Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
Pencils and Crayons 1
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Pencils and Crayons 1
Overview
“The medium that characterizes me the most (I think) is the use of pencils. Painting with pencils is a varied and subtle art. In this lesson, you will learn some skills and strengths that this medium has on paper. ”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: Pencils and Crayons 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
“Okay, so in this lesson, we will start with permanent pencils and water-soluble pencils. The first thing to understand is that We will use the water-soluble pencils because They give us a base. to then highlight and push The colors up. with the permanent pencil. So. I will start with this. that I show already in the material lesson, Museum Aquarelle. And I will Put them on this palette here. And use the color. just to have a little base. And I go... With a water brush. Now we'll, give the first layer to the areas where this color has like a main predominance. For example, in this case the f...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
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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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