Introduction to Acrylic Painting: Create a Tropical Canvas
Tracing Your Favorite Elements
A course by Leona Rose , Artist
Joined September 2021
About the video: Tracing Your Favorite Elements
Overview
“Now that we have an idea of our sketch, we will specify certain shapes of the drawing and practice to reproduce them as well as possible on the canvas. I will explain to you how to select images to trace and how to proceed on the digital tablet.”
In this video lesson Leona Rose addresses the topic: Tracing Your Favorite Elements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Acrylic Painting: Create a Tropical Canvas. Get inspired by nature to create a colorful, tropical piece from scratch by exploring the secrets of acrylic painting.
Partial transcription of the video
“Trace his favorites We have a more precise idea of our sketch. Now we are going to specify the shapes of our drawing. We will practice tracing them to better reproduce them later on the canvas. I selected some images that match my moodboard, for example tigers, monstera leaves, and I'll import them into the app to practice drawing them. In this sketch, I could elaborate more on the shape of the tigers head. For this, I import the photos I have selected, for example, a picture of a tiger. I created a layer to draw the head of the tiger that I am going to trace. For the ears, I could have bee...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Acrylic Painting: Create a Tropical Canvas
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Painting, Pattern Design

Leona Rose
A course by Leona Rose
Originally from the south of France, Leona Rose is a globe-trotting painter who loves to create her work on huge spaces all over the world. She became known for her large and colorful murals like the ones she created in the Riad Yasmine in Marrakech.
Since then, she has worked for the CeliaB brand, Pierre Frey wallpapers, and Fermob, Pokawa, and Levi's signs. She has also released a children's book: À la recherche des trois flamants roses, published by Little Urban.
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