Gouache workshop with Ellen Langford

Curious about gouache? This beginner-friendly workshop is the perfect place to start! Gouache is a vibrant, versatile paint that works like a mix between watercolor and acrylic, offering bold color, smooth coverage, and easy layering.

In this session, you'll learn:

-What gouache is and how it differs from other paints

-How to use brushes, mix colors, and control water

-Basic techniques like layering, blending, and adding details

No experience needed—just bring your creativity!

Come explore the magic of gouache and leave with your own colorful creation. Perfect for beginners, hobbyists, or anyone wanting to try something new!

About the instructor:

Ellen Langford is a painter whose body of work is inspired by landscapes, chance meetings, and the South’s mighty cross-currents. Ellen notices and captures the relationships between the land and its inhabitants – a child with his dog, a clothesline in the breeze, a figure with the landscape. We don’t only see them in her paintings, we feel that joyful connection. Ellen has painted in gouache from the Isle of Wight to Horn Island and the entire length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

Langford’s painting process involves layers of paint, often sanded away

and then glazed over, searching for shape and pattern, color, and

texture, to build the story worlds her figures inhabit.

Schedule:

Saturday 11/15: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in the studio

Sunday 11/16: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm in the studio and en plein air

Cost: $225 for both days

Supply List

Gouache Paints in the following colors:

-Titanium white

-Mars Black

-cadmium red light

-yellow ochre

You can also supplement with others, like ultramarine blue, naphthalene red, sap green, cadmium yellow.

For your more traditional earthy colors- burnt sienna, burnt umber.

Brushes

Round Fine tip #4, #8, #12

A “bright” which is a flat brush for getting good edges and filling larger space. 1/2 inch to 3/4inch

Kneaded eraser

Small plastic sandwich container (for palette)

Paper - mixed media pad (9x6 to 11x14)

Optional:

Spray bottle

Tinted illustration board

Provided by Ethotera:

Clean water

Small jar for your paint water

Paper towels

Blue painters tape

Pencil

Variety of brushes

A curated supply kit will be available for purchase at the studio to ensure you have everything you need to make the most of this workshop.

Supply Kit

Cost: $58.51 plus tax

Items included:

• Gouache paints in the following colors: titanium white, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Light, Yellow ochre

• Kneaded Eraser

• 2 - 12x18 watercolor sheets