Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
Flying with Monochrome 1
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook
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About the video: Flying with Monochrome 1
Overview
“We’ll start to introduce tone to our paintings and look at how we can create dramatic contrast with the simplicity of a single colour.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Flying with Monochrome 1, 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
“Flying With Monochrome In this lesson, we'll continue to work with a single colour, but using one colour, explore the ways that you can create real depth in your painting by creating lighter areas and darker areas, which is also known as tone or value. I'm gonna use a single colour here, which is a turquoise colour, to show you the difference. I'm not adding much water at all. I'll add so much water that it's mostly water with only a tiny bit of paint. It's a much lighter version of the same colour. You can create a whole spectrum of different tonal values using one colour. I'm gonna start ...”
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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 Laura McKendry
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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