Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
Blending and Blurring of Colors
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolor and Mural Artist
About the video: Blending and Blurring of Colors
Overview
“To end this unit, in this lesson I will talk about what is perhaps the most complex thing when working with watercolors: the amount of water in your brush and the blurring of the pigment. ”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Blending and Blurring of Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors. Learn to work with watercolor to paint expressive hands that tell stories through their shape, size, texture, color, and movement.
Partial transcription of the video
“Blending and blurring of colors Now I will teach you how to make color fusion, what does cauliflower mean in watercolor and how to blur very large spots. Let's start with the color fusion. In this case I'm going to use a number six brush. I wet it like always and I'm going to have a little red. I put it on the palette. In this case I am going to add a touch more water. I'll put it on paper as we had thought in previous lessons. To blur, clean brush, remove excess water. I place half in and half out and start dragging the pigment. If you see that your pigment is advancing, instead of blurrin...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
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Category
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Areas
Figure Drawing, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Sol Barrios
A course by Sol Barrios
Self-taught artist Sol Barrios has been painting portraits for around six years, teaching classes, and taking the streets with paste-up murals. She started out as an art director for a cultural magazine and, little by little, she began specializing in the world of graphic arts to later flow into the world of painting through watercolor.
In her work, the contrast between dark and light colors is key, looking to put faces in the forefront of her art and define the unique characteristics of each human being.
She works for private art collections and has participated in many exhibitions in Chile, such as FAxxi and ArtStgo. Her murals can be found in the streets of Santiago as well as in restaurants, studios, and homes.
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