Watercolor Portrait from a Photo
Painting the first layers
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolorist and muralist
About the video: Painting the first layers
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to place the first two layers in the portrait using skin colors 1 and 2, which we did in the previous lesson. Also I will teach you how to work the stain and modify it to your benefit.”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Painting the first layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Portrait from a Photo. Learn the techniques to create intimate and suggestive portraits using water, color, and paintbrushes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Painting the First Layers In this lesson, we'll start painting. We'll start working on the first two layers of our portrait. I'll start with a size-six brush. If your portrait is smaller or bigger, I recommend a size three or one, or you could choose a bigger number. So I'll wet my pencil and I'll go for the skin color one that we made before. The idea is to use a wash. That's a water-heavy mixture with more water than pigment. It's a very soft mixture. I'll add more water and try it on my test paper. You'll notice it's very soft. We're going to use this to contour the eyes, nose, and mouth...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Portrait from a Photo
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Category
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Areas
Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Sol Barrios
A course by Sol Barrios
Self-taught artist Sol Barrios has been painting portraits for around 6 years, giving classes, and taking the streets with paste-up murals. She started out as an art director for a cultural magazine, and little by little, she began specializing in the world of graphic arts to later flow into the world of painting through watercolor.
In her work, the contrast between dark and light colors is key, looking to put her faces in the forefront of her art, and define the unique characteristics of each human being.
She works for private art collections, has participated in many exhibitions in Chile such as FAxxi and ArtStgo, her murals can be found in the streets of Santiago, as well as in restaurants, studios, and homes.
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