Marine Universe Illustration in Watercolor
How to Stretch the Paper
A course by Berta Llonch , Visual Artist and Illustrator
About the video: How to Stretch the Paper
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to teach you to prepare the paper in a very simple way to be able to work on it with the amount of water you want. This way you will obtain a completely smooth work without any undulations of the paper.”
In this video lesson Berta Llonch addresses the topic: How to Stretch the Paper, which is part of the Domestika online course: Marine Universe Illustration in Watercolor. Learn how to paint freely and spontaneously with watercolors and illustrate sea life.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to stretch the paper In this lesson I'll show you how to stretch the paper. Before painting we need to stretch the paper. It's super important. When we work with water it will warp and bulge and it is the best way so that when we finish it's smooth. To stretch the paper, you will first need a board, a pine board, so that it doesn't warp with water. Adhesive tape, a sponge and water. The first thing we will do is take the tape and cut it according to the size of the paper, a little bigger, for each side. The tape has a shiny part, which has a glue. When it comes into contact with water, ...”
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Course summary for: Marine Universe Illustration in Watercolor
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Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Berta Llonch
A course by Berta Llonch
Berta Llonch is a visual artist and illustrator with a Fine Arts degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the same city where her studio is located. It's there that she develops her personal projects alongside her commissioned paintings, illustrations, and murals.
She's taken part in various group exhibitions in venues such as the drawing and illustration museum Museo ABC in Madrid, Wabi-Sabi gallery in Seville, and Madrid's EG gallery. She's also curated and taken part in creative projects such as the mural for the San Severiano church in Cádiz, US artist Sol Lewitt's mural, which is part of a permanent exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the publication of the illustrated album Mopi.
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