The You Factor: Powerful, Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor with Donna Zagotta
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The You Factor: Powerful, Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor with Donna Zagotta
Discover the most interesting elements from your source material as you mold shapes and relationships to fit your unique vision. Donna Zagotta’s inquisitive approach to design helps you create powerful compositions that say as much about you as they do about your subjects. In this DVD workshop, Zagotta breaks her process into manageable steps and approaches design challenges one at a time. With her design firmly established, she is free to focus on her extended painting process. She concentrates on setting up color relationships and establishing a light pattern. Zagotta mixes an extensive watercolor palette with white gouache. The opaque paints free her to make corrections and solve design problems at any moment and achieve a complex layered effect. Donna develops color, shape, and value relationships until the painting passes her ultimate test: you know it’s right when you love it!
01m 31s
2. Lightening Watercolor
05m 12s
3. Gouache Techniques
00m 47s
5. Information Gathering Drawing
00m 52s
7. Contour Drawing
00m 34s
9. Finding Shapes
03m 29s
10. Massing by Value
01m 34s
11. Sunlight Massing
03m 00s
12. Arbitrary Massing
02m 37s
16. Cool Underpainting
02m 18s
17. Warm Underpainting
17m 13s
18. First Relationships
07m 34s
19. Dispersing Color
01m 40s
21. The Light Pattern
09m 08s
22. Dark Patterns
04m 16s
23. Jacket Relationship
12m 55s
25. Eliminating Whites
07m 35s
27. Tying It All Together
08m 16s
29. Beginning Detail
08m 23s
30. Final Details
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About The Artist:
Donna Zagotta

Active professionally for more than 20 years, Donna Zagotta is a nationally recognized artist, teacher, and juror. She has accumulated numerous awards including the first place awards in the 2005 Arizona Watercolor Association Exhibition and the 1997 Watercolor West Exhibition. Zagotta is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and Midwest Watercolor Society. Zagotta's artwork appears in numerous publications and can be seen on the cover of Watercolor Expressions and The Artist’s Magazine. She was selected as Watercolor Magic Yearbook 2001’s “Ones to Watch,” and she was featured in Watermedia Focus magazine as “An Artist Worth Noting.”
Donna Zagotta has been teaching classes and workshops since 1990, and she served as one of the jurors...
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