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How to Paint a Realistic Robin Bird in Watercolour

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Overview

Learn to paint wildlife in watercolor!

What you'll learn:
  • In this video I will guide you from start to finish on how to paint this delightful Robin in watercolour.
  • I will teach you a variety of techniques, foundation washes, detailed layers, blending, adding life to the painting, mixing colour, painting detailed feet,
  • how to paint wood, wet in wet, dry brush, fine detail brush work, layering of washes, using watercolour white paint, and much, much more!
  • Learn to paint feathers in detail

  • · In this video, I will guide you from start to finish on how to paint this delightful Robin in watercolour.

    I will teach you a variety of techniques from, foundation washes, detailed layers, blending, adding life to the painting

    · considering form, mixing colours, painting detailed legs and feet, wood and much, much more!

    · Robins are such lovely birds to paint, they are not just cute to look at, but they also give us many challenges along the way. For example, how do we create the whiteness of the chest, but still maintain the deep, darker background colours behind those feathers?
    Plus, we need to consider the layering of the feathers as well, how does one section overlap another? This is worked out by carefully looking at the contrasting colours, and how these colours are applied in various layers.
    Don't worry, I will show you how I do this during the painting process.

    The eye is the ‘life’ of the bird, so we need to spend some careful painting time working on this area. We do this using carefully place wet in wet colour washes, adding tiny details to build up the iris, pop in the pupil, and then add that highlight of life!

    So have a go at this delightful Robin and let's get those brushes wet!
    Paul :-)

Taught by

Paul Hopkinson

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