This 3-week COURSE meets Friday, october 10, 17, & 24
from 10am to 1pm
In this three week class students will learn how to paint with gouache. Gouache is a wonderful opaque watercolor paint that has been around for centuries. It is used on paper and dries to a matte finish. You will learn all its various uses, from thick to thinned with water, layering techniques and beyond. Students will work experimentally from imagination and copying 19th century master works.
Note: This is a hands-on painting class, with both classwork and homework.
Week One: What is Gouache?
Week Two: Layering Techniques
Week Three: Ink Wash Technique
*Gouache Techniques is great for students that have taken Rachel’s Intro to Color & Design course!
Minimum Age: 18
Location: STAA Art House at 320 N. Columbia Street in Downtown Covington.
Meet Rachel!
Rachel Crawford is a native of New Orleans that journeyed to the “country” and landed in the charming town of Covington, Louisiana, with her hubby of 30 years marriage.
She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where she discovered her love of color and gouache. Passionate about color, Rachel now teaches color theory & design classes in her home studio and at her local art association. Bookbinding is her second passion and Rachel loves to teach others how to create books by hand.
Rachel works in gouache, watercolor, acrylic, color pencil, paper collage and mixed media. Her art is bright, happy and energetic and encompasses colorful geometrics, expressive abstracts and paper-cut collages. Nature, primitive arts and mid-century design are her inspirations.
Her award winning art and hand-bound books have been shown and sold in galleries, group exhibitions and art festivals around the Gulf Coast Region and beyond. And Rachel’s bookbinding skills and work have been featured on HGTV.
In Rachel’s words, “I love teaching, because it’s planting creative seeds into others so they can discover, blossom and flourish in their God given creativity which will make the world a more beautiful place.”
When she is not drawing in her sketchbook, she feeds her creativity by crocheting, reading, writing poetry and exploring the great outdoors.