Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Start with some tonal value theory to discover why it's so crucial to get them correct.
• Make your first bird drawing in graphite, paying attention to the dark, light, and mid-tones.
• Learn how warm and cool colours work together in a composition and how to make colour palettes with both saturated and desaturated colours.
• Look for appropriate photo references and work on them digitally to make them "paint-ready."
• To tell a tale with your composition, use practical elements like branch shapes, negative space, and colour.
• Finally, embellish your artwork with gel pens and paint splashes and drips to complete it.

Syllabus:

1.  Introduction

   • About Me

   • Influences

   • What We Will Do On the Course?
      

2.  Materials, Seeing Tone and Understanding Color

   • Materials

   • Tonal Values

   • Colour Theory 1

   • Colour Theory 2
      

3.  How Watercolor Works

   • Pigment Control and Basic Layering Techniques on Dry Paper

   • Wet Paper

   • Brush Strokes
      

4.  Preparing for Our Bird Painting

   • Obtain and Enhance Photo References

   • Compositions and Transferring

   • Colour Palettes
      

5.  Painting Our Birds

   • Painting Birds 1

   • Painting Birds 2

   • Painting a Loose Branch: Adding of Pen Work to Define Shape

   • Finishing Touches

   • More Ideas / Different Choices
      

6. Final Project

   • Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds