Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Basics: Washing and Glazing 1
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Basics: Washing and Glazing 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will see the "wild" side of gouache colors and first try the wash painting technique.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Basics: Washing and Glazing 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache. Discover the versatility of gouache by combining basic and experimental techniques to develop your own illustration style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basics: washing and glazing Now it's time to get down to business. We will go through the important techniques one by one and start with a technique which is equally important for watercolors and gouache paints. This is tacking. Washing means that you paint fluently with a lot of water and that the colors blend into each other and not only later stored on top of each other. Let's try to paint a small animal with this technique, namely a frog. I've already opened the paper. You can find out how to do this in the additional material. There is a link that will teach you the best way to do it. ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Aljoscha Blau
A course by Aljoscha Blau
Aljoschau Blau is an illustrator, author and lecturer in drawing and illustration. After the Wall came down, he left his hometown of Saint Petersburg to study art and illustration in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. Children's and picture books are his specialty. He has either illustrated or written more than 60 works and strives to do justice to each book with an individual illustration style. For the most part, he remains true to his favorite medium, gouache painting.
What appeals to him about the genre of the picture book is the illustrator's special responsibility to translate content that previously only existed in abstract language into the visual. He sees his projects as intellectual adventures with room for surprises, the grotesque and humour. He often lets the details do the talking and invites the viewer to look around in peace. His books in cooperation with German and international publishers, including Peter Hammer, Aufbau, NordSüd and Bajazzo, have received numerous international awards such as the German Youth Literature Prize and the renowned BolognaRagazzi Award. In "Multitalent Gouache" he recorded his experiences and techniques for illustration with gouache in book form.
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