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3 Easy Aesthetic Gouache Paintings

teacher avatar Arbia Sultana, Art Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:13

    • 2.

      Materials Required

      2:29

    • 3.

      Aesthetic Landscape Painting

      2:04

    • 4.

      Class Project 1

      22:01

    • 5.

      Night Sky Painting

      1:07

    • 6.

      Class Project 2 ( Part 1)

      15:13

    • 7.

      Class Project 2 ( Part 2)

      5:03

    • 8.

      Garden Pathway Painting

      0:28

    • 9.

      Class Project 3

      30:50

    • 10.

      Thankyou

      1:05

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About This Class

This class is all about aesthetic painting, I will be using gouache to paint these paintings.

I have chosen gouache because any artist can make these paintings, let it be an Acrylic Artist / watercolor artist / oil painting artist. This class is open for all. Even for the beginners.

The Materials Required For The Class Is -

  1. 300gsm Watercolor Paper
  2. Artist grade Gouache paints 
  3. Flat end brush 
  4. Round tip brush 
  5. Liner / small round tip brush
  6. Masking tape
  7. 2 Jars of Water
  8. Tissue/ Waste Cloth
  9. Pencil and erase

Dont worry if you don't have gouache and if you are a watercolor artist . Here is one trick on how to use watercolor as gouache - mix white acrylic/ white poster paint with watercolors and use it. It gives you a thick consistency similar to gouache . The only thing that differs is gouache is in a creamy consistency unlike the mixture.

Thankyou keep painting and keep creating.

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Arbia Sultana

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Hello There, this is Dr. Arbia Sultana. An Artist based in Bengaluru, India. I have always loved making art since a little kid, but with time I was busy building my professional career. This pandemic i.e. in 2020 I went back chasing my passion for art. Believe me or not every single day in pandemic I used to paint with watercolours at least for 30 minutes this was like a meditation for me every night before bed. Since then I have improved so much. One of my colleague told watercolour is so hard to work with. Its actually tricky but not hard. Just to teach such people who wants to learn this medium but find it difficult I am here with new classes with loads of tips and tricks. Do check them out and follow me for more.







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1. Introduction : Ethics is a branch of philosophy that describes the beauty of nature, the artist. This is not a watercolor teacher, and today we will be learning three easy, aesthetically pleasing paintings in very few basic steps. Using wash. It does big enough friendly. Anyone can join this class who was looking forward to learn them. Let me tell you about gourd wash, a water-based medium, which can be used as a watercolor, as an acronym. It can be reactivated very easily. It has similar advantages like watercolor, as well as accurate. So it can be used for Redis techniques and various paintings. I welcome you all to my brand new class, Joining me now, and let's create this beauties and experiences, this medium. 2. Materials Required : For making this painting, the materials required is Bruce, true, artist, grade gouache, Carlos. Carlos. We require along with that, I'll be using cans and 300 GSM watercolor paper, which is of size, which we will divide it into an E6 and go postcard size. And then 300 GSM because I want to take people with that, I'll be using a flat brush, size ten round brush off site. And point B. Now the brush already thin liner brush up until masking tape, jar of water, keep water one, you get easily dirty. Another one will be helpful. Along with this, I'll be using mixing palette and tissue. Don't worry if you don't have one. Just use watercolor with white, acrylic or poster Carlo or even gouache. White goulash is commonly used by watercolor artists. Colors I'll be using for making these three paintings. More ceratin blue, white, sap green, olive green, black, rose, brown, orange. And a loop. You will be seeing how I do it. Now. I'll say if I size and then live either, as you can see, I'm equally dividing it. And then using two, I'll be cutting this into two halves and using one of each painting. This is an A6 size watercolor paper. Along with this, I'll be using a hard cardboard behind so that the table doesn't get messy. As you can see, there are two equal halves of the paper. Let's begin by painting the, grab your supplies, and let's start. 3. Aesthetic Landscape Painting : Welcome to the first painting, 33 are going to paint this incredibly beautiful and aesthetically pleasing painting for making this painting for sleep, Let's take down the paper. Here. I'm using 300 GSM watercolor paper and the regular masking tape. If you feel the tape is too sticky, make sure you use it couple of times on the genes fantasies onto the rough plot surface. This causes the stickiness to reduce, which prevents the stripping of the paper. Once I must the tape around the people, I tried to seal it off with my fingers, just like I did this and show that the paint doesn't lead beyond the taped surface. Also, make sure you tape it around in a straight line. Or it might be an issue with the framing. Your background. I am using a bat hard cardboard sheet to prevent the paints to fall onto the table and make it messy. You can use any waste cardboard or a hard book behind the paper. The Carlos I'll be using for painting. Suddenly in blue, More, which is 80% purple and rented person thinks these two colors are readily available in the brushstroke company, which is already so esthetic. These two pins, I call it as a static combo, which looks perfectly so good with each other. Along with this, I'll be using white, sap green, olive green, black, and scarlet. When everything is ready. Let's dive into the actual class. 4. Class Project 1: Let's begin with the painting process. I'll be using a flat brush for painting the background. Using wet on dry and using sand. And I'll be going in a back-and-forth motion and applying it into the background. On 1 third of the people. Make sure you are using more similar to accurately, I mean to say is applied in a thick that big form. By now you must have understood bad board as Smokey medium applied with regards to the watercolors. And let me look living water. That's the macrolides. So make sure you reward. Now, I will be combining more with white space. And then the second half of the people back in lab before will be blended with the blue color. So it will deliver differentiated. Now, blend all these three shapes together to make it as smooth background. As you notice how I'm blending this in one direction, we can move on to blend. Now some of the more I'm like, taking a different color now makes all look nice together. More said, when all the land very smoothly and there's nothing you can differentiate this three colors. I haven't blended properly. This is, I'm going to make clouds in the background. Let's now shift into round brush making the clouds. I'll be starting from the extreme top right corner. Then. I've had the mall with settle in blue without mixing it with white so that it gives up that broken shade. Now, I will paint all this Cloud one by one from the corners and some in-between. The upper one and the new ones. I disliked the pen line. I'm making a cloud in a left to right diagonal motion and also dabbing. I'm not maybe it around, so clock nano, if you want, you can go ahead. But I want this to be looking like an illustration. I just want it to look like a realism. In fact, I'm giving a slight extra lines so that it looks to you. And as I go down, I'm shifting it into the purplish shade that is more blue and white. A bit of light. As you can see as I go down and this making the clouds very far apart. Now, I'll go on top of the cloud with a lighter shade called the previous mixture, the main Google Cloud. And I didn't go and add highlight on top of the clouds. And you're in there in between. A normal white mark. But very lucky. You just want to highlight that it gives meaning. Now I'll also add Carlo cloud and the purplish shade to make it feel at the time to carefully observe how I made this solute. And bottom being picked. Practice couple of times on a rough paper before painting it onto the actual painting. This tree is actually facing the sky. On the ends of the branch are facing towards the sky. This means the painting even more beautiful. And once you have seen, then you go ahead and factor out onto the schedule, can then go ahead and head on back to being fully absorbed first and then painting, there's no heartbeat. So what is slowly and slowly and then painted on actually preventing any sort of mistake is a smaller round brush. And carefully the tip of the brand and also the beetle, the branch or back into the trunk. And be very careful and being patient, doing that. This is water, the actual highlight of the pain. So be patient and got this. One litre done, I'll be shifting to dry round brush. You can use any brush. Bristol are quite apart. I'm using all proper round brush, but no bedding dry brush for using it as a stippling method. As you can see, keeping the brush and appointee perpendicular manner. I'm going ahead and dipping my brush onto the paint and just dabbing the paper. As you can notice, there's like Britain's fighter, but there is an effect shown onto the paper. Closely. I have used olive green bean. So the second round will be with the sap green. You can go head by making it black and then olive green and sap green. This will make the leaves even more high level. But here I'm just using olive green and green ideas. Don't want any brighter effect. I'll be using a mixture of green with wipe, make them leave. Now, but shifting into a smaller brush and appoint the one. I'm just going to add leaves at the extreme corners with Sap green. Now with a mixture of sap green and white. Just go ahead and add leaves. Once that is done using the same brush, I'll go ahead and make white patches onto beliefs which really represent levels. Adding many such wide or broad and wide and bolts of me. Onto this, I'll add rows Carlo and make some spirals to represent it as a floral design. These white dots will help the flower color to highlight a lot. That's why I'm doing it forthright and then rose onto it. As you notice, I'm not adding rose color everywhere. I'm just leaving white coat and I'm just going in a spiral manner. You can just practice with your brush onto a rough paper before doing it. But it is very tiny, so that doesn't even know. Nachman can just make sure you leave some whitespace here. This, I'll go ahead and add some more white mixed with Carlo. Just to make it more highlight there. In the rules, this has still drying. I'll go ahead and make a moon and stars using appointed or C-shaped type moon and appointed dots. Which represents does this blended with the edges? So it doesn't look above a straight line. Try as much, as many as possible. Now, I'll go ahead and died it wide. Make it. I liked the new dose Biden's. By Lord, please. One last time before you remove your masking tape, washer this out to me. You can eat a lot of stuff cluttered, ma'am, you will love it in this garden bed. I'm going ahead and adding paint and gobbling up all my mistakes. Let's remove the masking tape. Now. This is the most part of every painting. Removing the masking tape. Make sure you remote in a slanted manner of those governments to sticky use a hairdryer, lowered onto the tape and then remove it. That will make those stickiness to radios and help you remove the masking tape without tearing the paper and ruining the painting? Yeah, I got to put that on the calendar. And the nipple, you say y'all being built into the class. I love you, but I'm so bad. I can turn them on Thursday. See you in next class. 5. Night Sky Painting : Welcome to a new class. Today we are going to learn how to painless awesome night sky painting. Looking at deep down the people, they didn't. I will explain you the painting. This is a Dustin I mean, uh, 19, the red, the sun has gone down. So it's almost a sunset that the lower half of the beam and above is complete night covered with plants with this beautiful background. The greenery. The corner which gives seven natural, is that it wipes. Let me now tell you the colors required for the painting. I'll be using the same colors which I use for my previous paintings. That is steadily more sap green, olive green, black, wife, rose color. And now I'll be using low, medium and low. Grab your supplies. And let's get started with the painting. 6. Class Project 2 ( Part 1): Let's begin with that. Is that a painting? For this painting, I'll be using a flattened size ten brush. Then also 300 GSM people. As you all know. I'll go ahead and painted in blue are the Gulf most part of the people going back-and-forth motion, applying at the corners as well. I'll go and apply it in a thick consistency so it looks okay, not translucent. And then I'll go ahead and mix more with white and blue mixture and then apply below the loop. So it looks more purplish Carlo and looks like a night Skyping thing. So once this is done, blended properly, especially at the corner, you can see a bluish tinge to the purplish mixture gives a nice wide. Now I'll go ahead and mix bit of mall with a lot of light to make copies of more. And then apply it in the lowermost part of the painting. And blend all these three together to make it more natural and makes sure All Sky. Next, I'll mix more million. And I'll mix it properly and applied onto the publishing that this builds to shade media does gifts and oranges while the paper is wet. I have applied it to where it looks more off a piece to Lauren rather than a bright orange. Now, I'll go ahead and apply more of foreign, describe that as 1 million, maybe a little. Blend them properly. So that does give some smooth mixture of all the followers. Now, I'll go ahead and add a low data, made a low skies onto the painting vertically and add Mendelow and dragging and dabbing motion. As I go up, I tried to make the LO with white to make it bright. Now I'm breakup and apply it onto the pole of the thigh. As you all can see that I haven't blended them properly in the ground. That is because I have just done eat the person. That is just because I know the clouds will covered up the borders. Whichever. Applying more clouds look so beautiful and nice, steady, steady. Onto the blue. I'll mix more with blue and then apply it. You can go ahead and apply in with white mixture onto the blue. But I'm just going with blue anymore. Onto the low clouds and adding a bit of a sheen that There's will move inmates with a low. The Duffy defining the clouds. Now using stippling method that they're using a dry brush or a brush. I'll go ahead and add black color onto it. And keeping the brush in a perpendicular. Dabbing though. Brush onto the paper gives us the slinky. You don't know the test. And then I'll go ahead and add it in 34 numbers. As you can see. Once the black is done, I'll go ahead and add olive green. You can do it once the blacklist completely dry, but I'll go ahead and add olive green when the block is still wet. And I'll just leave some gaps of black and then apply olive green. I'll apply olive green towards the left side rather than going to the right one. You will see the reference later. Make sure you use no water or very little while being fingers. And then I'll go ahead and applied Sap green leaves a bit of space for the olive green to be shown. You'll see the difference liter, as I'm telling you would see the differentiator. You'll see all the three sheets giving light and dark color. As you can see, there is like light cloud area and the doctors and the right side. Now I'll shift to a point on that and add leaves. You can go ahead and add what's happening. Something's getting blended with the background. Scene. Follow them doing green, mixed with white. Highlight the common law and add those leaves and leaves on Google's own diamond. Don't mess up. One's the ballpark is done. I'll go ahead and add leaves into the lower part of the idea. And lower buttermilk get more of a darker green rather than the bot. And you can see the attune has one line and down has a good doctor. Afterwards and go ahead and add white ground. So four flavors. Depends on your boys, how big or how small the light. Once you do, add rules when mixed with white on the glories of the things. You can go for an older fit. I'm adding the rose colored manner. You can also go ahead and do that on gaba. Third light comes in when I do this. No, keep adding spider on the plot. Lindsay, how bloomed up it looks. One is the flowers and leaves are none. I'll go ahead and move on to the Cloud. As you can see, I'm doing CC button half moon. Although I'll add some stars with me. You can go ahead and keep moving. I'm going with this, the thumb pointing thoughts. You can go ahead and make Nyman she starts completely depends on your creativity. Once that is done, I'll go ahead and add more floors. Since I realize there's a video, go ahead and begin the painting in that ETL. Adding more leaves the code. I removed the masking. Afterwards. I'll go ahead and apply more and make it more beautiful. 7. Class Project 2 ( Part 2): Now I'll slowly remove the masking tape. You might have heard my tips and tricks in my previous painting. One more depth as that remove the teeth in a slant manner so that the paper doesn't report. And after I removed the day, I realized there's a space for which we will cover up later after moving though. Isn't it looking? So let's add some more. And some dark roses without glide. Does directly applying rules. Then a mixture of blue and white. The input as many as you want. And it couldn't be better if you put a lot of roses onto this. It looks almost wound. Fast-forward this, but as you can see that the rose color is giving her darker shade, which means these roses are behind our inner shadow effect. The rules. Florence. Go ahead and make some rules with white. Biden's onto it. I can see almost highlighting that color. I'm using a very pointy sharp brush and you can drag this onto a rough before. And then Laura, that's a very good spider. Once that is done, I'll go ahead and make some leaves. You can use a lighter or darker shade of green. I prefer you to use in our watery consistency so that it looks shadowy. And make sure to share your class project. Below. That's it for this painting. Thank you for watching. See you in the next class. 8. Garden Pathway Painting : Coming to the last painting of this das be painting this beautiful path within extract load that can be used as a CMO. I just taped down the People and we'll go ahead with the sketching the next five. 9. Class Project 3: This painting is going to be a real time painting. So follow me along and let's draw and paint this on the lessons which we learned in the first two classes will apply onto this painting and made this beautiful painting. The extra stuff which I have added, you might have understood, because it's really simple. And by following this painting every step, you might have understood how to paint this. Though things like shadow, pathway, the falling leaves, the side, grass, grasses and all. I hope you enjoyed this real-time painting. I would love to see your class projects. Make sure you share them. The class project section. If you have any doubt, you can come down so that I can reply. All the techniques we have used in the first two classes, we have glide your wet on wet, wet on dry, stippling, rose making of Florida making everything. I would also love to see if you have recreated any other painting using these techniques. And also my method of painting, the masking tape slowly. I hope you enjoyed painting all the three paintings. And also this real-time painting. 10. Thankyou : Hey, we're finally done with all the three class projects. I hope you enjoyed painting along with me. Make sure to share your paintings in the class project section. And I would love to see them. And if you have any grays, you can just coming down in the discussion box so that I can answer them. If you want to be connected with me, then you can follow me on Instagram. My handle is there. Thank you for watching and follow me for more upcoming classes on skill share. Until next class. By keep painting and keep learning.