Take your art in a bold new direction—go gouache! InCreative Gouache, artist Ruth Wilshaw shares her step-by-step techniques for creating brilliantly vibrant effects with this easy-to-master medium, a perfect companion for transparent watercolor.
In this comprehensive guide to gouache, you’ll:
- Get an overview ofessential materials and surfaces.
- Learn basichandling and coloring-mixing techniques, includinglayering, creating blends, and adjusting opacity, plustroubleshooting tipsfor common challenges, such as dealing with shifts in color and value from wet to dry.
- Explore how topaint fun, simple motifs, flowers, butterflies, landscapes, and lettering.
- Discoverfun gouache techniques, such asadding texture and painting gradients and blends.
- Learn how toincorporate other mediumswith gouache, including paint pens, colored pencil, and watercolor.
- Use what you learn tocreate inspiring projectssuch as dimensional artwork, clay décor pieces, and cheerful banners.
See what you can create withgorgeous, wall-to-wall colorwithCreative Gouache!
Perfect for creative beginners, the books in theArt for Modern Makers seriestake a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.
Ruth Wilshawis a self-taught gouache artist who loves to encourage others to give this quirky medium a go. She enjoys painting modern landscapes and creating art inspired by nature. Ruth shares tutorials and videos with her growing number of fans and followers on Instagram and YouTube, giving tips and advice on painting with gouache for artists of all levels, especially beginners. Her videos have been viewed more than 10 million times. Ruth lives in the United Kingdom.
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