Easy GOUACHE step by step for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS ✶ coastal cliffs

[@j9hnck]

I love black cats! I’ve had four, they’re so beautiful

[@lenatomas9266]

Good day Sarah, you always make painting with gouache paints like a cool walk in the park. It's just amazing and encourages me to continue pushing myself.

[@marinawade9225]

I loved this bag with pencils! So much fun when it opens its mouth... hahaha...

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Haha me too! He's my desk buddy

[@j9hnck]

Hey Sarah, this is my first time watching and am wanting to play more with my gouache. Only have done a few paintings and am frustrated with it probably because I’m coming from regular watercolor use. Originally acrylics. I see you barely use water. I realize I probably won’t get an answer back as I sounds like you are going after some fine goals which inspires me. You’re just what I needed to find here on KZbin. I’m a regular searching for beginner to intermediate although I’ve been painting for 20 years. Not regularly. Hearing about the stories and illustrations you want to do and well…. So much more to say but I admire your interests and should checkout your vlog. You make this look easy and it looks like u put out way more from the tube than I do … perhaps bc I’m thinking watercolor. I’ll try your way. Much luck and I want to jump ahead to see what you’re up to but need to watch more here before you progress even more.

[@zenkittystudiowithdarklily1110]

Such a beautiful kitty! Thanks for sharing your process. I’m just getting back into gouache after a long hiatus, like a year, so it’s learning all over again.

[@lilithblackwater309]

Hi There from Texas. I just started with gouache and love it! I think you paint so beautifully. Your talent for creating mood and atmosphere are amazing 😮 I will watch as much of your videos as I can while I paint along. Thank you so much for your great lessons and tips for super beginners like me 😊

[@jay-og3lh]

이런 비디오 좋아요! 매번 잘 보고 있어요👍🏼 thank you❤

[@deborahmeyers7839]

Your cat is adorable gorgeous l I very beautiful artwork too xx

[@tonihulick1886]

Yay! Love watching your gouache painting techniques. I am mainly a watercolorist getting ready to dive into the gouache pool. Please keep making these...very inspirational. As if Colorado wasn't beautiful enough...taadaa we get Scotland!

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Haha thanks Toni. Glad you enjoy 🙂 have fun with gouache! I think it's a nice transition from watercolor.

[@kelseywood1582]

You are my favorite KZbin star!

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Star?? LOL thanks

[@aparnachaudhuri2475]

Love your art works.. it has inspired me to start gouache🙂👍👍.. great work..

[@melissaamyx2196]

As always, I LOVE your videos! And showing what you've painted lately at the end... a total feast for my senses! Thank you Sarah for sharing your gift with us, you continue to inspire me to keep painting!

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Wow thank you for such a kind message 🥰

[@charlesnunley3597]

Love your art. I very much like your way of teaching and am now a big fan. I'm self taught and learning so much more from your videos.

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Thank you and welcome! :D

[@KaylyNyman]

Love it when a new vlog pops up from you! Your work is so stunning, can't wait to see all your MerMay pieces this month!

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Thank you! The Mermay drawings are so challenging for me 😭 well anatomy in general. I'm so out of practice

[@foreseengust]

I love your cat, he's so smart!

[@kerry5586]

It made me want to weep this video: seeing your beautiful loving cat that is no longer with you.

[@louisapdjones]

I'm using mason jars for tube storage (James Gurney tip). Keep sharing the challenges. I learn something every time.

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

I’ve started to store tubes inside airtight containers (each medium gets its own container), and they stack perfectly on my shelf so it’s working great!

[@noreenlatimer8193]

Stunning. 😍

[@CaitlinBongers]

I've been getting into gouache and landscapes lately and I'm so glad I found your channel! I hope your channel will grow a lot soon so you can earn some money and have some more time for it :) Keep up the lovely work ♥

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Thank you! I am glad you are enjoying it :)

[@MsVanorak]

i put stiff tubes into a tray of water for a few hours with the top slightly loosened. it will suck a bit of moisture back in.

[@nauci]

My bf has been working crazy long hours and I've been enjoying using it to paint and game and feel constantly guilty that I don't just miss him all the time ahahaha P.S. this is beautiful!

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

It just makes me feel better about my workaholic tendencies 😁

[@Cobaltblueprism]

That bag and those kitties are adorable. You are beyond talented. Do you like/make abstract paintings?

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Thank you so much! I LOVE abstract art. Before I started with landscapes, I painted abstract painting a little bit here and there as a form of therapy. I follow tons of abstract artists because it sooths my soul.

[@Cobaltblueprism]

@@SarahBurnsStudio Me too. Abstract is therapeutic for sure. Could you do a watercolor or gouache paint-along of your abstracts and share some of your past recent abstract work? Which abstract artists do you follow?

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

@@Cobaltblueprism I probably wouldn't do a tutorial and paintalong for it. My current faves are Alice Sheridan, Andrea Soos, Emma Lindstrom, Victoria Wylie

[@larrymisiak915]

Do you use watercolor and gouache interchangeably?

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Typically I just dilute the gouache for an underlayer, before using thicker gouache on top. But yes, you can mix watercolor and gouache.

[@nauci]

Landscape painting feels like "ez mode" to me because I'm a portrait painter, though I don't nail the values and shapes 1/10th so well as you do. It just feels so much easier because precision is nearly irrelevant in comparison to making someone recognizable. I'm so excited to see your MerMay pieces

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

I wouldn't say irrelevant, there are other issues in play with landscapes especially when incorporating architecture or geological features. They each have their own challenges! But we are extremely good at seeing flaws in human form and it's harder to forgive unless it is clearly the intention of the artist

[@nauci]

@@SarahBurnsStudio I feel like when I am millimeters off in a portrait, my subject looks 50x worse. Nailing it is still just as impactful with landscapes, but messing it up is a bit less punishing. But I never have to worry about perspective lines or many other aspects either.

[@moma-b]

Vader fetching. Vader falling asleep. Vader yawning. Errrr. What was this video about? Man, cats are distracting. 😁🥰🤗

[@woodspirit100]

I put my tubes in a big glas jar, trat i 've Seen by James Gurney.

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Hmmm yea I may look into this.

[@beverley-memawmawclarkwhit5102]

Sarah, question: you don't sound like you are "from" Scotland, were you born in the USA??

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Haha yep, I'm from Colorado! My husband is Scottish, and I live in Scotland permanently for 2 years now (and off/on for two before that)

[@nauci]

Also wait what Holbein Gouache gives me PTSD because it was so chalky and awful and fast drying and sandy for me :o it's the only medium that makes me feel like I'm fighting against it every moment I am working

[@SarahBurnsStudio]

Really??? Wow I never experienced that. I LOVE IT

[@nauci]

@@SarahBurnsStudio maybe because I started with acrylics and oils, so in contrast to buttery smooth oils gouache feels like painting with sand... Or I just need to use it with my stay wet palette paper.