Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
How Each Media Works on Paper: Techniques 1
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: How Each Media Works on Paper: Techniques 1
Overview
“Something that led me to work in mixed media is that each technique has something different and unique to offer. In this lesson, I will teach you how each technique reacts on paper and what happens when we combine them. ”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: How Each Media Works on Paper: Techniques 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art. Explore the wonders of nature and learn how to bring it to life on paper using ink, pencils, watercolor, gouache, and your vision of the botanical world.
Partial transcription of the video
“ How Each Media Works on Paper: Techniques In this lesson, we will start to do fun stuff. Yes! The point of doing this is to understand how each media works. This is my main point here, because I think it's very important to... Before starting to draw big and going crazy, I think it's important to understand how each media works, to understand the logic and how each media reacts on paper. We will start now working with water-soluble pencils and crayons as well. Because on the first page we did, we already used permanent pencils and this way we were able to understand how pencils work. Now ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Rommygon ☻
A course by Rommygon ☻
Rommy Gonzalez is a Chilean artist based in Berlin. She studied motion graphics at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and photography Direction in Barcelona before spending a decade as a visual artist, graphic designer and art director. Rommy’s love of the natural world led to her to create the Mountopia series of paintings, which became a solo exhibition in Berlin in 2019.
Rommy’s work has been featured in Chilean street art magazine Fragmentos and tourism magazine Stgo B. She co-founded the Women in Science collective, and is represented by The Different Folk agency.
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