Painting Architecture in Gouache

There's no single way to paint architecture in gouache. For this one, I'm using a warm grisaille over a yellow-ochre primed surface.



During the course of the video (Link to YouTube), I identify 25 tips that you might want to try.

Note that I set up a very slight gradation of the sky color from lighter on the left to darker on the right. The lighter sky on the left provides a better backdrop to the sark telephone pole, and the darker sky on the right sets up for the brightness of the roof.

Jeanette painted a vertical composition of the house, and included a pile of gravel and some old beams in the foreground. She used transparent watercolor with a larger palette that included Hooker's green for the plants and cerulean for the sky. The paper is an ivory-toned Fabriano stock in Erwin Lian's "Perfect Sketchbook."