Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

Overview

“I am going to show you some journals that I have started, I will also tell you what a naturalist journal is and what it is for. You will realize that a journal can be your personal museum, where you host collections of what you are passionate about, I invite you in this course to do it with natural species, but you can make as many diaries as you want and with the topics you want.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Journals, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook. Explore and interpret the natural world by combining watercolor with graphite pencil and fineliners.

Partial transcription of the video

“Unit 1 The journals In this lesson I will explain what this course will be about. We will do different technique exercises that can be useful to apply in the illustrations of your naturalist journal. You can do some parts of the course outdoors, and finish in your studio, or you can do everything at home. The goal is to have a journal where we get inspired by nature. It is not a field notebook in the strict sense, it's only the theme that we will use to create the habit of drawing on our journal. First, I'll explain what a journal is. It is a pocket notebook, like the ones journalists take ...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (1081)
• 26884 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 52m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting