Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
Gouache
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Gouache
Overview
“Here's a technique that we first learned about at school but soon became forgotten: painting with gouache. In this lesson, I will show you how I use this material. You will learn why I incorporate this media into the final stages of my painting process and the features that it offers.”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: Gouache, 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
“ Gouache After everything we have done on the A3 composition, we've arrived to almost the last step. I said "almost," because then we'll do the last touch-ups, but here we will do the last step of painting, which is gouache. Why is this the last step of painting? Because within my process I've realized that as I work with a lot of water-soluble materials, if I work with gouache before this, everything will mix up. And a good way of closing, for example, backgrounds and closing edges and making the last details, as this paint is super thick and it has a very matte finishing, we are able to ...”
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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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