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Painting with Gouache: Create Poetic Illustrations

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Overview

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Discover the creative process behind painting with gouache and illustrate playful scenes that express your inner world
  • Introduction
  • Dipping into the World of Gouache
  • Get Creative and Sketch
  • Painting with Joyful Colors
  • Adjusting to the Digital World
  • Final project
With gouache painting, each brushstroke is an opportunity to open a new door and express your emotions. Illustrator and designer Cagla Zimmermann uses the medium to develop her playful style and spread happiness and hope through her work. Her art has been sold around the world and turned into prints and stationery.

In this course, Cagla shares her expertise in creating captivating artwork with gouache painting techniques. Learn to mix, blend and layer colors to express your inner world and bring your ideas to life on the page.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Materials and Brush Care
  • Mixing
  • Layering 1
  • Layering 2
  • Blending
  • Detail Brushes Are Not Scary
  • How to Get Inspired
  • How to Compose an Illustration
  • Sketching the Final Illustration
  • The Tail with Flowers 1
  • The Tail with Flowers 2
  • The Houses: Mixed Media 1
  • The Houses: Mixed Media 2
  • The Last Details 1
  • The Last Details 2
  • Scanning and Editing the Original Art
  • How to Use Social Media Effectively
  • Illustration with gouache for beginners

Taught by

Cagla Zimmermann

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