Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
The Color Palette
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolor and Mural Artist
About the video: The Color Palette
Overview
“Now I'll show you how to create a color palette based on what the reference photo inspires. First of all, I will show you how to choose the colors based on the image, although you can add other colors that you want. Then I'll explain a few things about what color theory is, and for this I'll use a printed chromatic rose. Finally, I will do a practical exercise to show you how to mix the colors. ”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: The Color Palette, 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
“the color palette In this lesson I am going to teach you how to put together the color palette. What I do is always start with the color palettes ready. That's why we're going to start putting it together from the beginning. With the image ready, as we had worked before, we are going to review the colors that we are going to use. For example, we have different shades of skin color. Let's work with a light-skinned hand, since it is much easier and it will help you to start training in this watercolor world. In this image we have different skin tones. We will start with a light-skinned image,...”
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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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