Contemporary Still Life with Watercolor
Shadow
A course by Elisa Alcalde Castro , Artist
About the video: Shadow
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how the picture is completed as the shadows and darker colors arrive.”
In this video lesson Elisa Alcalde Castro addresses the topic: Shadow, 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
“Shadow In this lesson we will see the shadows of the work or the darkest areas of certain objects. Having already painted almost all the lights and the vast majority of the objects, we hope it dries so that we do not happen to carry the painting with our hand and so we can apply the shadows with ease. There are darkness that we will generate with the same color of the object, which is what we did with the lemon, and there are others that we will generate with very watery grays, which are the shadows of the objects on the table, and that is not the darkness of the object itself, but rather t...”
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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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