Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
Materials 2
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Materials 2
Overview
“In the second part of this lesson, I will discuss the necessary and optional tools that you will need to draw and paint. ”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: Materials 2, 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
“ Materials Now we are back to see the tools that we need to draw and paint. There are some things that are 100% needed and some others that are optional. For example, what is 100% needed? Brushes. You need different kinds of brushes, different thicknesses. For example, is ideal to have a zero brush and then different sizes until you have a big one. Why is it important to have a big one? Because as we'll be watering on paper, you need to be fast. This is something that you will see in the next lessons. We need to be fast and in order to be fast, you need a bigger brush. Make sure that these...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
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Category
Illustration -
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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