Creative Gouache: Volume 4 - A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploring Opaque Watercolor - Build Your Skills with Layering, Blending, Mixed Media, and More!

Creative Gouache presents beginner tutorials for working with gouache—transparent watercolor’s opaque sister—showing how to paint bright, bold, modern effects, florals, and motifs, and combine it with other mediums.

List of contents

Introduction
1 ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES
Types of gouache, paper, brushes, other materials, alternative surfaces, and protecting gouache
2 BASIC TECHNIQUES
The unusual properties of gouache, layering, finding the perfect consistency, and blending
3 INSPIRED BY NATURE
4 LANDSCAPES
5 LETTERING
6 GOUACHE AND MIXED MEDIA
7 PROJECTS Bullet Journal Spread
Wrapping Paper and Gift Tag
Notebook Cover
Leaf Triptych
Night Garden Dimensional Painting
Butterfly Case
Campfire Panel
Celebration Garland
Painted Jewelry Dish TEMPLATES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX
 

About the author

Ruth Wilshaw is 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.

Instagram: instagram.com/ruthwilshaw
YouTube: youtube.com/c/RuthWilshaw/videos
Website: moderngouache.com
 

Summary

Creative Gouache presents beginner tutorials for working with gouache—transparent watercolor’s opaque sister—showing how to paint bright, bold, modern effects, florals, and motifs, and combine it with other mediums.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Wilshaw
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781631599378
• ISBN: 978-1-63159-937-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 254 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 536 g
• Illustrations: 200 color photos
• Series: Art for Modern Makers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Painting & paintings, Drawing & drawings, Painting, drawing and art manuals, Painting & Art Manuals, Drawing and drawings, Paintings and painting in watercolours or pastels, ART / Techniques / Drawing / General, ART / Techniques / Painting / General, ART / Techniques / Painting / Watercolor