Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
Color Index: Pigment, Light Fastness, and Label
A course by Dolle Étoile , Illustrator
About the video: Color Index: Pigment, Light Fastness, and Label
Overview
“I'll explain how to tell which colors are lightfast and which are not, how lightfastness is measured, and how to read the pigments used in paints. ”
In this video lesson Dolle Étoile addresses the topic: Color Index: Pigment, Light Fastness, and Label, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors. Learn fundamental watercolor techniques to bring fantastical worlds to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color index: pigment, light fastness and label In this lesson we will talk about lightfastness, the ASTM, the Blue Wool Scale the fugitive colors and the nomenclature of watercolor tubes, which are important considerations when choosing your water colors. I am going to tell you about my experience with set watercolors when buying them without thinking. I saw them to my favorite artists and since I thought they used them and they were professional grade, I thought there would be no problem when having them, but it turned out that there are some things or special characteristics that I did no...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Dolle Étoile
A course by Dolle Étoile
Karla Rodríguez, better known as Miss Étoile or Dolle Étoile, is an illustrator who is inspired in her creations by the aesthetics of fairy tales and porcelain dolls. She studied digital graphic design at the International University of the Californias in Tijuana, although she later specialized in drawing and illustration. She currently works as a freelancer and has her own brand of products and accessories bearing her illustrations.
Her work is in countless publications, in several children's stories by Write Brain Books, USA, and 21 Draw, Sweden, in the fantasy art books The Enchanted Forest and The Elven Path by Black Fox Press, UK, and many others. She has exhibited collectively and on her own at Gallery Nucleus, Haven Gallery, Casa de la Cultura in Mexicali, Galería José María Velasco, Soumaya, and Casa de la Cultura de Playas.
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