Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
Combining Techniques 1
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Combining Techniques 1
Overview
“We’ll look back at everything we’ve covered so far, and explore ways to combine these different techniques with your ideas that have emerged throughout the course.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Combining Techniques 1, 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 far in this course, we've been drawing and painting quite unrelated things. And in this unit, we're going to start to draw connections between The different techniques that we've been trying out and the different themes that have started to appear throughout this course. So this is going to be a way of starting to fill in those blank pages. in your sketchbook. And also ways of making kind of creative connections between seemingly quite separate things. So to start with, i'm going to go back through the course so far. And I'm going to think about the different themes, the different object...”
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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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