Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Creating an image bank for tropical compositions
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Creating an image bank for tropical compositions
Overview
“In this lesson, I'm going to share with you a way to build a folder of tropical references. It will help you create a composition to be painted in your project and be a source of inspiration for future work.”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Creating an image bank for tropical compositions, 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
“Creating an image bank for tropical compositions Now, I will tell you important points for you to create a reference folder. First, I always look for photos of these elements, because that way we can get a picture of how they really are, free of interpretation and artistic intervention. To do this, just use any search engine you prefer. As the objective of the course is to make a tropical work, I recommend that you search for pictures of animals, fruits, flowers, what you are going to represent. Parallel to that, I advise you to do another research with images that please you, that you admi...”
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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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