Illustrating the Natural World with Watercolor and Charcoal
The Third Layer 1
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
About the video: The Third Layer 1
Overview
“With the background complete, in this lesson, I will remove the masking tape and add colour to the flowers and bees. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: The Third Layer 1, 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 Third Layer In this lesson, we'll add colour to the bees and the flowers and add a bit more depth to the background. I'll start with the daisies, and here are my reference photos. I'll start with the yellows in the middle first of all. It will activate the yellow for the middle. This is cad yellow, the same one we used in the exercise before. There's no yellow showing in that one, so I'll leave that one. Then we'll get some orange. Now we'll add the shadows in the whites. To do that, I'll use cerulean blue, the same colour I used for the sky. I want quite a watery mix. In this daisy t...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating the Natural World with Watercolor and Charcoal
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Category
Illustration -
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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