Painting colourful houses - Royal Talens
Painting colourful houses - Royal Talens

Painting colourful houses

Make your own colourful houses with gouache! Follow the detailed step-by-step plan with photos and paint these cheerful houses in no time.

What you need View steps

What you need

  • Talens Art Creation gouache set
  • Talens Art Creation gouache brushes (flat and fine brushes for example made of filament / polyester)
  • Paper
  • Charcoal
  • Kneadable eraser to fade any lines or rub them out completely
  • Jars of water for thinning paint and for cleaning brushes during and after painting
  • Tear-off palette or mixing tray

Tips

  • Mix the paint with some water while painting, otherwise it is too thick.
  • Before you start, go through all the stages.

Step 1

Lightly outline the drawing with charcoal. Trace the lines with thinned paint. Use Light blue (cyan) and Deep rose (magenta) for this. Leave out the small details as these will be done in step 4.

Step 2

Paint the background with Yellow ochre. Start with the colours of the houses. Gouache is an opaque paint; after two layers of paint the colour is intense enough.

Step 3

Paint the street in various shades of grey; mix Deep green with Light blue (cyan) and a little bit of orange for this. You make orange by mixing Deep rose (magenta) with Lemon yellow (primary). Make the grey lighter by mixing it with White. Paint the background with Yellow ochre and White. Use various colours for the houses.

Step 4

Use Yellow ochre and a little bit of orange to paint the top half of the background. In this way you create a horizon. Finally, paint the details on the houses and the square. 

Create a 3D house

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