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Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color

How to Choose the Reference?

A course by Gonzalo Ibáñez , Watercolorist and Architect

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6,294 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: How to Choose the Reference?

Overview

“In this lesson I explain the elements that I consider necessary when choosing a reference image. I will also tell you what things are interesting to pay attention to with respect to color and point of interest.”

In this video lesson Gonzalo Ibáñez addresses the topic: How to Choose the Reference?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color. Discover how to observe light and color in the world around you and learn techniques to convey them through your brushstrokes.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to Choose the Reference In this lesson, I’ll show you how to choose your reference image for the final project and some tips that I use on a daily basis. There is a website with no copyright with a large collection of photographs. That page is in Additional Resources, so you can look at it. I chose some images from some of those galleries to be able to exemplify and note some important points. In this photograph we see a direct light that's hitting the whole back part and we have a front part where there is a lot of ambient light. I was interested in this image because we can see that p...”

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Course summary for: Watercolor Fundamentals: Light and Color

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (192)
6294 students
4 units
14 lessons (2h 42m)
9 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting

Gonzalo Ibáñez

A course by Gonzalo Ibáñez

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Watercolorist and Architect

Gonzalo Ibáñez is an artist who specializes in watercolor landscapes. The difficulty and spontaneity of this technique captivated him in such a way that it became his main form of expression.

He studied architecture at the University of Chile (2017) and holds a diploma in aesthetics and philosophy from PUC (2018). He has participated in festivals and group exhibitions internationally, such as the Kosovo Biennial and the Fabriano Acquarello festival in Italy. He has also won several awards at festivals such as the Mini Castra 2020 in Slovenia and the IWS Chile Viña del Mar 2020.