Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character

Overview

“From everything we saw in the past unit, we will create a custom color palette that is part of our artistic style. Then I will teach you how to test our palette within an illustration, without having to define the shapes, just using stains.”

In this video lesson Luiza Normey addresses the topic: Chromatic draft, which is part of the Domestika online course: Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character. Learn to create a custom color palette and express your personal style with watercolors.

Partial transcription of the video

“Chromatic Draft It's time for us to create our own color palette and plan how it will be used in our final project. You can create a color palette and then art, or create art and then a color palette. I often prefer to first, create a color palette and then create my art. Because we get rid of certain habits. For example, the leaf will be green. The sun will be yellow, the heart will be red. When we have our art ready and then we try to paint it, our brain goes directly to the obvious color. For example, if I'm making a portrait, I immediately want to use a skin tone kind of brown or beige....”

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Course summary for: Coloring with Watercolor: Discover Your Chromatic Character

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (195)
• 2481 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 39m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Color Theory, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting