Gouache Tutorial Video: How to Paint a Mountain

My latest gouache tutorial is now available on my Youtube channel. In this video, I’m painting a mountain scene using a limited palette of four Holbein Acryla Gouache colors: Pale Lilac, Burnt Sienna, Misty Blue and Ash Blue (plus Titanium White). This palette gives me lots of opportunity for value exploration and color harmony.

I’m falling ever deeper in love with Acryla Gouache. They’re wonderful to work with - velvety, opaque, rich, matte, layerable, vibrant colors. They dry quickly once applied but can stay workable for days or even weeks on the Masterson’s Sta-wet palette, so there is no waste! Combined with some colored pencil and Panpastel, I think I’ve found my favorite illustration media. I’ve recently been working with Panpastel and I’m so excited about exploring it more in future videos.

I show my palette while I’m mixing colors and explaining the whole process from beginning to end. Check it out and please subscribe if you’d like to see more!

Painting a snowy mountain scene using four colors of Holbein Acryla Gouache: Pale Lilac, Burnt Sienna, Ash Blue, Misty Blue, plus Titanium White. Amazing photo by eberhard grossgasteiger from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-snowy-mountain-1366919/ Please subscribe to my channel to see more painting and drawing demos!

Painting the First Tomato of the Summer in Gouache on Paper

This week I painted a tomato sandwich and made a video with commentary of the entire process from the drawing all the way through to the finished painting! Let me know if you have any questions or technique videos you'd like to see and please feel free to subscribe to my Youtube channel to be notified of future videos.

Birdhouse and Rose Mallow Gouache Painting Demo

Here's a time-lapse video of a gouache painting of a weathered old birdhouse in my garden with rose mallow around it. 

Here's the photo from my garden that I used for reference (below). As you can see, I moved some of the groups of flowers closer to the birdhouse.

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Hope you enjoy this video of my painting process and please subscribe to my Youtube channel if you'd like to see more video tutorials!