How To Paint a Realistic Raccoon in Watercolor | Paint Fur!

This Raccoon is an excellent project if you really want to learn how to paint long fur!  There is certainly plenty of it.  It is also a good project for really capturing the life within the eyes as the lovely raccoon is looking straight at us.

We will go through various watercolour techniques such as a wet in wet blurry background and working with varied colour washes.  We will also work on painting those realistic eyes.  I will give you a full explanation on how to paint fur.  You will need to use directional brush strokes to create the shape and form.  Finally, we will be using watercolour white and painting the detailed bark!

With this video there is a lot to go through and a lot I can help you learn.  Fast track yourself to knowing how to paint wildlife in watercolour.  Let me help you avoid all the mistakes I have made over my 40 years of painting!

Paul :-)

This is the first part of this Raccoon watercolor painting lesson. Here we will make a start by drawing out, adding the background and painting the eye!

You will be able to practise wet in wet washes by applying them in a way to keep it all 'wet' whilst working on the background, and create the life within the eyes by using my layering technique.

Have fun and please let me know how you get on,

Paul :-)

Part 2 of this lovely raccoon! In this section we will start to add those much-needed foundation washes, in preparation for the details later.

Let me know how you are doing so far, and do contact me if anything is a bit too tricky or not explained enough?

Have fun,

Paul

In Part 3 of this tutorial we will really start to add and build on those lovely details, let's get stuck in!

How are you doing so far?

Paul :-)

We are now at Part 4 of this lovely Raccoon watercolor lesson.  In this section we will get most of the detail work on the fur completed.

How's it going so far, I would love to know.

Have fun,

Paul :-)

This is the last part of the lovely Raccoon watercolor lesson. In Part 5 we complete all the detail in the fur, add the watercolour white highlights and finally paint the wood.

I really hope you enjoyed this one. Let me see your lovely paintings and please leave feedback be it good ......... or bad. You have to remember that if there is something you are not happy about I need to know, I can't try to fix something unless I am aware of it in the first place. :-)

So your comments are vital to me.

Thank you for your support and let's see what we can paint next!

Paul :-)