Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
Permanent Inks and Watercolor 1
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Permanent Inks and Watercolor 1
Overview
“Next, you will learn how to manage the balance between freedom and control. I will show you how to channel this playful medium that often surprises us. Inks and watercolors are similar but different at the same time. In this lesson, I will give you an overview of the differences and effects of these media. They allow us to maintain the basis of our composition yet let our interpretation be free.”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: Permanent Inks and Watercolor 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
“ Permanent Inks and Watercolor Now that the masking glue is dry, the fun part comes. Yes! Now you need to understand that before starting you need to have everything at hand. Everything that is water-related, watercolor, inks, brushes, the tray, and your paper towel or cloth you need them close to you in order to be fast, because something that you have to know is that water gets dry quite fast and in order to get the best result, you need to be fast. So, we have everything. In this case, I will start with the base, which is the tree trunk, and I will go with my biggest brush. I'll put som...”
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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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