Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
Skin Tones from Any Color
A course by Sol Barrios , Watercolor and Mural Artist
About the video: Skin Tones from Any Color
Overview
“Learning to prepare the ideal skin color for our projects is very important. As you know, the color of each person's skin is unique and knowing how to prepare one is not enough. In this lesson I will teach you how to create different skin tones from any color.”
In this video lesson Sol Barrios addresses the topic: Skin Tones from Any Color, 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
“Skin tones from any color In this lesson we are going to dig a little deeper on the subject of skin tones. For this we will follow the logic of the color wheel. Remember that to desaturate a color you must use the opposite on the color wheel. I show you with an example. I will take any brush. In this case I'm going to use a number four brush. Let's start with the simplest. I'm going to have some toasted sienna. I wet the brush as usual. I wet the color and I'm going to test it on paper. As you can see, this color is orange. Therefore, the one that is opposite would be blue. Let's use some u...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Illustration of Hands with Expressive Watercolors
-
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.
- 100% positive reviews (53)
- 1,514 students
- 12 lessons (1h 33m)
- 15 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
