Naturalistic Illustration in Watercolor and Gouache
Influences
A course by Georgina Taylor , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I will talk about some of my favourite Naturalist painters whose work inspires me and influences my painting style. ”
In this video lesson Georgina Taylor addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalistic Illustration in Watercolor and Gouache. Experiment with textures, shading, lines, and layers to bring to life naturalistic drawings inspired by the world around you using watercolor and gouache paint.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson I'm going to talk about a few artists that have inspired my work. The first artist I want to talk about is Maria Sibylla Merian. Maria was a German-born Swiss naturalist. She dedicated her life to studying and documenting insects, and she painted them in high detail using watercolour. I find her compositions very beautiful. She finds a way of creating high detail. She also puts in interesting aspects like the leaf here has been eaten away. It's not normal to depict that in a painting, but she does it with finesse. You can see in this image she's representing the ...”
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Course summary for: Naturalistic Illustration in Watercolor and Gouache
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Georgina Taylor
A course by Georgina Taylor
Georgina Taylor is a self-taught watercolor illustrator from South Africa. She grew up surrounded by nature and was constantly drawing and painting as a child, hobbies which she pursued into adulthood. During a gap year in the UK, she discovered the magic of watercolors and continued to experiment with them after returning to South Africa to study jewelry design. During that time, she kept a blog with photos of her sketches, which caught the eye of a local textile designer and led to her first paid commission. Soon after, she opened an Instagram account to promote herself and has been living as a freelance artist ever since.
Her lifelong passion for art and nature—combined with a keen eye for detail—have helped her forge a unique illustration style. Her designs have been printed on packaging for cosmetics and food products, as well as on homeware, stationery, and textiles for brands like Mr Price, Estée Lauder, and Rocksoup. One of her most distinguished projects was illustrating the children’s book Made for each other in collaboration with Templar publishing. She also runs an online store selling original art and prints.
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