Watercolor Wildlife in Positive and Negative
Adding Shadows, Glazes and Retouching 1
A course by Silvia Molinari , Painter
About the video: Adding Shadows, Glazes and Retouching 1
Overview
“Once the color phases have been completed, here I will move on to volumes, essential for the liveliness of the works. I'll start by working on the portrait in positive.”
In this video lesson Silvia Molinari addresses the topic: Adding Shadows, Glazes and Retouching 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
“Add shadows, glazes and retouches After you have let it dry, settle your work, you can pick it up again to understand which are the parts in need of new interventions. Let's see how in this lesson. From experience, the shadows part is always very neglected. A lot of attention is paid to colors and design, but then you forget about this fundamental part to make it alive, real and well inserted in the context our subject. So, in this lesson we see how to deal with it. Let's start with the glazes with a medium-sized brush. This whole area needs a more golden glaze. Therefore, I take the color....”
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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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