Artistic Watercolor Sketching: Dare to Express Your Ideas

Overview

“Have you ever looked at a stain on the wall, spilled paint on the floor, the imprint of a coffee cup on the table, or a blurred photo, and suddenly you recognize a figure in all that jumble? Can't you see a head sticking out among the cloudy areas? Isn't there a distinct person there? Isn't there a duck, a dog? The effect that we believe we recognize something familiar in almost everything, that we see faces in sockets or a horse in moving clouds, is called pareidolia. The term comes from the Greek word "appearance" and describes the effort of our brains to want to recognize familiar patterns in strange shapes. But why are we doing this? ”

In this video lesson Felix Scheinberger addresses the topic: Pareidolia Exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Watercolor Sketching: Dare to Express Your Ideas. Learn how to sketch the atmosphere of your surroundings with watercolors, ink, and a fearless attitude.

Partial transcription of the video

“Pareidolia Exercise I wanna tell you about a super interesting perceptual phenomenon called pareidolia. And pareidolia, a weird word, it came from the Greek, and it's the perceptual phenomenon where things just appear if we see patterns. For example, if we sit outside in the grass and look at the sky and see the clouds, and sometimes we see a cloud and think, "Oh, it reminds me of a sheep, a horse, maybe a face." From our perspective, things appear in our mind, because we see a form. We create these things in our mind. And I tell you about this phenomenon because it's super good and useful ...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Watercolor Sketching: Dare to Express Your Ideas

• Level: Beginner
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• 28917 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 53m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting