Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Influences
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn about my influences: places and artists that I admire and that have left their mark on me. I will tell you about the characteristics that attract me to them and how they resemble my way of seeing the world.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques. Create an illustrated story full of life with a unique style that combines multiple techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now, let me talk to you about my main influences. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist that I've always found interesting. What I like the most about Frida is the way she self-references... ..in all of her self-portraits. She paints about her life. She speaks of pain, love, and death. She used to paint in small format at at time when muralism dominated. Muralism was the type of art her husband, Diego Rivera, did. Frida turns to Mexican popular symbolism throughout her work. That's something I've always liked, because it's almost surrealist. Surrealism was really in at the time. Mexic...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Cecilia Varela
A course by Cecilia Varela
Cecilia Varela is a Córdoba-based (Argentina) illustrator and author of several children's books. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be an illustrator, a dream that grew out of her passion for children's books and stories. She studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts and specialized in drawing and painting.
She won first prize at the Mexican Illustrators Contest in 2007 and has since then collaborated with different publishers in Mexico and Spain, like Edelvives and Alfaguara. Cecilia creates her artwork by hand and then digitizes it for publishing. She uses a wide variety of techniques in her work, but most often creates with acrylics, gouache, collage, and colored pencils.
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