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Unlocking the Magic of Gouache
Joe Cibere
Gouache
Cost: $75.00
Workshop
Beginners Welcome
Saturday–Saturday
Meets daily
9:00 AM–1:00 PM
+ Download Materials List
Sat, September 27, 2025
13 spaces available.
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Reworkable and Forgiving!
Unlock the magic of gouache, an opaque watercolor that is a versatile and unique painting medium. It has special qualities that artists will discover and experience through practical, hands-on learning.
Benefits of painting with gouache
Gouache’s versatility and forgiving nature, particularly its ability to be reworked and
corrected easily is awesome. The medium’s unique property of being re-wettable allows artists to fix mistakes or make changes even after the paint has dried. The flexible qualities of gouache set it apart from other painting mediums, making it approachable and confidence-boosting for artists of all levels.
For this workshop you’ll only need white gouache plus you regular paints. I recommend either of the following:
-Winsor & Newton Designer's Gouache, 37 ml (1.25oz) tube, Permanent White
-Dr. Ph. Martin's Bleedproof White
If you already have gouache paint use that plus white. If you have transparent watercolors adding white gouache will make them opaque.
• If you want to buy a starter set of good gouache I recommend Holbein 5 primary colors set gouache.
Please see the attached materials list for additional materials you may want for this class.
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About Joe Cibere
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Joe Cibere is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, and his painting style demonstrates his love of nature and wilderness. His "abstract realism" paintings integrate strong design and balance with a sense of illusion, and have appeared in "Watercolor Artist Magazine," "Artists Magazine," "Best of Acrylic," "Splash 23," and in the International Artists book "The Watercolor Sky and Cloud Techniques of 23 International Artists." His work is also part of both corporate and private collections. His studio is at Studio Channel Islands, Room R5 in Old Town Camarillo, California.
He's been working on more impressionistic landscapes lately, using non-traditional water media methods for creating what he calls "imaginaries," landscapes that don't really exist and are more conceptual in nature.
To know when he's done with a painting, he has three guides. Does it look good in black and white/greyscale? Does it look good flipped, reversed, and rotated? And is there enough left for the viewer to finish the painting? All goes back to knowing how to start and when to finish your vision.
Instructor website: www.joeciberewatercolors.com
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