Artistic Portrait with Watercolors
Defining face
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Defining face
Overview
“Once the main spots and the generic features are placed, we must enter the definition of the face. In this lesson you will learn the key points that make up a face and make it “understandable” to the viewer. Through successive layers and spots of color we will configure the personality of our portrait.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Defining face, 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 start defining the face. to create contrasts that will give us the volume of the face. We'll start working on it or mainly with low-cavity brushes. Remember, they're harder and less flexible, I'll draw better. I'll add what we'd call a layer of nexus in the darker areas and we'll do it with a purple. If we see this portrait, we see it's overshadowed by red. So I'll use a purple and violet modified with a bit of phthalo to make it cooler. See how this purple is already cold? As you can see, the purple is not always in the same brightness. I can raise or lower it accord...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Portrait with Watercolors
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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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