The Art of Tea Bag Painting
Painting a Birch Tree
A course by Ruby Silvious , Graphic Designer and Visual Artist
About the video: Painting a Birch Tree
Overview
“My next painting will be birch tree trunks. Birches are native to the northeast of the US, where I live. I will paint them with three different backgrounds after.”
In this video lesson Ruby Silvious addresses the topic: Painting a Birch Tree, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Tea Bag Painting. Explore watercolor and gouache to create miniature paintings using the emptied-out tea bags as a canvas..
Partial transcription of the video
“We just finished painting the teacup. In this lesson, we are going to paint our next subject, the birch tree. So we're going to sketch just a few birch tree trunks on our teabag. And as you know, birch tree trunks are not necessarily straight. So try to make them look as natural as possible. They're kind of lithey and thin, and some are intertwining with others. So these are just really sketches. And for this particular subject, we are actually going to paint the background first before the birch tree trunks. So the background will be in blue, which is about 2 3rds of your teabag. And then ...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Tea Bag Painting
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Ruby Silvious
A course by Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious is a Graphic Designer and Visual Artist based in the United States. She has been making upcycled art since she retired, taking discarded materials to create unique worlds of art. Her claim to fame is her work using tea bags, which went viral on Instagram in 2015. It has since been featured in international publications such as CNN Travel, PBS, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan China, and Vogue Italia. Her work has been exhibited across the world, from the U.S. to Japan to Europe.
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