Gouache Sketchbook Workshop

Have you heard of gouache and never known what it is or what it can do?

This Gouache Sketchbook Workshop will explore the use of gouache (an opaque watercolour) in our sketchbooks. You can carry with you everywhere, alongside your sketchbook and pens as it is portable and immediate, much like watercolour but with all the extra benefit of being able to work back over dark with lighter colours. We will use it to help get us into daily creative habits of observation, discovery, and wonder. We will run through different painting exercises and begin to use gouache within the familiar and friendly, safe space of our own sketchbooks. We will explore the all the versatility and challenges of this medium!

Workshop runs from 9.30 am – 2.30 pm Saturday 1st August, 2026

Suitable for ages: 18 and older, some drawing experience recommended but not essential

Materials: NOT provided so please bring your own. (I will email you a recommended product list ) but this is what to expect you will need

A5 or A4 sketchbook, a couple of watercolour pencils, gouache paint in tubes and a small palette, flat taklon brushes in size 10 and 6, waterbrushes and paper towel or a tennis wrist sweatband

Venue: Ipswich Art Workshop space is based in d’Arcy Doyle Place, between Ipswich
Art Gallery and Community Gallery. Street parking.

It is airconditioned, wheel chair friendly and equipped with benches and stools, toilets and kitchen. BYO lunch (we will eat as we draw!) morning tea provided

generally no refunds unless the workshop is cancelled by organisers, please contact me if there is an emergency condition that prevents attendance

Numbers are capped at 12 participants

contact deb@debmostertartist.com.au