About the video: Influences / Mike Thomas
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll share my major influences and the life experiences that inspire my artwork.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Influences / Mike Thomas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks. Master gouache painting techniques to create expressive landscapes with vibrant colors, focusing on composition and color theory.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I'll share with you some of my artistic influences, the artists and the artistic movements that I went back to throughout my work. One of the artists I studied at school was Edward Hopper, an American realist who fascinated me by the way he captures lights and how it falls through windows, buildings, or solitary figures in a quite cinematic composition. I love that cinematic composition. I love how his artworks capture a moment of place and time. They're realistic but not too much. He's not striving to replicate a photo or anything. They're a bit pulled back, so...”
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Course summary for: Gouache Painting Specialization: Create Vibrant Artworks
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Architectural Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

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