Botanical Painting with Acrylic

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Lessons
19 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Lucila Dominguez

Nature is a great source of inspiration for the painter, illustrator and muralist Lucila Domínguez. She finds the muses in plants and flowers to create paintings of small and large-scale botanical motifs. Lucila explores species from different parts of the world to create unique and colorful compositions.

In this course you will learn how to make a poster-sized botanical illustration using acrylic paint. Lucila will teach you the basic techniques of drawing, painting and color with simple exercises that will help you to portray your favorite plants and flowers.

Description

Learn to create an illustrated composition of plants and flowers

The first thing you will do is to learn more about the work of Lucila Domínguez, who will also tell you about the artists she most admires and inspires.

Then you will create a moodboard, which will inspire you to always have at hand the plants you want to draw.

You will do some exercises to know the possible shapes of the leaves and flowers, and in this way you will try to imitate with the pencil the way in which they fall and their movement.

Later you will experiment with acrylic paint, you will let go with the brush and you will discover the different textures that this technique allows to obtain.

Lucila will give you some tips to master the theory of color and you will learn to create volumes with painting through the creation of light and shadow.

Once you have mastered all this, you will make your first composition. Lucila will show you how to create a grid that will be of great help when transferring your paper design to a larger support.

And finally you will apply the color.

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