Expressive Floral Painting with Acrylic Paint
Preparing the Background Color
A course by Sonal Nathwani , Painter
About the video: Preparing the Background Color
Overview
“To get started, you will need to choose, create, and paint a background color onto your pages. I will give you an example of how to do this, explaining my thought processes on the way. ”
In this video lesson Sonal Nathwani addresses the topic: Preparing the Background Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Floral Painting with Acrylic Paint. Explore drawing and painting techniques to boost your illustration skills, creating botanical compositions with colored pencils, acrylics and crayons..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to start working on our final project. We'll begin by choosing a background colour. For our pages. For our flowers, we have... a nice mix of spring flowers. We have anemones in purple. These are... have very soft petals and You can see there's some variations within the petals with light and dark purple. is the base. These contrast really well with the orange tulips. tulips have a very specific structure and It can be quite difficult to paint them when they're closed, when they open. We also have in contrast to the anemone, closed. Tulip. which gives a nice contr...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Floral Painting with Acrylic Paint
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Acrylic Painting, Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Painting
Sonal Nathwani
A course by Sonal Nathwani
Born in Malawi, Africa to Indian parents, Sonal Nathwani grew up in England and now lives with her family in Vienna, Austria. She’s drawn and painted for as long as she can remember, with only a short pause while she studied finance at university. Her love of art was rekindled by an opportunity to study at the renowned Charles H. Cecil studios in Florence, Italy. This pivotal experience ultimately led her to leave a career in finance to pursue her passion for painting.
She now spends her time painting and creating art for various markets and companies including Minted, Artfully Walls, Hallmark, Marks & Spencer, Anthropologie, Samsung, as well as for private collections worldwide. She also enjoys teaching small groups in her studio. In the past, she’s collaborated with florists and led floral painting workshops in Italy and the USA.
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