Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
Still life: everyday objects
A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist
About the video: Still life: everyday objects
Overview
“I will teach you how to work a color palette from a selection of objects that are in your home or study, putting together a composition that is harmonious and interests you from the chromatic point of view. ”
In this video lesson Jazmin Varela addresses the topic: Still life: everyday objects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe. Create your own library of color palettes to apply to your illustrations using mixed techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Still Life: Everyday Objects In this lesson we'll work on a still life composition. A still life or "nature morte" is a composition piece that depicts inanimate objects, objects that don't move. Traditionally, they're organic objects, such as fruits and flowers, and also everyday objects such as books and objects you have at home. So, look for a few objects that catch your attention and are at hand and, if possible, that you feel an emotional connection with so you connect with the exercise. I brought some images from other artists with example still life paintings I'd like to analyze. The ...”
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Course summary for: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
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Artistic Drawing, Color Theory, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration

Jazmin Varela
A course by Jazmin Varela
Jazmín Varela is an illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist. She has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2010 and works on personal projects for exhibitions in parallel. In 2018, she also started to tattoo in her own studio.
Some of her published works include Crisis capila (Editorial Municipal de Rosario 2016), Guerra de soda (Maten al Mensajero, 2017), Tengo unas flores con tu nombre (Maten al Mensajero, 2018), and Cotillón (Maten al Mensajero y Sigilo España, 2020). She is an integral part of the Cuadrilla Feminista, a graphic artist collective from Rosario, and cofounder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo.
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