Beyond Watercolor – Adventures with Gouache – Painting Florals

We will be focusing on how to paint floral arrangements with Gouache Colors. Gouache is a dynamic medium and can be used as watercolors. It even shares a lot of its properties with Acrylic colors. Its creamy consistency gives a beautiful matt and opaque finish making it a dream to work with.

This class will cover all the basic techniques required to get you started working with Gouache colors. These techniques will make you comfortable with the medium and prepare you for the class project.

We will cover

• Water Control to get the right consistency of the paint.
• Layering Gouache to get the perfect light-to-dark and dark-to-light layering.
• Different Brush Strokes and brushes and how to use them to make florals
• And Finally, we will paint a beautiful class project of a floral arrangement using the knowledge we learned.
• Art supplies I use, including paint brands, paper, and brush types

This class is suitable for beginners as well as for well-practiced artists. As a beginner, you will learn about the fantastic medium i.e. Gouache, and how to confidently use it to create the most magical florals which can also be used as patterns or illustrations.

This class is for you if you’ve

• Always wanted to try Gouache
• Always been fascinated with flowers and their colorfulness and wanted to capture that with colors