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Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners

Taking Your Paintbrush for a Walk

A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator

Artist and Illustrator. London, United Kingdom.
Joined March 2020

Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook

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About the video: Taking Your Paintbrush for a Walk

Overview

“Painting with a single line, we’re going to use our brush to explore a collection of objects - and discover playful ways of working in our sketchbooks!”

In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Taking Your Paintbrush for a Walk, 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

“Taking Your Paintbrush for a Walk Now we've familiarised ourselves with our brushes, we're gonna start to paint. For this lesson, I'm gonna paint a collection of objects that I found in my house. I'd like you to gather a collection that you might have at home. You might collect things, you might be a collector of something. But even if you haven't got a formal collection, you'll be able to find an arrangement of objects for this exercise. You could open your drawer and paint everything that's in it. You could go around your house and find loads of objects that are blue or loads of objects t...”

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Course summary for: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (2069)
  • 79362 students
  • 5 units
  • 23 lessons (5h 25m)
  • 9 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Laura McKendry

A course by Laura McKendry

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Artist and Illustrator

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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Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners. Illustration course by Laura McKendry Best seller

Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners

A course by Laura McKendry
Artist and Illustrator. London, United Kingdom.
Joined March 2020
  • 100% positive reviews (2.1K)
  • 79362 students