Artistic Techniques for Illustrating Nature
About Me
A course by Cristina Cilloniz , Botanical Illustrator
Joined November 2017
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you my story. I will tell you about my career and the projects and milestones that have most excited me in my work.”
In this video lesson Cristina Cilloniz addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Techniques for Illustrating Nature. Create organic, delicate, and balanced compositions by playing with different techniques like watercolor, gouache, and acrylic.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Cristina Cilloniz, I am Peruvian and I live in Lima. I am an architect by profession, but I found in illustration a process to heal. I especially connected a lot with watercolors because it made me disconnect from everything and it connected me a lot with the present. I am self-taught, it all started as a game and giving me a space of peace who helped me and accompanied me in a healing process. When I was discharged, I returned to my architecture studio and I realized that it was no longer my thing. I think that when you have difficult experiences his life is ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Techniques for Illustrating Nature
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Botanical Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Cristina Cilloniz
A course by Cristina Cilloniz
For Cristina Cilloniz, watercolor was a source of creativity and growth at a crucial moment in her life. An architect by profession and passionate about nature, she decided to change the trajectory of her life in 2016, when she began to dedicate herself exclusively to botanical watercolor illustration and turned it into a tool to explore, heal and share.
He has collaborated with renowned brands such as L'Occitane, Patagonia and Faber-Castell in different formats: stationery products, wallpapers, fabrics and wood.
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