Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Preparatory Drawing: Positive and Negative 1
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Preparatory Drawing: Positive and Negative 1
Overview
“For a good portrait you need a good drawing. Here you will see how to do it! I'll start with the drawing on white paper, in square format.”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Preparatory Drawing: Positive and Negative 1, 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
“Preparatory drawing: positive and negative In this lesson we will begin the comparative design for both the positive and negative portraits. First, choose the format of your painting. For mine I chose a square format, a 20 x 20, which seems very elegant to me. The image I have chosen already has a rather off-center subject with respect to the axis of the sheet. You can see, in fact, that everything is shifted to the right. This causes the image to have a lot of air, a lot of breath on the left side, therefore it gives an extremely airy, mobile overall image. It already suggests the idea of ...”
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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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