Easy peasy clouds with toned paper and gouache… I have found a fun fast way to paint accurate clouds with gouache on toned paper. In this workshop, I will use gray paper, watercolor, and my light-value gouache palette. Let’s take a look at what can be done… I will also probably demo some techniques with
Search Results for: gouache
Gouache Landscapitos on Toned Paper
Learn how to paint quick landscapitos on toned paper with watercolor and gouache. For this workshop, we will use the light value gouache palette for the lights and watercolor for the darks. The system is fast, simple, and fun. To create your own gouache kit like the one John Muir Laws is using, please view Read More
Oh My Gouache! Part 2
Learn a practical and portable system for using gouache in your nature journal. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will review Jack’s gouache system and learn how to use our new gouache palettes with watercolor on toned paper. Read More
Mini Gouache landscapes on toned paper
Learn how to paint quick landscapeitos on toned paper with watercolor and gouache. For this workshop, we will use the light value gouache palette for the lights and watercolor for the darks. The system is fast, simple, and fun. I recommend creating your own light value gouache kit as described in the Oh My Gouache
Oh My Gouache! Part 1
Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will learn Jack’s gouache system and learn how to set up our own gouache palette. What paints should I use? How can I avoid the paint cracking and falling out of the palette? We recommend that you wait Read More
Gouache for Nature Journaling, part 1
Learn a practical and portable system for using gouache in your nature journal. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will learn Jack’s gouache system and learn how to set up our own gouache palette. What paints should I use? How can I avoid the
Gouache for Nature Journaling, part 2
Learn a practical and portable system for using gouache in your nature journal. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will review Jack’s gouache system and learn how to use our new gouache palettes with watercolor on toned paper. Bring: your gouache palette (made after
Using shapes to construct a drawing (how to draw a heron with gouache)
The body of a resting heron is confusing to understand anatomically. Instead of a head, neck, shoulder, wings, and chest, see the body parts as abstract shapes to copy and assemble. Focus on the unique shape of each of the parts. Observe the posture, proportions, and angles of the head and body mass. Draw light Read More
How to use gouache in your field journal (video workshop)
Video workshop on how to use gouache with the Nature Journal Club. Filmed at the Santa Clara Valley Audubon center in Cupertino on February 11, 2015. Videography by Ashok Khosla. Read More
Fiscal Shrike: drawing with shapes and gouache
In most drawings, you will use both a structural understanding of your subject and simplifying three-dimensional forms to flat shapes to help you draw what you see. In this gouache illustration, I switch back and forth between these ways of seeing as the drawing progresses. This step-by-step demonstration explores both how to get your subject on to paper and Read More