Modern Watercolor Techniques
Transparencies 1
A course by Ana Victoria Calderon , Painter and illustrator
Joined August 2016
Paint with watercolors in a technical and creative way
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Joined August 2016
About the video: Transparencies 1
Overview
“Making transparencies is the most basic exercise to start painting with watercolors. We will make different transparency levels and I will explain how to control the amount of water in order to get desired results.”
In this video lesson Ana Victoria Calderon addresses the topic: Transparencies 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Watercolor Techniques. Paint with watercolors in a technical and creative way.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNIT 3 - Lesson 1: Transparencies 1 Let's start the first exercise, called transparencies. Firstly, I want to show you, for example, if you are using glued paper, meaning that all borders are stuck together, let me teach you how to lift the paper. If your block has a spiral this part is unnecessary, but if you have one like this, which is stuck together, there is always a small open section. So you insert a knife or a spatula and start opening it, bit by bit, towards the corners. We separate the corners like I'm doing now. This is an illustration that I did days ago and I hadn't removed thi...”
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Course summary for: Modern Watercolor Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by Ana Victoria Calderon
Ana Victoria Calderón is originally from Cancún, that's why a good part of her work is intimately related to nature and full of organic elements and symbolism.
She graduated from Universidad de las Américas in Puebla (Mexico) where she studied Information Design while working on her degree in Plastic Arts.
It is quite common to find her illustrations applied to prints, bags, notebooks, ceramics, kitchen items, greeting cards, book covers, and all kinds of products. She also licenses her art to companies such as Hallmark, Papyrus, Trader Joe's, among others, and has collaborated with Vanity Fair, Elle, Editorial Santillana, Travesías, Ray-Ban, and Dr. Bronner's.
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- Level: Beginner
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