Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
Dancing With Your Brushes
A course by user2352442 surname2352442 , Artist and Illustrator
Joined March 2020
Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook
Joined March 2020
About the video: Dancing With Your Brushes
Overview
“And now we will start to make marks! I’ll show you how to begin, how to familiarise yourself with your brushes and warm up your hands.”
In this video lesson user2352442 surname2352442 addresses the topic: Dancing With Your Brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners. Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“Dancing With Your Brushes Now, we'll start to explore the paints and the brushes and begin to make some marks in our book. The exercises and lessons in this course are designed to be short and achievable. In each lesson, you're gonna be creating a new page in your sketchbook. By the end of the course, you will have, hopefully, a whole sketchbook full of all the individual step-by-step exercises that you've done. Because of this approach, I'm gonna start working my sketchbook not starting on the first page, but I'm gonna open it at random and that's where I'm gonna start with this first exer...”
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Course summary for: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user2352442 surname2352442
Laura McKendry is an illustrator and artist based in London, UK, who is renowned for incorporating unusual tools and materials into her watercolor and ink-based pieces. Her work can be found on greeting cards, wrapping paper, homeware, and fine art prints for clients like Artko, Impress, Jaccart, Laura Ashley, Papyrus, WHSmith, and Waterstones.
Her book cover illustration for André Alexis’ novel Fifteen Dogs was nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards in 2016. She also teaches short courses on drawing and illustration at Central Saint Martins and the University of Arts London, and runs online workshops that focus on finding ways to unlock creativity while perfecting creative techniques.
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