Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books
Open and closed stain
A course by Juan Camilo Mayorga , Illustrator
Joined November 2020
About the video: Open and closed stain
Overview
“In this lesson you will explore watercolors and their behavior on paper, I will explain how this pigment works depending on humidity levels. In addition, you will learn how to get stains to open and close. I will teach you a couple of morphology exercises that you can work directly on the paper with our brushes.”
In this video lesson Juan Camilo Mayorga addresses the topic: Open and closed stain, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books. Give life to a children’s story by creating an illustrated universe using digital and analogue techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Open and closed stain In this lesson we are going to work directly with watercolors on paper and we'll explore how stains work according to the humidity levels with which we work on the support. Usually I always have ready at my table a jar of water, a dry cloth to clean the brush, And I usually use three brushes. You can look for a variety that you are comfortable with. There are brushes like this one that is round that has a certain way and way of applying it. There is this brush too, which is flat, to make shapes a little stiffer or lines much straighter. And I use this third brush that ...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books
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Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Juan Camilo Mayorga
A course by Juan Camilo Mayorga
A native of Colombia, Juan Camilo Mayorga studied Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, where he developed an interest in illustration, art, and a special taste for book illustration, especially the picturebook format, for the creative freedom that the illustrator has in interpreting a story.
After graduating from college, he published his first book Nicolás Aprende Los Números (SM, 2012), where he was able to put into practice the experimentation he had been doing with watercolor. This was the beginning of several collaborations both locally (Colombia) and internationally with the publishing companies including SM, Castillo, Rey Naranjo, El Naranjo, Loqueleo, and Norma.
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