Modern Watercolor Techniques: Colors, Dreams, and Emotions

Overview

“The sketch is placed on the sheet. I will now show you how to create your watercolor illustration layer by layer. I will start with a plain background, then I will work on the sky and my main element, the rock.”

In this video lesson Jean Mallard addresses the topic: Creating Layer by Layer 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Watercolor Techniques: Colors, Dreams, and Emotions. Discover meditative and relaxing painting techniques while learning to create your own colors in watercolor.

Partial transcription of the video

“Create layer by layer In this lesson, we will move on to the realization. Now that we have our sketch on the sheet, we will be able to start painting layer by layer. The first layer I apply each time, it is a plain background for the whole sheet. It's a light color that I put on the sheet, which will unite all the colors that will be added later. I chose, as background color, this one, a gelb yellow, it is a fairly light yellow, close to beige, to unify the colors without marking the sheet. For this step, we will use this famous brush which I told you about. It's a Chinese brush, a small gr...”

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Course summary for: Modern Watercolor Techniques: Colors, Dreams, and Emotions

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 17 lessons (3h 13m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting