Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

Overview

“The time has come to include the color! Watercolor as many already know, is my favorite part. In this lesson I am going to teach you some basic exercises to understand how the technique works, I will work a landscape in which I am going to paint wet, dry and degraded in color. It is the first approach with watercolor, but throughout the following lessons, I will be sharing more tips and ways to mix watercolor with pencil and ink.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Watercolor exercises, 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 3 Watercolor exercises Watercolor, as many of you know, is my favorite part. In this lesson I'll introduce this technique with very basic principles. First you should know that there are two watercolor techniques: wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry. From these two principles we have many other possibilities when working with wet and dry techniques. In the sketchbook I will do some exercises so that you understand the techniques. If we work with wet-on-wet, this means that our paper is going to be wet. As you can see, when we do the watercolor stroke on the wet base, this line is blurred: it ten...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (1081)
• 26886 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 52m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting