LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ How to paint night scenes in gouache
■ Paint on dark smooth card
■ Apply gouache using a variety of techniques
This month we are using the amazing opacity of gouache to paint onto dark-coloured card with light paint. I chose a couple of night scenes for this exercise, with glowing lights and buildings half-obscured in the darkness. The way we will paint them is quite loose, because I want you to have fun with the process, and to create something that is uniquely yours as you discover just what covering power gouache has. In the other articles in this series, we have already used light colours over dark colours (as well as the other way
