The Linel Set Carole Rampinetta
The Linel Set Carole Rampinetta
The Designer Set, designed with artist Carole Rampinetta, invites you to create colourful birds using Linel extra-fine gouache. An exercise in perspective and colour mixing.
This box contains six shades: Rex Blue, Ultramarine Violet, Pink Ochre, Persian Yellow, Ruby Red and Saint Michael Green. An ideal palette for creating colourful birds in the style of Carole Rampinetta. The Carole Rampinetta Linel Set
The material to start your work
Carole Rampinetta's step-by-step tutorial
Carole Rampinetta
A textile designer and pattern-maker trained in stage costume, Carole designs unique, colourful and poetic motifs, constantly drawing inspiration from travel, nature and the folklore of different countries around the world. Creative from an early age, with a passion for the theatre and circus arts, which she has practised since the age of 8, Carole loves telling stories and bringing emotions to life both on stage and with her pencils and brushes. A lover of paper, Carole works in the traditional way, using gouache, watercolour or ink.Carole Rampinetta's step-by-step tutorial
Her experience with Linel gouache
Carole "I discovered Lefranc-Bourgeois Linel gouache during my first year of applied arts studies, and I've been using these tubes ever since. As a long-time lover of colours, I was captivated by the power of the pigments, which allow me to work with deep hues. I enjoy playing with the velvety texture, using it straight from the tube or adding more or less water, as with watercolours. This medium has become an essential part of my creative process, as I always start my illustrations with Linel gouache: it's a real playground! Rex blue is present in the vast majority of my creations, so it's only natural that I offer it to you here, along with five other shades: pink ochre, ultramarine violet, Saint-Michel green, Persian yellow and ruby red. These bright colours make colourful birds dance across my pages, and I hope you will soon create your own ball with Linel gouache! One word: have fun!"
Step-by-step Set Designer
Step 1: Looking for inspiration
I look for inspiration in archive images, books, photographs from my travels or on Pinterest to capture the movements and proportions of the subjects I want to paint.
Step 2: First touches of paint
I paint directly onto my paper, forming ‘blobs’ of paint. I rarely draw sketches on my paper beforehand!
Step 3: Creating shapes
I create painting shapes that I embellish with details while trying to find the right proportions. A bit like a sculptor, you could say that I “sculpt” with paint! I often work in layers of colour that I superimpose, trying to create volume and movement. I paint very spontaneously.
Step 4: Rework your painting on the computer
Once I've finished all my gouache elements, I scan or take photos of them so that I can rework them on the computer. Then comes the more academic and less fun work: I “clean up” each file, unwrapping them, removing the “white from the sheet” to get all my elements separated on transparent backgrounds. This will allow me to superimpose them when I create my design.
Step 5: Duplicate designs
Off to Adobe Illustrator! I lay them out manually and create an ‘all-over’ connectable pattern, i.e. a file that can be repeated infinitely horizontally and vertically.
DID YOU KNOW?
The painter Henri Matisse, master and leader of Fauvism, adulated Linel extra-fine gouache. He never forgot to praise it in each of his interviews, and he also played an active part, in collaboration with the chemists and researchers Lefranc Bourgeois, in the creation of Linel fixed violet.
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