Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Spread the Color: The Plumage in Positive 2
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Spread the Color: The Plumage in Positive 2
Overview
“It's time to show you other effective drafting techniques. You will see how to make a gradient with a combination of two colors and how to use the wet-on-wet technique.”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Spread the Color: The Plumage in Positive 2, 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: positive plumage Let's face the other side of the feather now with a much smaller brush. Let's take brush number 2. The process is the same. The only thing is that the brush is very small and therefore capable of retaining much less water, we will have to be extremely careful not to run out of water halfway. I bathe the brush ... first in the water and then in the pigment. As before, from top to bottom. Now we are in the middle of the wing, so I quickly rinse the brush, I take water and I hang on to the color I have just spread, still fresh. And we have our nuance. This is...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
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Category
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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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