Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
Abstracted Aviary
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Abstracted Aviary
Overview
“Now we’ve explored working with layers of colour, let’s combine this with detail to start creating playful illustrations in our sketchbooks!”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Abstracted Aviary, 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
“So now that we have a better understanding of colour and how colours combine, We're going to look at how we can use that to create some illustrations in our sketchbook. In this lesson, we're going to be working with a limited color palette. and then applying some coloured pencil or some pen onto the top. Typical ways to apply watercolour is to do a drawing first, either a pencil drawing. which is your frame of reference. Or to do a pen and ink drawing and then add some watercolour on the top afterwards. But for this lesson, we're going to do it the other way around. We're going to use a rou...”
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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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