The Human Figure in Watercolor
Color Palettes and Application 3
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Color Palettes and Application 3
Overview
“We continue to explore the possibilities of a new color palette.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Color Palettes and Application 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Human Figure in Watercolor. Play with the versatility of watercolor and explore different color palettes to paint the human body.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color Palettes and Application Now we’ll create this image that we still have left to work on. And we'll do so with a very special palette, which, at first glance, will seem very complicated. It’s a palette used by the painter Anders Zorn. It’s a very simple palette with three colors. He used it for oil painting with white, but we can transfer it to watercolor. Those three colors were: a yellow such as yellow ocher, a warm red like light cadmium red or cadmium red, and as cool shade, as a cool shade like blue, he used black. With those three colors he created an infinite color range that we...”
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Course summary for: The Human Figure in Watercolor
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Category
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Areas
Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Ale Casanova
A course by Ale Casanova
Alejandro Casanova was born in Valencia, Spain in 1981. After studying Fine Art at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he moved to Tenerife where he completed his doctorate. He has received various national and European research grants as well as others for the plastic arts.
His work focuses on the human body and portraiture as a window into the creation of plastic art. He also composes oil paintings, although watercolor is his preferred medium as it allows him to work swiftly and effectively using transparency and the richness of the color spectrum to create figurative pieces. His work has been exhibited in different Spanish as well as other European cities and he has also given numerous workshops across Spain.
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