Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
Materials and Workspace
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Materials and Workspace
Overview
“In this lesson, I will cover the materials and supplies you will need to get your course project started. You will learn how to set up an effective workspace ready to start painting. ”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: Materials and Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings. Use a sketchbook as a tool to develop your artistic style by exploring color theory and other painting principles to document the world around you.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Materials and Workspace Now that you know about my artistic influences, in this lesson, I'll cover the materials that you'll need for your final project as well as how I set up my workspace. For your final project, one of the main things that I use to create my cityscape painting is a multimedia sketchbook. Multimedia sketchbook In addition to a multimedia sketchbook, I like to have a paperweight or something like it around to hold down the paper as I'm painting. One of the things that's important when you choose your sketchbook is that the paper is nice and thick. I recommend 100 g paper...”
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Course summary for: Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching
Don Kilpatrick III
A course by Don Kilpatrick III
Don Kilpatrick III is an American artist, illustrator, and educator based in Detroit. He received his bachelor’s degree in illustration at Utah State University, and went on to receive a master’s in the same field at Syracuse University. He is currently the department chairman in the Illustration Department at the College for Creative Studies.
Don is also a freelance artist and part of the collaborative project the Detroit Wood Type Co. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and has been featured in publications like Fortune, the L.A. Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Other notable projects include designing the Olympic medal for the Winter Games in 2002, as well as designing murals for the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
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