Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality
Gesture and Drawing Structure
A course by Michele Bajona , Contemporary Figurative Artist
About the video: Gesture and Drawing Structure
Overview
“ I will teach you how to capture the gesture with some lines that capture torsion and perspective, then I will show you how to take accurate dimensions from a live model and organize them on paper in relation to the whole composition. ”
In this video lesson Michele Bajona addresses the topic: Gesture and Drawing Structure , 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
“Gesture and Drawing Structure In the last lesson we talked about the preparation prior to the painting. In this lesson we'll finally start our portrait painting. This is our final project. Remember, you don't need to pay a model to do this. You can use somebody, a close friend, somebody from your family. You can even do a self portrait if nobody is around you. In this class we're going to analyze gesture and structure. The structure is our construction lines that help us with the structure of the portrait. Then we will pass to the mop brush and we're gonna use this in order to find our draw...”
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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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