Materials you will need

Materials you will need

For this course you will need:

  • Sheets of watercolour paper – at least 140lb Not/Cold pressed surface. Please use good quality paper, as it will repay you thrice over.

  • Watercolour paint - a good basic selection of a warm and cool primaries (yellow, red, blue), plus Burnt Sienna or Burnt Umber. I prefer and use tube colour, but if you have pans, that is not a problem. I encourage you to swap colours around, so if you do not have the colours I am using that is no problem and will make the painting more individual

  • A large round brush 16 and a medium round size 8/10, a rigger size 2, a small flat brush is good for lifting colour and correcting mistakes

  • Salt, cling film/Sarin wrap if required

  • scrap paper for planning, old paintings to use the backs of....

  • Hairdryer (to aid drying)

  • Two pots of water

  • Pencil and eraser

  • Water spray bottle, kitchen towel

  • print outs of reference material supplied 

  • Enthusiasm and the desire to learn!


Painting animals in watercolour

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Introduction

  • Materials you will need12
  • Introduction14
  • Final project image4

Getting up to speed

  • Techniques5
  • Hare silhouette6
  • Hare 2 silhouette2
  • Example sheet of basic techniques2

Exploring tone

  • Tone7
  • Swatch4
  • Swatch - B/w3
  • Swatch 2

Exciting effects

  • Textures16
  • Example sheet of textures and special effects8

Growing a wash: Painting feathers

  • Feathers9
  • Pigeon feather5
  • Example sheet of two colours painted wet up to wet

Painting shapes not things

  • Shapes7
  • Animals4

Eyes

  • Introduction
  • Simple2
  • Larger - with no visible pupil
  • Complex with pupil4
  • Eyes 1.pdf
  • Eyes 2.pdf

Features - fur, feathers and feet

  • Features

Final project

  • Final project - planning8
  • Final project - starting with the eye18
  • Final paining - the second eye, ear and nose6
  • Final project - the background
  • Final project - final adjustments2
  • Final project - a confession10
  • Donkey image
  • Donkey image 23
  • Thumbnail sketch3
  • Colour swatch2
  • First donkey2
  • Second donkey6