Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
Image Search and Preparation
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolor and Mural Artist
About the video: Image Search and Preparation
Overview
“When choosing the image you want to paint, there are several issues that you should pay attention to. In this lesson, I'll talk about what you need to keep in mind before you start painting. To understand this, I will show you different photographs as examples of what to consider and what not to consider when painting. I'll also show you how to use a Pinterest board and royalty-free images. Lastly, I will transform the reference photo with an image editor.”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Image Search and Preparation, 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
“Search and preparation of the image In this lesson we can get down to work and we will start looking for the image with which we will work the rest of the course. I am going to show you three pages with royalty-free images so that you do not have any problem when reproducing them. Let's start, for example, with freeimages.com. On this page you will find different hands in contexts. For example, this one you're holding earth in your palms. Here we have one with higher contrast. We have an open hand where we find grooves, which are quite difficult elements when painting with watercolor. Then ...”
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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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