Artistic Portrait with Watercolors
Solving problems
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Solving problems
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you some resources that we can apply to solve the possible problems that arise within the work.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Solving problems, 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
“SOLVING PROBLEMS We'll look at how to fix issues that may have occurred when creating our portrait. We've played around with a multitude of layers. This creates a lot of structure and a lot of tonal variety. As you can see, we have very slight blues, very slight reds, variations of quinacridone, some purple... But it's true that it's become too grey. We need a bit more life. The opposite can also occur; that the intensity is too high and we'll need to subdue it. In this case, the colour is too dull. We'll have to add some saturated colours. In this case, we'll add warm colours, but sometime...”
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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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