Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 5
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 5
Overview
“Fifth part of the lesson, where I will focus on adding light and brightness to the flower.”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 5, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach. Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors.
Partial transcription of the video
“So when you're painting while it's still wet, you see this diffusion. make a very nice integration with a new color. OK, so the flower now is dry, I could work on the cell layer. This will be not only red, I will add some purple, Bye, lads. Here. All pigments. bit more Yeah. It looks very dark, I will add a bit more of color and I will create Now the radiance. until the red. I will prepare two brush, one with purple and the other with red. and walk which was the same way we did with the red and the yellow. applying the first color. and creating the transition in between. So I put too much w...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Lapin
A course by Lapin
Lapin is an urban sketcher based in Barcelona, Spain. As a young boy, he remembers accompanying his father—an airplane technician—to his workplace to draw planes and imagine their stories. His three passions remain the same to this day: aviation, paleontology, and drawing.
In 18 years, he has filled over 200 sketchbooks, published 30 books, and was named the official air and space painter for the French Army in 2019. He’s a member of the Urban Sketching Community since 2008 and teaches Illustration Masters students at Elisava in Barcelona, as well as his own urban sketching workshops. His clients include the French Army, Air France, the City of Barcelona, Le Parisien Magazine, PlayStation, Heineken, Marks & Spencer, Aigle, Peugeot, Porsche, and Formula One.
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