Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Painting with the “Dry Brush”, Stencil Technique, Drawing with a Reed Pen 1
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Painting with the “Dry Brush”, Stencil Technique, Drawing with a Reed Pen 1
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to paint with opaque gouache colors in a paste - this technique is also called "dry brush".”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Painting with the “Dry Brush”, Stencil Technique, Drawing with a Reed Pen 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
“Painting with the "dry brush", stencil technique, drawing with a reed pen In the previous lesson we learned how to wash and glaze. These are two techniques that work similarly with gouache as they do with watercolor. We take gouache transparent and apply them to the paper in layers. Now we're learning something else namely techniques that you can actually only do with gouache can perform and which are very interesting. The very first is painting with a dry brush, that's what it's called. The brush is not completely dry, it is naturally dipped in paint. But since we use little water and pain...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Category
Illustration -
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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