Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

Overview

“Here's a technique that we first learned about at school but soon became forgotten: painting with gouache. In this lesson, I will show you how I use this material. You will learn why I incorporate this media into the final stages of my painting process and the features that it offers.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Gouache, 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

“ Gouache After everything we have done on the A3 composition, we've arrived to almost the last step. I said "almost," because then we'll do the last touch-ups, but here we will do the last step of painting, which is gouache. Why is this the last step of painting? Because within my process I've realized that as I work with a lot of water-soluble materials, if I work with gouache before this, everything will mix up. And a good way of closing, for example, backgrounds and closing edges and making the last details, as this paint is super thick and it has a very matte finishing, we are able to ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 89 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