Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Influences
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Do you want to find out what my influences are? In this lesson I will tell you about the artists who more than others have inspired my pictorial production. ”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative. Explore watercolor and monochrome techniques on dark paper to create a stunning wildlife piece in positive and negative.
Partial transcription of the video
“Sources of inspiration In this lesson I want to tell you about the artists that more than others have influenced my way of painting and my artistic production. The first artist I want to tell you about is Koson Ohara, a Japanese artist active in the late 1800s and the first half of the 20th century, which was a painter, a xylographer and also a talented watercolorist. This book, "The Animal World", is one of my favorites and contains a large number of very good reproductions of his best works. Koson Ohara, with very few elements, intertwining animal and plant world, creates extremely graphi...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Silvia Molinari
A course by Silvia Molinari
Silvia Molinari is a painter who loves portraying the flora and fauna of nature in her art. She began dabbling in watercolors in her youth, shortly before enrolling in the art institute, and has continued to hone her technique ever since.
Throughout her career, she has displayed her work in both individual and group exhibits, including the Emilia Romagna section of the Venice Biennale, the Affordable Art Fair in New York and Milan, and at the Ginza 1-Chome gallery in Tokyo. She regularly collaborates with magazines, organizations, and non-profits such as Gardenia Magazine and Lipu (Lega italiana protezione uccelli). She has also illustrated children's books for the publishers Edizioni Corsare and Topipittori and has been running watercolor seminars and courses since 2008.
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