Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Painting the leaves
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Painting the leaves
Overview
“Here we will begin to put into real practice everything we have seen so far. All materials come into play!”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Painting the leaves, 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
“painting the leaves In this class, I'm going to paint the sheets of my drawing. Here on the side, I already have the paints that I'm going to use for the foliage and also a glass of water to clean the brush while painting. On the other side I have a dry cloth to remove excess water from the brush and also excess paint. The first thing I do is pass the base color of my drawing. I started using this brush here a little bigger, because I'm going to paint a more extensive area, so I don't need much precision. I usually always wear this medium shade of green and then enter with the clearest, whi...”
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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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