Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
Dancing With Your Brushes
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Dancing With Your Brushes
Overview
“And now we will start to make marks! I’ll show you how to begin, how to familiarise yourself with your brushes and warm up your hands.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Dancing With Your Brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners. Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to start to explore the paints and the brushes and begin to make some marks in our sketchbook. The exercises and the lessons in this course are designed to be short and achievable. So in each lesson, you're going to be creating a new page in your sketchbook and By the end of the course, you will have hopefully a whole sketchbook full of all the individual step-by-step exercises that you've done. Because of this approach, I'm going to start working my sketchbook not in a chronological way starting on the first page, but I'm just going to open it at random and that...”
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Course summary for: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Laura McKendry
A course by Laura McKendry
Laura McKendry is an illustrator and artist based in London, UK, who is renowned for incorporating unusual tools and materials into her watercolor and ink-based pieces. Her work can be found on greeting cards, wrapping paper, homeware, and fine art prints for clients like Artko, Impress, Jaccart, Laura Ashley, Papyrus, WHSmith, and Waterstones.
Her book cover illustration for André Alexis’ novel Fifteen Dogs was nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards in 2016. She also teaches short courses on drawing and illustration at Central Saint Martins and the University of Arts London, and runs online workshops that focus on finding ways to unlock creativity while perfecting creative techniques.
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