Botanical Painting with Acrylic
Color tones
A course by Lucila Dominguez , Painter, Illustrator, and Muralist
About the video: Color tones
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn to differentiate color tones, a basic concept to begin to understand how colors are made. I will show you examples of nature so you can identify different shades or dyes of the same color. ”
In this video lesson Lucila Dominguez addresses the topic: Color tones, 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 will learn the basic characteristics of color, so that they know more deeply and be more familiar with the material to paint. Let's see the famous color circle, that you probably remember from school. In this circle we will see how the colors are composed. We can assemble an extensive range of colors, starting with the primaries, and using black and white to vary its tone. Hue is the basic characteristic of color. It is the color as we find it in the tubes, in the pigments. Let's see what the primaries are and what happens when we mix them. The primaries are yellow, red an...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Painting with Acrylic
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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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