Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 1
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you what you can achieve by covering with masking fluid. This time the image is painted from dark to light in transparent layers.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 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
“Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid In this lesson I will tell you about a very interesting technique. Painting combined with covering some parts of the picture with masking fluid. I myself use this technique quite often, and always then if I leave individual parts of the motif free. I have a few examples with me. For example this picture. Here was the silhouette of the monkey and the chairs covered in this way, so that one is within the subject quite nice with lots of water and and then paint over it with the dry brush. This motif with the Mowgli and the she-wolf was similar her...”
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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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