5 Easy Gouache Bookmarks

1. Introduction: In the month of July, we artists celebrate World Watercolor Medium. Wash is a water based medium and Gas comes in the form of watercolor and in acrylic form. Considering the family of watercolor here I present you with a new course on five easy bookmark paintings. Using Gosh. Bosch is an opaque watercolor, that is perfect for creating vibrant and colorful paintings, and a versatile medium that can be used to create a variety of effects from nopome paintings to an intricate illustration. Hello artist. This is Arba Sultana, an artist and an artist eucator based in India. I started teaching paintings when the COVID hit the wall, and I'm so glad that I started. Many of the beginner artists find my classes helpful, and I'm so happy to see you all join my class. In today's course, I'll be showing you how to create five different types of wash paintings that are perfect for bookmarks. The first painting is a black and white leaf painting using black and white mixture, we will be making incredibly beautiful and expressive paintings. The second type of painting is an ink illustration. Ink illustrations are a great way to add details and interest to your bookmarks. I'll be showing you how to create an ink illustration using gosh and black ball pink marker and how to use different strokes to create Burgess illustration. The third type of painting is a floral one. Floral paintings are perfect for bookmarks as they are beautiful and colorful. I'll be showing you how to create a floral painting using wash and how to use different brushes to create different texture and effects. The fourth type of painting is a landscape painting. Landscape paintings are a great way to create a sense of depth and perspective in your paintings. I'll be showing you how to create a landscape. Painting using Gauche and how to use different techniques to create different effects. The fifth and final type of painting is a shadow painting. Shadow painting are a great way to add deep and interest to your paintings. I'll be showing you how to create a shadow painting using Gauche and how to use different techniques or stones to create different effects. Before we start painting, I'll be taking you over to the supplies required. And then throughout this course, I'll be sharing you tips and tricks to help you get started and get most of your gauche paintings. I'll be showing you how to mix colors, how to use different brush strokes and how to create different effects. By the end of this course, you will be having five beautiful gauche paintings that can be used to decorate bookmark. Grab your supplies and let's get started. 2. Materials Required: Let's begin with this applies your am using gouache readily available Bookmark people of 300 GSM. If you don't have this bookmark paper, you can use in bite-size, can cut the A5 size into half so vertically and music. And also you can take goddess with Masking tape. You can go ahead and news anything in between from 165 DSM to 300 GSM people. You're also using an Artist grade book. And Artist grade is a wonderful thing. It gives you amazing wife and Kylo. And it's very soft and moist. So you can even every bad Masking tape is an optional supply. Am using on the thing Palette for Jar of Water and now coming to the brushes and other stuff, amusing Paul flatten, brush size. You can use any Flat end brush you have is just for the background. For now, I'm using a Round tip brush. Investing in this Brushes, very essential. I have this three very important brushes. That is a flattened brush around tip brush, and a Liner brush, which is very, very important. And Liner brush here I'm using a Trump stationarity and it's 2.4 brush. And apart from this, I'll be using a black marker. You can also use a black ball pen and white gel pen. This is again optional. If you have any music, if you don't, how it's optional. And then Benton, apart from this you require or tissue or Cotton Club, that's it for the supplies. And grab your supplies and let's get started. 3. Leaf Painting: Before joining this course, Let's begin with, of course, painting your am using or jelly, which is of great Carlo. For this, we need a special equipment to dispense the pain. That is Palette Knife. As you can see, I'm using of fresh brush without any Carlo directly dispensing it and it's not coming out of Palette Knife is essential for removing or dispensing the Palette Knife. Why? Because events from fungus formation increments from Mixing up both Carlos, it prevents from unnecessary damage to the rest of the pain. Yeah. You're I have this pen, some paint onto the Mixing Palette using Palette Knife. If you don't have the shade, that is great, you can go ahead and make black and white together to form gray mixture and applied to the background. You can always use a coupon. Coupon is very good because it prevents from fungus formation is driven from mixing of colors and prevents from drying up of pain. So yeah. Do you observe good. Then jelly cups. So you're am using Flat end brush and go oriented and adding few drops of water to make it gouache consistency. And then going ahead and laying out a flat wash. As you can see, distributing the color evenly and covering up the edges. You can always go ahead and add it into brush. And Tiana, we want. If you add too much of Bordeaux, it becomes transparent until me tell you, I'm reading if you can add equal amount of water, any amount of porsche, it depends on how dry the gouache paint, then use it. The before and then in this phase, your enemy, because I want OK go. I'm feeling some box and then so I go ahead and no one will leave. Once the corners or borders have done an evenly spread, the paint It looks lossy when it's wet. And once it is dried, it looks so gouache dries faster. So let's wait for few minutes, are evenly spread the paint, as you can see, I've gone ahead and added two layers and have equally distributed the paint without leaving some spaces. So for further detailing, you can use white or black monkey. But I'll go ahead and use a Liner brush called painting. The details. If you don't know how to use a Liner brush, you can always go ahead and use Marcos. See, live in a few minutes. This has completely dry and it gives you a matte finish. Now I'm using a wide gouache and the Liner brush. I'm making it into a consistency of Bosch, which is lower, but not so flowable. It's a bit but not too transparent as well. Removing excess water once I have lifted up and the brush, I'm drawing a line for the leaf. And then you can see I'm drawing towards few lines, like before you go ahead and add leaves of white and black color. If you haven't noticed, I'm not pressurizing the brush very tightly. As you can see the brush and very loose and I'm going ahead and adding loose. Very likely. Not so pressed. It's giving me very light strokes and very small thin lines like this one. Go ahead and add leaves. It's not necessarily that you have to paint the leaves in one direction, that is from top to bottom or bottom to top. You can go ahead and add leaves in any direction, left or right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top. And Jose enough cold one, as you can see, will hurt and explore the strokes and enjoyed the Painting. You are done with white. Let's go ahead. Again. Add some water droplets into this and making to absorb and consistency not and don't make it transmitting. Be afraid. That's all for this painting. Wasn't that easy. You can add more black color or white color leaves wherever you warn or even exaggerate the painting. As you can see, I'm trying to figure out where to add. But once you're done, you feel okay, this is good to go. Then that's it. We are done with the Painting. Don't add too many leaves and make it crowded. Far better. Leaves are fine. So yeah, that's it for this painting. Let's remove the good part of this gouache, but it does variable and it's very easy to remove, as you can see, this removing it from my fingers. It looks so gorgeous. See you in the next Painting? 4. Floral Illustration: Hello, Artist, welcome to the second painting. For this, I'll be using only one color that has hot pink. You can go ahead and choose whichever color you like, but let it BY print enough. So for this I'll be using or drawing, it's going to be a line drawing. It, you can see it as Illustration, ink illustration or Ben Illustration, anything. But here it is gonna be a line drawing. I'm drawing of. It is a Paeony. You can go and row or rows or some clock and seeing this on Pinterest and then going ahead and draw it. You can use any difference image and draw. You can go ahead and pause this video and go ahead and slowly draw. And I'll also be adding all stem and leaves. And do this slowly because after this, if you do with Ben, be okay. If you're directly, then you might make a mistake which is not reasonable. I could say one of the pencil drawing is done. Let's go ahead and praise out with a black marker or Black Ball open. It just makes sure Water will mark or you choose, it should be fulminant and ensure naught. Come out the internode be like a gel pen. Because when you erase the pencil marks, it should and it should flow in the ancient flu or make the paypal dot. I hope you understand what I'm trying to tell. Once we start tracing out, we will also be adding some full linked to the flower, as you can see. So for Link to do leaf and also a vein to do leaf. And now I'll go ahead and add the patterns for this. Also. I'll be adding some urine therefore links. And simultaneously, I'll go ahead and do the shading part. It's gotten snot going to be shading, It's going to be lined, will just be adding line to lot, be doing the hatching technique or shading technique here. Just go ahead and use the simple, basic knowledge that line drawing. Once I trace out, I'll just tell you what I'm gonna do. So here, again, I'll be adding the links. As you can see. I'm just going ahead and adding a curved lines. Urine in there at the corners. Feel for all these four links will go ahead and paint. The paint not be shading and complete dark will go ahead and fill out that space in black pen. The LU, the same thing with the next flower Now coming to the line, but you're, I'll go ahead and do some lines as you can see, I'll go ahead and with the sheep. Lines have to be directed. I'll go ahead and add them. As you can see, is gonna be aligned but directed in the shape of the leaf or a large. And for the stem, I'll go ahead and add lines. As you can see, I'm just adding lines urine and connecting it the corners. So it's not a complete line from top to bottom. And some they're connecting and some where it's losing out the connection. Now, I haven't done with this stuff. Now let me erase this. So the video was shaking, so I haven't just remove that part. Yeah. Now coming to fly, as you can see what I'm doing, I'm just adding lines in the direction of the petals where it was the fault of petals are, I'm going ahead and filling it with black ink. Let it be around motion or straight-line motion, anything we're not going to use a stream or shading techniques such as hatching or anything. They're just going to fill it up wherever the fault. And for the rest of the petal, we're going to add some lines in the direction of the vacuum moves. We're not filling it out. The only bottom part will be darker and about part will be lighter. And as you can see, I'm going ahead and filling it up. You foresee the painting or drawing, how I do it. And then go ahead and do it. For any flower, you should do the same. The center part will be darker. So the lines should be concentrated. As you go far and far. It should be like broader. The line should be separated with space. And more of white-space should be seen on the periphery at the corners. The full link. I'll go ahead and pull it up. Take your time and do it How gorgeous It's looking. Now, let's spend some hot pink and I'll go ahead and paint. For this. Again. I'll be using Round tip brush and Liner brush. But before we paint will make this into global consistency. Sure, I'm adding a bit of white to the hot pink mixture. This is domain the librarian TO bit lighter. You can go ahead and directly put hot pink. I'll be adding this mixture onto the paper with Round tip brush. Wherever though broader surface of writers seen, I'll go ahead and use this brush and wherever there is detail in fat, low ahead and use a Liner brush so that doesn't mix up. And drawing is not true. And as you can see, You have to do it very carefully. Take your time and do it and be gentle and don't lose your patients. And lead to pain being a flowable consistency and unpaid but not too thick Variable, you feel the paint has gone into its transparent shade. There you can go ahead with one more layer and do it. But at the edges of the drawing, be careful so that the ink doesn't mix up the dough. Painting. In this looking so I Brinton gorgeous. That's it for this painting and let's remove it. And you can use this one anytime. You can go ahead and keep it as a deck copies as well. Thank you all for joining this class. I'll see you in the next Painting. 5. Floral Painting: Welcome to the third painting. For this painting, the inspiration is from the nature and also from the flower, which is on my people that those rules. So for this painting, for the background, I'll go ahead and add flesh Jin Carlo. If you don't have the Scholar, just mix some orange with a bit of yellow and white. You can always go ahead and mix some Carlos and make your own Carlo and experiment with it. And then go ahead and use the backdrop for this. I'll go ahead and use a lighter shade. So I have chosen our flesh Jin Carnap and using a flatten brush, I'll go ahead and clean. Firstly, you would follow. Again, the consistency should be in OB consistency. It should neither be too thick or 23 can be flowable. And simultaneously the brush strokes should be even. What up the edges and there is any transparency. Go ahead and add one more layer and let it dry for few minutes. And then we'll go ahead and add the detailing pump. That is we'll start with branches and not for that, we'll be using some sap green. The background is dry and it's giving the Mac finished look. I'll go ahead and add the sap green to the people or this, I'll be using a Liner brush. As you can see, I've just drawn a line. And then as I have started, I have started with the our line for which I have pressurize the brush and as I go to the tip and this losing it off, like picking up the brush up and simultaneously giving less pressure to the brush so that it gives me a thin line. And if you notice two to three brush strokes, you can see that the first one, the first time as the thicker one, as I go to the tip and just lifting it off for which the pressure is reduced and it's giving me a thin line. And for the places where I have started, I'll just go ahead and add all pickle line and the depth and it will be attending line. So add as many branches as you want and do it very slowly and add curvy lines. That shouldn't be perfect. It's okay for it is not perfect because nature is always beautiful with imperfections Flowers and you'll be using our rules, Kylo, you can go ahead and use a red color or an orange or whatever color you like. And you can do any flower for this. I'll be doing for this, I'll be using arose cargo, which is shade in the Brustro Artist grade paint. You can use a pink color as well. Using a Liner brush. Same, I'll go ahead and add rounds of goods everywhere. Branch I'll add two to three or as many as possible, basically, but just in around shape. I'm not adding like Coco, telophase or anything. I'm just going ahead. Inner arm motion, randomly, name as many so-called Task Force on the branches. Little's law is trying, I'll go ahead and dispense and white Carlo and using a Liner brush and I'll go ahead and add some lines into that Jiangxi. As you can see, false boom. And then for this, I'm keeping the brush in a bullpen diploma. No, I'm just adding a C-shape like one dot. And then to see shapes are the coordinators and remove the excess of water before you do it. And then go ahead and again Now the flowers are done and the branches are done. So let's go ahead and add some leaves. For this again, I'll be using some sap green and using a Liner brush itself. I'll go ahead and make some leaves for this. As you can see, I'm just pressing down the Bristol and then just dragging out for a pointed tip. You can notice few practice and then go ahead and pay this dabbing at first and then dragging and lifting up slowly to give me a pointed end. I'll go ahead and fill up as many as possible. And yeah, that's all for the patient enough and do it. Because at the end it's gonna be a gorgeous painting. Your own views. The knee monster strokes. It's oil wet on wet and wet on dry technique. So go ahead and do it slowly. If you wish to add detail in, go ahead and do as many leaves as possibly until you're satisfied it in pain. But just don't make it crowding. And that's all for this painting. Let's remove the papal care really and neon. That's all for this gorgeous, simple, easy painting. And it's more hand with the photon. And I'll see you in the next one. On. So make sure you're shadow paintings. And project section or in you can also tag me on Instagram. I leave the handle and the end. So make sure you check that out and thank you so much. And joining in and seeing the next one 6. Landscape Painting: Hello, Welcome to the fourth painting. For this painting, well, the knowing all landscape painter. Landscape has a different depth and also the perspective keeping in mind offered will go ahead. And before we go ahead and paint, Let's clear out some methods on the desk and and do it. And for those I'll be using of cobalt blue Flat Flat shoes and all flattened brush and gobbling up the edges monthly and in an obese man, no. Ahead and paint. Before the background rise, I'll go ahead and add life. Using a round brush in a dabbing motion. As you can see, it's giving texture of some bubble type and simultaneously of cloud shape. And you can see it's a shade or flight and blue mix together. So this has to be done when the paper and draw out this market dried. For the smaller clouds. I'll go ahead and give left to right strokes. As you can see, I'm lifting up up and sounds that I'm just giving lions. And the cloud color has become complete blue. I'll just go ahead and add some light onto the Cloud. This gives the sense of depth into the painting. Into the Cloud. You might have noticed, I'm not covering them in the background to be seen. Am using a left to right job and odor dabbing motion. You can see I'm just adding white. The clouds are dry. I'll go ahead and add a house with a black pain. This is gonna be a silhouette. Not all the clouds are. All right. So I just go ahead and been added. Secondly, electron is gonna be a house here Next, using it onto brush itself, I'll go ahead and add lines. You can use a Liner brush as well. I'm going to add the button lines. As you can see, industry to, might have noticed how many wires are lying on top of the houses. In the same way we are depicting here. And you can also use markers. Are Liner brush here I'm using my round brush. Round brush has a great, so I'll be using this. And if you're using around brush, make sure you use it very lightly. And only the, the, the brush is covered up the edges. Make sure the edges are covered. They just play an important role. The brush to the Liner brush. Your, I'll be using sap green and show for the base layer of similar to the local or false painting. The corners. And about that, I'll go ahead with us at premature or if I'm painting with light, you can see an alignment that going and make some lines. You can do this and the edges, depth of coconut tree. Since the leaves have gone darker, sap green, and go ahead and paint over it and also add some more leaves. Yeah. Begin length flow. Now to add depth into the house, I'll be using a low bar and join, lying and making it look I love good. I'm slant line, horizontally aligned, just making it as colorful as possible. Looking good, just, and That's it for this painting. We have added that. We have added pulse backfill for this. And see you in the last painting. I hope you-all enjoyed this painting as much as I did. 7. Shadow Painting: Hello, Welcome to the last painting of this series. For this painting, we'll be painting a shadow. The shadow painting if you haven't noticed or ventral, there are various painting. It gives so much of an offence and also the time day and so much of the base layer, I'll be using yellow ocher and painting a flat wash. Dislike other paintings we have painting will be going ahead and painting an opaque layer. And they shouldn't be any transparency and covering up the edges evenly. Go ahead and paint. The base layer has dried. Go ahead and add burnt sienna for this bond here. Now we're going to use it for the Windows. I'll be shifting my brush, Round tip, brush in, go ahead and draw the outline on the drawing of the window. But I'm doing it directly. So first notice and then paint. You can also refer Pinterest for a more ideas. If you might have noticed that for a line am using her very light strokes and four, because such stroke and pressing the Bristol of the brush against the papal very hard leaf so that it covers up the space as much as possible. For the line you see I'm just going into a light stroke, but for covering though, I'm just dragging and dabbing it very hardly so that it covers up. You can also use a Flat end brush for this and see how I'm doing it and then go ahead and paint Once we're done with the window, we'll mix some black into the burnt sienna and then go ahead and make a box and add some leaves and branches and oil because I'm Lars. Once I'm done with the basic structure, I'll go ahead and dab onto the branches so that it gives and Honeywell layer. And it gives sense of depth or to the Painting. No list open here, but then I'll go ahead and add more depth into the Painting. I have using a lighter shade of T9. And going ahead and painted the part of it on the left side, as you can see, there's a two different shade. And now I'll also give some depth on to the windows and all for making it via am using yellow ocher and burnt sienna and going ahead and do the windows at the edges. And also you can use dry brush to poor coming from left to right shared value when to do it. This is where you can do or try brush stroke from left to right. Or you can see, I'm dragging the brush from left to right, my living space. You can see disliked normal lines, but this is very transparent Carlo for you can tell the cell glazing, glazing technique that is covering up one layer with another simultaneously, both the colors seen. And that's it for this painting. I hope you-all enjoyed this painting series. Let me know so that I can make photo class on it. And also the fellow artists can join. And thank you-all for joining. 8. Final Thoughts: Artisan dark, until it's created. Thank you all for joining in your book Five, Easy bookmark or Susan Walsh. I hope you got to learn some new things and you're satisfied with your paintings. I hope you have enjoyed your time. Like I did when I was painting. And I would love to see your painting. So make sure you share your paintings in the project section. Or you can tag me on Instagram. I leave the handle here. And also you can use to that though, fellow artists who is interested to learn and we're headed with this course, can either speed this by courses where very basic, big enough. And so I just want you to learn as well as practice and going through it and having a good time. Thank you once again to join this course. I hope you all enjoyed it and share your thoughts and see you in the next course. And then keep practicing, creating and keep painting