Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration
Watercolor layers
A course by Cristina Cilloniz , Botanical Illustrator
Joined November 2017
Joined November 2017
About the video: Watercolor layers
Overview
“Once the background is painted, I will teach you how to paint the botanical elements. We will give few layers of color and some shades that will help us give more volume to our illustration. ”
In this video lesson Cristina Cilloniz addresses the topic: Watercolor layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration. Learn how to paint botanical pieces that are full of life with a technique ideal for creating depth effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“Layers in watercolor I've finished the background and now I'm going to start painting the flowers and the leaves. For this part of the process, I recommend that you use thinner brushes. I'm using the number four, the number one and the triple zero. I'll start with the number one to work on the lavender. I already started the first layer of the lavender here, and I'll show you how I do it with this one here in front. I like to play with colors. I won't paint this lavender in the same way as the one behind. I'm going to give it some blue tones. And what we're going to do now is use what we le...”
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Course summary for: Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Cristina Cilloniz
A course by Cristina Cilloniz
For Cristina Cilloniz, watercolor was a source of creativity and growth at a crucial moment in her life. An architect by profession and passionate about nature, she decided to change the trajectory of her life in 2016, when she began to dedicate herself exclusively to botanical watercolor illustration and turned it into a tool to explore, heal and share.
He has collaborated with renowned brands such as L'Occitane, Patagonia and Faber-Castell in different formats: stationery products, wallpapers, fabrics and wood.
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