Marine Universe Illustration in Watercolor
Paper Moisture Control
A course by Berta Llonch , Visual Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Paper Moisture Control
Overview
“Finally, I will show you the importance of understanding how watercolor works in different degrees of humidity to achieve the effects we want in each work.”
In this video lesson Berta Llonch addresses the topic: Paper Moisture Control, 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
“Controlling paper wetness Now I will show you how watercolor behaves depending on the wetness of the paper. For example, I always work with dry paper. Watercolor, if we wet the brush, depending on... whether it has a lot of pigment, if it has more water, it will behave in one way or another. If we work wet-on-wet, depending on the effect we want, sometimes we need the watercolor to expand at first. We wet the paper first and we make a blotch. I'll take another color and we see that the watercolor behaves differently and expands. If we do the same and we wet the background, but we do it with...”
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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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