Stylized Portraits in Watercolor

Overview

“Here I'm going to quickly show you how the color wheel works and how it helps us create colors and new color combinations. ”

In this video lesson Caroline Passos addresses the topic: Chromatic circle, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylized Portraits in Watercolor. Learn how to turn a photograph into a stylized and simplified portrait using watercolor.

Partial transcription of the video

“The Color Wheel In this lesson, we’ll talk a bit abut the color wheel. I have two color wheels on my table. I made one using magenta as a primary color and the other, I used red as a primary color. In older paintings, painters used red as a primary color because the magenta color pigment is something more recent. It appeared during the Industrial Revolution. Before, in paintings we see in museums, painters used vermilion, a specific type of red as a primary color. Mixes made with red are a bit less saturated. You can see that well in these colors that are close to blue. I have darker purple...”

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Course summary for: Stylized Portraits in Watercolor

• Level: Beginner
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• 1377 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 40m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Painting, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting