Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners
Watercolor and gouache
A course by Ana Santos , Painter and illustrator
About the video: Watercolor and gouache
Overview
“One of my favorite techniques is to use gouache plus watercolor. We will also work wet on wet and we will be leaving surprised, but this time in a similar way, but different from the chameleon. In this case, I will only use white (which will help me to create lights) and red to give much more intensity and opacity to certain parts of the fish. You can use the colors you want. ”
In this video lesson Ana Santos addresses the topic: Watercolor and gouache, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners. Learn how to paint with watercolor from scratch and make the most out of your mistakes.
Partial transcription of the video
“WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE In this lesson we'll combine watercolor and gouache. I may also use the charcoal I used earlier. I'll also use a block of paper, which is glued, it means the paper is held on all sides and tensed on the block. We don't need to use masking tape. This one is 600 grams. Well, 640, it's a fairly high grammage. It means you can wet it with a lot of water and paint. This brand is pretty good and quite expensive. You don't have to buy it. It's just for you to know it. For this exercise I've chosen a fish. It's in black and white to be freer about the colors. I've put a grid ...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Ana Santos
A course by Ana Santos
Drawing has been Ana's passion since she was a child, so she didn't think twice about enrolling in a fine arts school where she specialized in drawing and graphic design. She has always been fascinated by the human figure, which often appears in one form or another in her personal projects.
Ana combines traditional and digital techniques and is an expert at capturing expressive looks, strong attitudes, and somber moods in her illustrations, which have appeared in publications from major publishers such as Penguin Random House, Editorial Planeta, and Roca Editorial.
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