Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

Overview

“I will use as an model an element of the family fungi to illustrate it with micron pen from different views, finally we will add color with watercolor.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Illustration of a mushroom / mushroom, 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 4 Illustration of a mushroom In this lesson we'll have a mushroom as a model. We are going to illustrate it with a Micron pen, and color it with watercolor. First, we should know the parts of the mushroom, to know from which perspectives you can illustrate without losing important details of its structure. On this sheet we can see some parts of the structure like for example the cap, and on the inside we have the gills and the lamellulae. We also have the base or stipe, and sometimes we find mushrooms that have a ring. When you buy mushrooms at a street market or supermarket, sometimes...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
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• 26886 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 52m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting