Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
Colour Techniques: Create Your Greens
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors
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About the video: Colour Techniques: Create Your Greens
Overview
“In this lesson you will compose your own greens, a tricky color that is actually everything except green. We will create a small table of four by five boxes. • On the horizontal, we will use four different yellows: cadnium yellow deep, Naples yellow medium, primary yellow and green gold. • On the vertical, five kinds of blue: turquoise cobalt, cobalt blue, primary blue, faience blue (or ultramarine) and indigo. At the intersection in the boxes, you will mix the two pigments with half water dilution. I usually do not use too much pigment, I want the watercolor to be light to keep reading the linework. This will be an average, the color may change depending on the proportion of both pigments. It will then help you to get the closest color of the plant you are observing. ”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Colour Techniques: Create Your Greens, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach. Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors.
Partial transcription of the video
“Colour Techniques: Create Your Greens Now I will show you a few tips to create your own greens without using any green pigments. You might notice that in my watercolor box I have no green pigments and I create it with a mix of yellows and different blues, and that's what we will experiment right now. You can find many green pigments, but it would be, in a way, too easy to catch these green to paint the grass in green and your tree in green, or the succulents we will work on, or the tulip leaves, because it would create a kind of artificial green. I want you to look for all the variations th...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Lapin is an urban sketcher based in Barcelona, Spain. As a young boy, he remembers accompanying his father—an airplane technician—to his workplace to draw planes and imagine their stories. His three passions remain the same to this day: aviation, paleontology, and drawing.
In 18 years, he has filled over 200 sketchbooks, published 30 books, and was named the official air and space painter for the French Army in 2019. He’s a member of the Urban Sketching Community since 2008 and teaches Illustration Masters students at Elisava in Barcelona, as well as his own urban sketching workshops. His clients include the French Army, Air France, the City of Barcelona, Le Parisien Magazine, PlayStation, Heineken, Marks & Spencer, Aigle, Peugeot, Porsche, and Formula One.
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