Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson you will compose your own greens, a tricky color that is actually everything except green. We will create a small table of four by five boxes. • On the horizontal, we will use four different yellows: cadnium yellow deep, Naples yellow medium, primary yellow and green gold. • On the vertical, five kinds of blue: turquoise cobalt, cobalt blue, primary blue, faience blue (or ultramarine) and indigo. At the intersection in the boxes, you will mix the two pigments with half water dilution. I usually do not use too much pigment, I want the watercolor to be light to keep reading the linework. This will be an average, the color may change depending on the proportion of both pigments. It will then help you to get the closest color of the plant you are observing. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Colour Techniques: Create Your Greens, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques. Develop botanical illustration skills with watercolor, gouache, and ink techniques, blending realism and artistic expression.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I will show you a few tips to create your own green without using any green pigments. You might notice that in my watercolor box, I have no green pigments and I'm creating it with a mix of yellow and different blue. And that's what we would experiment right now. You can find many green pigments, but it would be in a way too easy to catch these greens, to paint the grass in green and your tree in green. All the succulents we will work on tulip leaves, because it will create Kind of. An accurate and artificial green. I want you to look for all the variations that are going fro...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 80 students
• 7 units
• 115 lessons (1d 1h 25m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting