This month inside Get Gouachey, we’re exploring desert light through a series of step-by-step gouache painting tutorials designed to simplify rock textures and help you understand how light transforms a landscape.

Today, I’m tackling the three biggest gouache struggles; blending, layering, and consistency, and giving you quick, no-nonsense fixes so you can stop fighting with your paint and start making magic.

Join me for a special winter live class where we’ll paint this frosty wonderland within a snow globe!

This month, we’re stepping into a cozy winter wonderland with gouache! This piece combines a softly blended sky, gentle pastel snow, and a magical sparkle trail weaving through a frosty forest.

If you’re new to gouache, or finding some of it’s quirky ways frustrating, you will likely have encountered some problems with layering.

I love using this soft blending technique with gouache- it's the perfect touch to the background of this snowy winter village!

I love to paint from photos; it allows me to relax and really slow down and study colors and textures. I paint about half and half realistic landscapes and whimsical landscapes, but all of the technical skill I use for whimsical scenes comes from paintings like this.

Gouache works so much better straight from the tube than when it’s been left to dry on the palette, but we rarely dispense exactly the right amount to use for a project. So what do we do with the leftover paint?

This sweet little lazy river is a study in light and shadow. We'll paint bands of illumination passing through the trees and onto the grass to capture the atmosphere of a late summer afternoon.

Grab your paints and lets paint this pretty Woodland Walk! This scene is a great exploration of texture and atmosphere that is an absolute joy to paint!

I've painted a few different versions of this beautiful scene over the past several years, and it's always a joy to paint!

This spooky little scene is a great choice for trying out some different blending techniques.

This spooky scene allows us to dive right into the Halloween mood with eerie silhouettes and beautiful blends to create a fiendishly foggy background.

This magical moonlit forest path is deceptively simple and only requires a handful of colors on your palette!

It's no secret that I love gouache. Everything from its velvety matte finish to its stubborn refusal to stay wet longer than a few seconds delights me. I want everyone to give this quirky medium a go and these are my top tips for getting started.

This tutorial will walk you through painting an awesome glitter effect with gouache.

In this tutorial, I’ll talk you through my favorite way to paint northern lights with gouache.

Poster color is very similar to gouache and is often an acceptable substitute if you cant get hold of gouache. In this video I’ll talk a little about why I like poster color as I paint this lake scene.

This is one of my favorite paintings and by far my most popular tutorial!

This short and sweet tutorial will talk you through the process of painting a cute little bush in the forest bathed in beams of sunlight.