Botanical Watercolor Painting of the Natural World
Composition: Creating a Collage
A course by Helena Smyth , Watercolor Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Composition: Creating a Collage
Overview
“It's time to make my own unique collage using inspiring images from the mood board. You will learn how to do this digitally using Procreate. ”
In this video lesson Helena Smyth addresses the topic: Composition: Creating a Collage, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Watercolor Painting of the Natural World. Explore color theory, layers, composition, and texture to capture the beauty of nature through watercolor illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to create our own unique composition. using our favorite images found in the previous lesson where we made a mood board. I prefer to do this on Procreate. by digitally collaging the images together to create a unique composition. I find that the approach of using collage to create compositions has been so important for my development with compositions. to paint from using watercolour. It is such a playful approach. and create so many different serendipitous outcomes You never know what images you might stumble across or how they might interact. I find this parti...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Painting of the Natural World
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Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Helena Smyth
A course by Helena Smyth
Helena Smyth is a watercolor artist and illustrator specializing in natural history artworks and botanical illustrations. Having graduated in illustration from the University of Brighton, she is now living and working in Northern Ireland. Her work resides predominately in the natural world, as it is an endless source of inspiration to her.
She seeks to highlight the importance of biodiversity and to explore the relationship that humankind holds with the rest of nature. Her work aims to bring about a sense of wonder and awe in our living world. Helena’s illustrations are influenced by traditional biological illustrations, but she seeks to bring a contemporary approach to this way of working by nodding to fantasy, surreal realms and contemporary design.
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