Botanical Watercolor: Illustrating Art and Science
Watercolour Techniques
A course by Julia Trickey , Botanical Artist
About the video: Watercolour Techniques
Overview
“Here you will see me demonstrate a range of watercolour techniques using the key elements of water and colour. By varying the amount and proportions of these elements on your brush, you can create different effects and textures used for botanical painting. ”
In this video lesson Julia Trickey addresses the topic: Watercolour Techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Watercolor: Illustrating Art and Science. Learn to transform everyday subjects like fruit into realistic botanical portraits by combining observational drawing with contemporary watercolor techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Watercolour Techniques In this lesson, I'll use a range of watercolour techniques using the key elements of water and colour. By varying the amounts of these, you can create different effects and textures. On the table, I've got my watercolour equipment and I'm just using one colour for these exercises, which is this blue in a tube. Like I say, you get lovely, rich, dark colours by using tube paint. I'll show various watercolour techniques in these circles here. We'll start with a wetter technique. For this, you need more water and paint and a decent size brush. I'll use this one. I'll al...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor: Illustrating Art and Science
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Julia Trickey
A course by Julia Trickey
Julia Trickey is an award-winning botanical artist and tutor based in Bath, England. She grew up in a creative household and loved drawing from a young age, capturing seascapes and the natural world around her. She went on to study at art college and, years later, discovered a passion for botanical art after signing up for a class on the subject while in search of a hobby.
Since then, Julia has exhibited her work both in England and abroad and received awards, including four gold medals from the Royal Horticultural Society. She also teaches botanical art to others around the world and has been involved in several public art projects. Julia has written articles for national and international art journals and has various self-published guides for botanical artists. She also creates art for clients including Royal Mail and shares her work with over 30K followers on Instagram.
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