Realistic Botanical Illustration: Escape to Nature
Painting Wet on Wet 3
A course by Katerina Kolberg , Watercolor Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Painting Wet on Wet 3
Overview
“Once all three bodies of the bumblebees are ready, I will introduce you to the dry brush technique for the wings and I will show you how to use white colour to paint the eyes.”
In this video lesson Katerina Kolberg addresses the topic: Painting Wet on Wet 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Botanical Illustration: Escape to Nature. Learn to paint detailed botanical illustrations by exploring the versatility of watercolor and experimenting with glazes, color values, and textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Painting Wet on Wet Now, we will paint our third bumblebee. We'll prewet the area that we will be working on. I am checking how the paper shines. With this bumblebee, it is a bit funny because its lower stripe is more yellow and its upper stripe is more orange and I will paint it that way. I will start with the lower one, which is yellow. The second one is orange. It can happen that sometimes my paints get mixed with other colors, but you can quickly wash your half pan like that. It happens quite often, to be honest. Now I have pure orange again. The second stripe will be somewhere here. ...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Botanical Illustration: Escape to Nature
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Katerina Kolberg
A course by Katerina Kolberg
Katerina Kolberg is an award-winning watercolor artist and illustrator from Ukraine. After exploring the arts early on in life, she pursued a degree in architecture and urban planning. She later took up painting again when she moved to Norway, honing her watercolor technique to achieve realism efficiently. With her delicate and detailed botanical illustrations, she has received numerous commissions for packaging, advertising campaigns, textiles, and stationery.
Katerina’s distinctive style has led to collaborations with brands such as Yoplait, Vivi Kola, Monarte, Roland Foods, Freerange Market, and Fairmont Hotels. Her illustrations have won various awards and have been featured in publications like Feeling Plants and A Fairy Tale about Love: Wedding Graphic Design.
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