Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality
Lights and Shadows, Tonal Values.
A course by Michele Bajona , Contemporary Figurative Artist
About the video: Lights and Shadows, Tonal Values.
Overview
“This lesson is about how to reach the illusion of reality on a bidimensional support. I will be using a single color, in monochrome, in order to focus on tonal values. Painting a sphere is an essential exercise in order to understand light and shadows and be able to practice with the correct charge of the brush. ”
In this video lesson Michele Bajona addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows, Tonal Values., which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality. Discover the world of watercolors by learning to paint striking and realistic portraits with a live model.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lights and Shadows, Tonal Values In the last lesson I introduced the materials that we'll use in the course. In this lesson I'm going to talk to you about lights and shadow, and how you can represent them through tonal values. We're going to learn how to give the illusion of a three-dimensional shape on a two-dimensional support. I will start showing you how to properly load your brush and then I will show you how to work wet on wet and wet on dry. We will use a single color in monochrome and we will be painting a sphere, as we see here, in order to understand the concepts of tonal value. L...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Watercolor Painting
Michele Bajona
A course by Michele Bajona
Michele Bajona is an architect-turned-painter whose artwork has been exhibited throughout America and Europe. He attended the Art Student League in New York City and is a member of Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona. He currently resides in Mexico City, where he continues to paint and teaches art. He has given masterclasses at Museums and cultural institutions.
In addition to solo and collective exhibitions across the globe, he won the first prize for best video documentary at the 54th Venice Art Biennial, Padiglione Italia.
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