Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Influences
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Artists from different creative areas influence my work. In this class, I will talk about some of these references and what catches my attention in their work.”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art. Learn acrylic techniques to bring colorful, vibrant pieces to life on a range of surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In this class, I will show you some people that marked my trajectory in the art world. When I think of my beginnings, I automatically think of Margaret Mee, who is a botanical illustrator. This type of illustration was my first passion and Margaret Mee was enchanted by our tropical nature. within Brazil, she specializes in plants from the Amazon. A story of hers that I really like was her search for the moon flower, which is a species of cactus that only opens at night. As botanical illustrators only record what they can see live, Margaret had a great adventure to find this cactu...”
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Course summary for: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting
Maria Gabriela Andrade
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade
Rio de Janeiro native Maria Gabriela Andrade started off her career in fashion and has been working in the field ever since. She has studied at SENAI CETIQT in Rio de Janeiro, Central Saint Martins in London, and Porto Illustration School in Porto, always with the intention of broadening her artistic vision.
Her work explores nature as well as tropical and Brazilian culture. Using lots of color, contrast, texture, and organic shapes, she loves experimenting with different mediums like watercolor, gouache, pastels, colored pencils, and acrylics.
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