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Acrylic / gouache
Acrylics and Gouache on the Go
Painting opaquely outdoors: a compact kit, working from dark to light, shapes instead of lines, a limited palette, evening and night scenes, the 30-minute sketch.
6 Modules · about 130 min
- 1Opaque Paint Outdoors: Kit, Palette, DryingYou'll learn how gouache and acrylic differ when you're out and about, which mini kit you really need, and which surfaces work for opaque paint.15 min
- 2From dark to light: the reverse orderYou'll learn how to work with acrylics and gouache in the sequence underpainting – shadows – midtones – highlights, and how to use white so it doesn't turn chalky.20 min
- 3Shapes Instead of Lines: Form Through ColourYou'll learn to build a subject without a single contour stroke – purely through colour shapes that meet one another.20 min
- 4Limited Palette: Harmony Through MixingYou learn to mix every city colour from just five tubes and to hold your picture together with a shared underlying tone.20 min
- 5Evening and Night: Painting LightYou'll learn to build night scenes from a dark underpainting and to add light as the final, strongest step.25 min
- 6The 30-Minute Sketch: Sequence and Clean-UpYou learn to carry an opaque-colour sketch through outdoors in thirty minutes on a fixed schedule, to stop in time, and to treat your materials so they survive the next outing.30 min
Pictures from the courses
These pictures were made in painting courses with children. All painted by hand, none on a computer. Click to enlarge.
Published with the kind permission of the young painters.