Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how the two basic watercolor techniques work: wet painting and dry painting. Everything else is actually combinations of these two. We will experiment with various materials that you surely never imagined. Remember to let the water flow. This technique is very stubborn, watercolor does what it pleases, but we can take advantage of this; the more you let the water flow, the thing will get more interesting. The easiest way to learn is simply to try again and again.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Introduction to watercolor, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Illustration with Watercolors. Discover the techniques to create illustrated compositions with plants and flowers.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we'll overcome our fear of water. We'll start with some exercises to introduce the technique, painting on a wet and dry surface. Everything else combines these two. We'll need a sheet of paper, we'll divide it into a grid. We have our two containers ready with water, the palette, two tones of watercolours, I've chosen yellow and blue, you can choose your tones, and we'll use a medium round brush. A dropper is very useful for taking water in large quantities. We have enough water in the palette, so we'll take some pigment. In watercolours we always go from less to more. It's i...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (4291)
• 154029 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 32m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting