Watercolor Tutorial: color palettes in botanical illustration [Video]

Botanical illustration techniques to create and apply color palettes to different types of illustrations with Ana Victoria Calderon

When creating color palettes with watercolor, one of the best options is to be inspired by nature itself. If we start from images taken from botanical photographs, we will find color palettes that perhaps we would not use on our own initiative in our illustrations. In this way, we can practice with different colors and discover new chromatic combinations.

Ana Victoria Calderon (@anavictoriana) teaches us how to extract the color palette from a floral photograph and replicate it using those same colors. Do you want to learn how to use the colors of nature? Pick a photo and let’s get to it.

1. Extract the color palette from the photograph.

The first step is to extract all the colors from the botanical photograph we have chosen. We will choose a margin of the canvas we are going to cover, or we will use …