How to Paint with Gouache Basics Foundations Still Life Portrait Landscape by Sergio Lopez

How to Paint with Gouache

🎨 Transform your gouache work with insight & intention. In this 10.5+ hour comprehensive course, you’ll explore still life, portrait, and animal subjects while mastering warm & cool light, refined color mixing, and versatile gouache techniques.

You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Control and shift between warm and cool lighting across different subjects

  • 🖌️ Use gouache like watercolor and like opaque paint—expanding your creative flexibility 

  • đź§  Build confident color-mixing habits that support expressive, believable work

  • 🏆 Apply what you learn to a variety of subject types—still life, portraits, animals—with clarity and skill

This course is perfect for artists ready to level up their gouache practice—whether you’re fresh to the medium or experienced but wanting to deepen your technique.

  • Sergio Lopez

    Instructor
  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Sergio Lopez

Art is so important to Sergio because it is the way his soul tells the world, “I am here. The fact that I am here matters.”
Through his own exploration of art and beauty, Sergio has found a direction for his life that connects him to the collective spirit of our human tribe that we all find necessary to connect to. Not only does he find it necessary to be connected, but he also feel a strong urge to add value to it by producing the best art he can.

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