Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Images over images
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Images over images
Overview
“In this lesson, we will explore mixed media through the pictorial intervention of images from photographs, photocopies, and other printed matter.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Images over images, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination. Learn to mix different materials and discover new visual narratives that feed your creativity.
Partial transcription of the video
“Images over images In this lesson we will explore a mixed media which consists mainly of pictorial intervention over a photo or an image that has already been printed. To exemplify the technique, I have here some explorations what did i do some time ago, where I worked with photographs that I found in magazines and what did I get myself, which I then pasted on a slightly rigid surface. And after that, I did interventions with paint. It seems to me that the mixture of these two languages, on the one hand, photography that is realistic, that has clear and crisp content with the intervention o...”
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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Collage, Drawing, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration

Leonor Pérez B.
A course by Leonor Pérez B.
Illustrator Leonor Pérez was born in Santiago, Chile where she also received her BA in visual arts. She taught children and teens for some years until finally deciding to dedicate herself solely to illustration. She then moved to Mexico to study the discipline at the UNAM's Casa Universitario del Libro, a trip that had a great impact on her career. She went on to study imagination and creativity and is currently taking a master's in education. She has worked for the vast majority of the publishing houses across Chile as well as collaborated with publishers in Mexico, the US, Korea, and Brazil.
She is a three-time winner of the IBBY Chile's Hummingbird Medal and her book Balada da estrela e outros poemas has won awards from the FNLIJ IBBY Brasil and the Catedra Unesco de Leitura PUC-Rio. Additionally, Leonor is a professor for the illustration diploma and continuing education program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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