Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Ink techniques: light and shadow
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
About the video: Ink techniques: light and shadow
Overview
“Now, let's go to a more artistic stage. I'll show you how you can make your art even more interesting by adding texture, light and shadow.”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Ink techniques: light and shadow, 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
“Ink techniques: light and shadow In this class, I will teach you how to make your illustration more interesting, with texture, light and shadow. For that, I'm going to do a quick exercise here. First, I'm going to take my brush and use the base color. These are the colors I have already chosen for this exercise. and I will make more or less the outline of the illustration that I'm going to want to exercise here. I'm here just doing the color high, the base of that element. I like to use these pots because they have a lid and that helps to conserve the ink. I can do mixes and everything and ...”
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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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