Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook
Gesture-Drawing Exercise
A course by Claudio Patanè , Architect and Teacher
About the video: Gesture-Drawing Exercise
Overview
“Now I will show you the gesture drawing exercise, which involves drawing the image portrayed in a postcard using only the watercolor technique, without a pencil. ”
In this video lesson Claudio Patanè addresses the topic: Gesture-Drawing Exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook. Learn to create, arrange, and bind an artistic journal to depict your daily travels through words, drawings, and objects.
Partial transcription of the video
“Gesture Drawing In this lesson, I'll tell you about gesture drawing, which is the opposite of timed drawing. For gesture drawing, we'll use watercolor as a main technique and only color, so we won't draw the outline in pencil or pen on the background, but rather apply color directly and only color. I'll use the postcard from the previous lesson plus tools such as water brushes, which are these brushes with a water reservoir and different tips and sizes: a large, round tip and a small, round tip, as well as two flat tips, small and large. We will also use A5 watercolor paper and the 24-pan w...”
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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Painting, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting

Claudio Patanè
A course by Claudio Patanè
Claudio Patanè is an architect and teacher based in Sicily. After graduating in architecture, he went on to collaborate with a studio in Lisbon. Once back on Italian soil, he began teaching and researching at a number of universities and art academies.
He currently holds workshops and classes as well as produces pieces for publications, editorial series, private commissions, wine labels, and more. He also collaborates as a journalistic writer for Suq. Unconventional Sicily.
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