Contemporary Still Life with Watercolor
Presentation
A course by Elisa Alcalde Castro , Artist
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“Hi! Welcome and welcome to my Domestika course. My name is Elisa and what brings me here is watercolor painting. In this lesson I will tell you a little more about myself and how I came to dedicate myself to this. How I grew up and what is my work at this time.”
In this video lesson Elisa Alcalde Castro addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Still Life with Watercolor. Learn how to paint everyday objects with watercolor, giving them new lives as works of art.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Elisa, I am from Santiago de Chile and I will do a course on watercolor. I started studying cinema, I did not study art, and as of the year 2012, at a time of unemployment, I had a set that they had given me of watercolor and I took it and painted because I had always liked to paint, But I never considered it professionally that's why I had studied cinema and not art, because I thought I could, I don't know, paint at home. But at that moment I started painting, I was unemployed and I started painting minerals. And I remembered a technique that they had taught ...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Still Life with Watercolor
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Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Elisa Alcalde Castro
A course by Elisa Alcalde Castro
After a time combining her passion for painting with a job in the communication department of a consulting firm, Elisa Alcalde now devotes herself and her energy to editing fanzines, writing and, above all, painting with watercolors. She began with precious stones and minerals, then moved onto portraits, until finally arriving at still lifes, which are the main stars of her work at the moment.
She has published over thirty fanzines, created her own publishing project, Pequeño Zine, published a book of stories, and exhibited her work on several occasions. For the past eight years, she has been painting with watercolor and publishing her work on her social media profiles.
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