Artistic Portrait with Watercolors
Grisaille
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Grisaille
Overview
“In this lesson you will discover the principles of the grisaille technique, the intensities of the layers of color and their combination as the basis of the portrait in watercolor. I will also show you the correct way to use the dryer between layers.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Grisaille, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Portrait with Watercolors. Learn a foolproof technique for creating watercolor portraits, from the sketch to the finished piece.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will see the concept of the grisaille, We'll start with the main watercolors of this simple methodology, in which we'll combine cold and warm colors. When I started in the watercolor world, I didn't know how to solve the tone of the carnations. So what I did was take everything I had learned during my training and look at what techniques or what ways of doing other techniques such as oil I used to apply them to watercolor. There's a technique used in the oil called grisaille. I'm sure you've seen it before. A grisaille It's nothing more than a background of colour all the ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Portrait with Watercolors
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Watercolor Painting
Ale Casanova
A course by Ale Casanova
Alejandro Casanova was born in Valencia, Spain in 1981. After studying Fine Art at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he moved to Tenerife where he completed his doctorate. He has received various national and European research grants as well as others for the plastic arts.
His work focuses on the human body and portraiture as a window into the creation of plastic art. He also composes oil paintings, although watercolor is his preferred medium as it allows him to work swiftly and effectively using transparency and the richness of the color spectrum to create figurative pieces. His work has been exhibited in different Spanish as well as other European cities and he has also given numerous workshops across Spain.
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