Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 7
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 7
Overview
“We continue applying details to our illustration in this last video of the lesson.”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Colour and Texture: Bright Colours 7, 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
“using the watercolor with more pigments and less water. you will be able to Work over some already dark tones. For example, here the yellow over the orange. It worked nearly like gouache. So I already painted the most obvious color of the flower. The orange, this green there. But looking at the petals, it's definitely white, but because of the shadow and the light, you have to represent all this volume in your drawing. very subtle tone of blue with could be cobalt i will make a try with cobalt I will clean my palette again here with water. You can even keep out the pigment with your fabric ...”
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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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