Painting horses in watercolour
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Introduction

Horse introduction
Materials required
Warm up exercise - silhouette

Horse silhouette
Materials required
Background example
Silhouette reference
Silhouette exercise
Silhouette duo example
Silhouette purple example
Silhouette alternative colours example
Warm up exercise - moving pigment

Horse - moving pigment
Materials required
Horses head silhouette reference
Profiles example
Moving paint tools - example sheet
An equine portrait - planning

Planning
Horse reference photo
Eye reference
Thumbnail
Horse alternative reference
An equine portrait - starting with the eye

Portrait - starting with the eye
Materials required
The eye starts to emerge
The rest of the face
An equine portrait - mane and body

Mane and body
Mane using cling film
Working back into the mane
An equine portrait - background

Portrait background
Painting the background
Painting around the nose
An equine portrait - second layer

Adjustments in the second layer
Colour sanding on the nose
Working on the mane
An equine portrait - finishing touches

Finishing up
Close up of sgraffito
The final painting

An equine portrait - planning

A few minutes planning your composition, the colours and order of working, will save you a lot of heartache. You might be desperate to paint, but 10 minutes planning is worth its weight in gold!

5 Lessons