Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds

Overview

“During this lesson, I will introduce you to colour and all its qualities. We will look at how to see colour, make colour, and how to overcome complications caused by lighting and what our brain is trying to tell us! We will look at how colour can help balance our piece, add mood and depth as well as aid composition… and how every type of colour can play it’s part. Even the muddy ones! We will also examine the colour wheel and see how important it is to help us achieve the colour and look we want in our paintings. ”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Colour Theory 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds. Bring vivid wildlife compositions to life by exploring modern methods of watercolor painting.

Partial transcription of the video

“Color theory During this lesson we'll look at colour. How to see colour, how to make colour, and all the problems that can be caused either by lighting or by how our brain perceives colour. We're going to look at how important colour is to a painting. How it can aid composition. How it can add depth and balance to a piece. Every colour has its role to play, even the muddy ones. We'll also be looking at the colour wheel and how important it is to achieve the colour that we need to get in our paintings. Colour is defined in three different ways. Firstly is defined by its hue. That means how r...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds

• Level: Beginner
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• 58499 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (3h 14m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting