Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
Intermediate Layer and Volumes
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolor and Mural Artist
About the video: Intermediate Layer and Volumes
Overview
“I already have my first layer ready, now I will move on to what is called the intermediate layer. Here I will teach you how to create volumes from the blurring process. ”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Intermediate Layer and Volumes, 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
“Intermediate layer and volumes Now we have to paint an intermediate layer which will give you the volumes at hand. For that we are going to continue with our skin color two. We only use skin color one to make the first gouache. Now we move in darkness, in a tone more and we go to our second mix. For these elements I am going to choose a brush number two a little smaller than the previous one because I need more precision in each of the brush strokes. I take the brush. I moisten it in the water. I choose the second color. I'm going to wet it too and I take it to the test sheet. It's too load...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
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Category
Illustration -
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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