Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality
Monochrome Washes
A course by Michele Bajona , Contemporary Figurative Artist
About the video: Monochrome Washes
Overview
“I will show you how to eliminate all the construction lines by using a light wash in all the shadow areas, it’s important that you find your drawing through washes avoiding the use of lines which might restrict the freedom of your painting and mislead you in the process of seeing what’s truly in front of you.”
In this video lesson Michele Bajona addresses the topic: Monochrome Washes, 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
“In the last lesson We focused on the structure and the gesture. And now that we have it, we can focus on the main masses. So we're going to analyze lights and shadows. So we're going to use monochrome washes in order to create the lights and shadows that we see. In the model. In this lesson, we're going to use a white mop brush and we're going to use it with a light tonal value. The same. Tonal value we use to create our construction lines. Let's dip the mop in the water and add pigment to it. This is a bigger brush, so it needs a little bit more pigment than the small liner that we used be...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Portraits: Capture a Model's Personality
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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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