Naturalist Watercolor with Expression and Personality
Just what you need: abstractions
A course by Leandro Nunes , Watercolor Artist
About the video: Just what you need: abstractions
Overview
“Get ready to break some limiting beliefs. In this class, we're going to reflect and reorganize what we think about abstraction.”
In this video lesson Leandro Nunes addresses the topic: Just what you need: abstractions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalist Watercolor with Expression and Personality. Learn watercolor techniques to create dynamic paintings by combining realism and abstraction.
Partial transcription of the video
“Nothing but the Essentials: Abstractions In this lesson, I’m going to talk about abstractions. I want you to open your mind. Every work of art is an attempt to communicate. Every artist wants to communicate. And there resides one the key principles to opening your mind up to abstractions and making your paintings sophisticated. Which and how many elements are needed to make your painting represent a theme? I have two paintings, two references, here, one from the master Cembranelli, depicting a sunflower, and another from Camille Engel, also depicting a sunflower. You might like one style mo...”
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Course summary for: Naturalist Watercolor with Expression and Personality
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Areas
Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Leandro Nunes
A course by Leandro Nunes
"São Paulo-born Leandro Nunes has been drawing since he was seven years old. Forever connected to the arts, he received a degree in advertising and propaganda, choosing this path as a way of uniting artistic knowledge with communication, expression, and education. He then studied photography and photo editing and went on to combine all his knowledge at his communications agency where he worked as Art Director.
He has worked with brands such as Marisa, Água de Cheiro, Everlast, Fórum, and more. He fell in love with watercolor the second he started and currently dedicates himself exclusively to activities related to this art form. He gives courses in various cities across Brazil and manages the largest watercolor group on Facebook, Aquarela Brasil."
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