Illustrating the Natural World with Watercolor and Charcoal
The First Layer
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
About the video: The First Layer
Overview
“Now, I will apply a pale variegated wash for the sky and background. Then, I will add slightly darker paint using the wet-on-wet technique to indicate initial grasses and distant flowers. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: The First Layer, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating the Natural World with Watercolor and Charcoal. Learn to illustrate the beauty of nature through expressive brushstrokes and charcoal techniques to create a vibrant scene of a wild meadow.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The First Layer In this lesson, we'll apply our first wash. You may have noticed that my board is at an angle and that's because we'll apply a wash and we want it to flow down the paper like this. I've got a range of colours here. We have a cerulean blue here, and that's going to turn into quinacridone gold here, then into greens, and then into a dark brown, which I'll make with crimson and blues so it will give us more of a purply browny colour, right at the very base. I'm doing the blues at the top and the warm at the front because obviously we want a lovely blue summer sky, but also I ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating the Natural World with Watercolor and Charcoal
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Category
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Areas
Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration
Sarah Stokes
A course by Sarah Stokes
Sarah Stokes is a self-taught artist from the Midlands region in England, a place where she finds inspiration and creates work that is full of life. From a young age, Sarah has always been her happiest when painting and drawing, using her creativity to build a successful business career before deciding to return to what she loved most.
She has created artwork for bands, restaurants, breweries, and schools, as well as giftware for clients like Enesco. Her work is exhibited in Whitewall Galleries, Clarendon Fine Art, and several independent galleries. Sarah’s prints can also be found worldwide in places like Next, Wayfair, and on Amazon.
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