Botanical Painting with Acrylic
Brushstrokes, textures and plots
A course by Lucila Dominguez , Painter, Illustrator, and Muralist
About the video: Brushstrokes, textures and plots
Overview
“Acrylic paint is super docile and allows us to play a lot. We can apply it very thick leaving traces or super diluted creating gouaches and transparencies. I will show you how we can take advantage of the shape of the brushes to imitate shapes and textures that exist in nature. The idea is to learn to illustrate with your own gestures.”
In this video lesson Lucila Dominguez addresses the topic: Brushstrokes, textures and plots, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Painting with Acrylic. Learn to create an illustrated composition of plants and flowers.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we are going to paint. I will show you the characteristics of the acrylic paint, what happens when mixed with water. Let's see the brushes, their brush strokes and how to generate our strokes. Here we have two types of acrylic. They are two different blues. I chose the blue color to start. This is a thicker acrylic. And here we have another that is a little more liquid. The idea is that we learn to take advantage of the material and its characteristics. When the acrylic is very thick, we can use it with spatulas to generate different textures. Now we're going to see it on pap...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Painting with Acrylic
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration
Lucila Dominguez
A course by Lucila Dominguez
Lucila Domínguez is a painter, illustrator, and muralist specializing in botanical motifs. She finds inspiration in nature, especially in plants. During her frequent travels, she collects ideas that she can later apply to her compositions, resulting in unique mixtures of flora from around the world.
She studied fine arts and has worked with different visual artists and art directors to develop sets for film and advertisements. Lucila later specialized in large-format pieces, and murals have become her medium of choice for bringing her botanical compositions to life.
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