ease.

In this class you'll learn to paint a landscape from scratch using a reference image.

Key lessons include

• Understanding gouache as a medium

• Learning to mix your greens from primary colors

• Applying different gouache techniques

• Breaking down the composition and finding your style

• Using color Pencils to enhance your work

Materials you'll need

• Gouache paints in the colors - Primary yellow (Lemon yellow), Primary blue (Cerulean blue), Warm yellow, Black, White and Burnt sienna.

• Colored pencils in shades of green, yellow, brown, and orange.

• Watercolor paper - Hot pressed or cold pressed

• Round brushes of size 0 and 4 and rigger brush of size 1

• Pencil & eraser

• A jar of water

• Masking tape or washi tape