Expressive Animal Portraits in Watercolor
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Bring the animal kingdom to life through captivating artwork by exploring a wide variety of watercolor techniques
Watercolors give you the opportunity to paint with expressiveness, color, and storytelling. For artist Sarah Stokes, watercolor painting is also a meditative practice. She specializes in wildlife art and has had her work displayed in galleries around the world.
In this course, Sarah takes you through the steps you need to create enchanting portraits of animals that highlight the beauty of the world around us. Follow your intuition and elevate your watercolor skills with a range of different techniques.
Get to know Sarah and find out how her family inspired her to become a professional artist. She shares where she finds her inspirations for drawing and painting, as well as how her artistic style has evolved over the years, and what you can expect from the course.
Familiarize yourself with the materials used to create professional-looking watercolor portraits. Explore the importance of tone, how to build layers with watercolor, and how different brands and pigments vary in quality and application. Then, learn how to use black paint to paint a white horse.
Experiment with painting different animals and subjects to practice your watercolor skills. Learn to merge colors on paper by painting a cat, interpret complex patterns with a fox, and mix colors by illustrating an eye. Finally, discover the techniques to paint finer areas like fur and antlers using texture and shadow.
Now it’s time to look at more complex pieces that incorporate both loose and detailed brushwork. Complete the painting of a stag from earlier in the course using layering, splashing, and wet into wet techniques. Once dry, Sarah demonstrates how to make your paper look handmade.
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