Gouache Sketchbook: Painting Your Surroundings
Painting the Project 2
A course by Don Kilpatrick III , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Painting the Project 2
Overview
“Here, I will continue to adjust the values of my painting to refine how they relate to each other. This experimentation is important to maintain throughout the painting process, even when rendering in the smaller details. Once I'm happy with the piece, the next step is to digitize it!”
In this video lesson Don Kilpatrick III addresses the topic: Painting the Project 2, 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
“ Painting the Project Everything I'm doing at this stage, even though I'm putting in the fine details is still adjusting colors and values and seeing how they are vibing with each other. For example, as you can see, I've lightened values on the smokestack, but now I realize I need to add a bit more of a light gray, or blue gray in this instance for the smoke or the steam billowing out of the smokestack. Another important part of this composition are the lights of the building shining through the steam at the very top here. I will do that next. One of the things I like about my photo refere...”
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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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