Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Spread the Color: The Plumage in Negative
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Spread the Color: The Plumage in Negative
Overview
“Having seen how to paint positively, I will now show you how to prepare and apply color for monochrome plumage. ”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Spread the Color: The Plumage in Negative, 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
“Spread the color: the plumage in negative In this lesson we see how to prepare and apply the color for the table in monochrome. Preparing the color for the monochrome table is much easier. First, let's talk about only one color, white. In addition, the Ecoline color is already fluid. White Ecoline is an opaque, rather dense color, so in order not to make the drafting too similar to that of tempera, it is necessary to resort to some precautions. The first is to make a preparatory drawing already accompanied by well-executed brush strokes at the tip. These strokes have been made with the tip ...”
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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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