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Yosemite Value Studies in Gouache

🏞️ Dive into the drama of light and dark in one of nature’s grandest stages. In this 1+ hour gouache demo, Tayler Olivas leads you through a series of value-studies set in Yosemite National Park—showing how a limited value palette can sharpen your vision and add clarity to even the most complex landscape. 


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Focus intensely on value relationships (lights, mid-tones, darks) so your forms read clearly even before color steps in.

  • 🧠 Simplify complicated terrain into readable planes of value and shape—so giant cliffs, forests, and skies become manageable.

  • 🔍 Use gouache’s versatility to make swift, confident marks and study environment at a pace that builds intuition.

  • 🌟 Transfer this value-first mindset into your color work—making everything you paint afterwards stronger, clearer, and more intentional.


Ideal for landscape artists or anyone who wants to deepen their foundational skills—this demo helps you see value like a pro and paint with more structure and impact. Runtime: 1+ hour

  • Tayler Olivas

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Tayler Olivas

Tayler is a Visual Development Artist, Art Director, and professor in the film and games industry. Tayler's work has been showcased in numerous games, cinematics, and marketing materials for brands like Gucci, Team Fight Tactics, Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games, Riot Games and Elodie. When not working on client projects, Tayler teaches at Laguna College of Art and Design in Southern California.

Tayler's expertise spans various digital media, including Adobe Photoshop CC, Blender, Zbrush, 3DCoat, Substance Painter, and Marmoset Toolbag, as well as traditional media like gouache, watercolor, oil paint, and markers (Copic and Prismacolor). Tayler holds a bachelor's degree in game art from Laguna College of Art and Design, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

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