Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Prepare the Color
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Prepare the Color
Overview
“Transparent but not washed out, intense but not opaque: this is how the watercolor color should look. Now I will teach you how to prepare it.”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Prepare the Color, 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
“Prepare the color In this lesson we will see how to prepare the color. The watercolor color must be transparent but not smudged, intense but not opaque. To achieve these two things, we are faced with some tricks. The first is the choice of good quality materials, and I told you about it in the previous lesson, then the use of always clean water intervenes, prepare the color on ceramic or metal palettes to have a perfect color rendering. Make color tests on pieces of paper, scraps, preferably of the same quality as the paper you will be using for the final project. In fact, from paper to pap...”
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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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