The Linel Set Nolwenn Stduio
The Linel Gouache Travel Set
The Voyage Set, designed with artist Nolwenn Studio, invites you to create an exotic landscape with Linel extra-fine gouache.
Gouache is a blend of pigments and natural gum arabic, derived from the acacia tree. It can be used in both opaque and transparent form diluted with water, making it the ideal paint to take with you wherever you go for outdoor painting. Its versatility lets you fully explore perspective and color mixing.
The set includes six shades carefully selected by artist Nolwenn Studio: Titanium White, Cobalt Green, Yellow Ochre, Cobalt Blue, Tyrian Pink and Light Japanese Yellow. An ideal palette for creating landscapes the Nolwenn Studio way.
The material to start your work
Nolwenn Studio's step-by-step tutorial
Nolwenn Studio
Nolwenn Denis is a freelance globe-trotting artist with a colorful universe. Influenced and inspired by her travels and her long stay in Colombia, her work is an invitation to escape, a call to explore and dream of colorful adventures. Recurring themes in Nolwenn's creations are tropical beaches, sunsets, exotic birds (such as cockatoos), as well as architectural environments inspired by Mediterranean or Moroccan motifs (geometric tiles, mosaic fountains, arches and terraces). There are also elements reminiscent of local fruit markets, exotic places ideal for sensory journeys. She uses Linel Lefranc Bourgeois gouache, an opaque paint well-suited to the colorful, vibrant details she loves. This paint allows rich flat colors and great depth in her compositions. Her style can be associated with a search for escapism and a celebration of nature, immersing the viewer in tropical landscapes with a peaceful atmosphere.
Her experience with Linel gouache
Nolwenn "For me, LINEL gouache is the best paint for beginners! It's a fabulous medium that offers many possibilities. Whether used in its opaque form, in successive layers, or as watercolour (with the addition of water), LINEL pigments are intense! I've tried all kinds of paints, but it's really gouache that I'm passionate about for all my illustrations and travel journals. In my opinion, it's also a very economical paint, as a small amount is enough to cover a large area, and even if it dries on the palette, it can be reactivated with a little water (so there's no waste, unlike with acrylics, for example). It's also a paint that can be used on different surfaces (wood, cardboard, white or even dark paper, etc.) "
Travel set step by step
Step 1: Pink sky
Mix a little Tyrian pink with white and paint the sky, creating a gradient.
Step 2: Blue mountain in background
Same process as for the sky, painting the mountain in the background with cobalt blue and a few touches of white.
Step 3: Left hill in 4th shot
Here we mix cobalt green and cobalt blue to create a blue green and paint the left hill.
Step 4: Right hill in 4th shot
This time, you'll need to work a little faster, so that the still-moist colors blend together slightly.
Start painting the hill with a few touches of cobalt green, then add a little Japanese yellow to create a lighter green.
You can also add a few touches of violet by mixing our Tyrian pink with the cobalt blue (perhaps a little white if too dark) and finish with a few touches of yellow ochre.
Step 5: Hills/meadows in the 3rd shot
Same technique, painting the hills and meadows by mixing Japanese green and yellow to create different greens of varying lightness.
You can also add a few touches of light pink by mixing pink and white to create a pink effect with the sky.
Step 6: Shrubs in the 2nd foreground
As in step 3, we use green and cobalt blue to paint the shrubs in the 2nd foreground, creating harmony with the hill in the background.
Step 7: Grass in foreground
Using the same technique as step 4, we have fun “scattering” our colors as we see fit: a little cobalt green here, mixed with Japanese yellow or a little white or blue to create different greens.
Then a few touches of light pink and yellow ochre until the remaining white space is filled harmoniously.
Step 8: The palm trees
We start by painting 3 palm tree trunks of different sizes and more or less close together with pure Tyrian pink, then 3 more with pure yellow ochre.
Step 9: The moon/sun
To paint the moon/sun, we add a tiny touch of light Japanese yellow to our pure white, then paint our little circle slightly off-center to the left.
Step 10: Palm trees
Let's go back to the palm trees: paint the leaves with different greens, mixing cobalt green, light Japanese yellow, white or blue to avoid monotonous foliage. Alternate shades from one leaf to the next. Once dry, add new trunks on top of the first with different colors: Tyrian pink, pink and white, yellow ochre, yellow ochre and white, or a mix with a touch of pink. Test your mixtures on a separate sheet. When everything is dry, add the leaves of the new palms, again varying the greens to create harmony and depth. Finish with a few shrubs in the foreground, mixing green and cobalt blue as in step 3, then add a few dashes or dots on the hills in step 5 to suggest café terraces.
DID YOU KNOW?
The painter Henri Matisse, master and leader of Fauvism, adulated Linel extra-fine gouache. He never forgot to praise it in each of his interviews, and he also played an active part, in collaboration with the chemists and researchers Lefranc Bourgeois, in the creation of Linel fixed violet.
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