Watercolor Painting Class - Bald Eagle
What you'll learn
- How to paint this beautiful majestic Bald Eagle bird. I guide you step by step through a wide range of watercolour techniques.
- Learn how to paint a mottled wet in wet variegated backgrounds
- Masking fluid techniques and how to use it
- Work with layers of feathers using watercolour
- Paint a stunning realistic eye, beak and feet
- How to use the lifting off technique for extra detailing for the feathers
- Applying the wet in wet technique
- All about using watercolor white paint for the head feathers
- Step by step instruct on painting a three dimentional, realistic bird
- Work with tonal variations, working from dark to light and how to adjust to give a 3D form
Requirements
- A basic reasonable quality watercolour kit such as paints, watercolour white or white gouache, good watercolour paper, masking fluid, an old detail brush or cocktail stick for applying the masking fluid, waterpots, kitchen roll and brushes.
Description
Let me show you how to paint this majestic American Bald Eagle in watercolour. I will guide you through the complete process from start to finish, working on applying a faded background and a detailed eye. We will also paint a very strong looking beak, and finally we will work on all of those lovely feathers. This is a good tutorial for working in dark and light colours. Black and white paint - let me show you how I use both.
Painting birds is one of my specialities, so allow me to take your hand and carefully guide it along the way. I will show you how to at first paint a gentle mottled wash for the background, allowing the paint to blend on the paper, giving a lovely defused look.
Then we will begin painting the bird. This will be done in various layers, firstly a wet in wet foundational wash. This wash gives us a base to work on when we start to apply those lovely details.
Now the details, I love to work in layers, which as we know is the way watercolour is usually applied. With it being a transparent medium, it’s preferable to gradually darken those layers on detailed, stacking them up, but using directional strokes, considering the line thicknesses, colours and much more
So if you find this is the ideal video tutorial for you, then give it a go, I would love to see how you get on,
Paul ?
Who this course is for:
- Beginner and intermediate
- Watercolor learning course
- Learning to paint in watercolor using various techniques
- Learn how to paint wildlife in watercolor
- Watercolor Painting
- watercolour painting lessons
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 242 Reviews
- 7,683 Students
- 16 Courses
I started drawing when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, but didn’t pick up my first brush until the age of twelve. I ventured into the Derbyshire countryside with canvases and easels, and that is where it all began.
For many years I have undertaken watercolour, oil, acrylic and graphite commissions and have painted portraits, landscapes and animals.
I now paint as a full time artist and have over 40 years of experience. I love every minute of my work, though the time always seem to go too quickly when I paint.
I live in North Devon and spend many weekends out and about in the local countryside. So when I’m not painting wildlife, I like looking for and watching it in the natural environment.
When I am asked what would be my preferred subject, I would say without a doubt birds and animals. I love trying to get the life within the eyes in my finely detailed, realistic paintings.
My focus these days is on the teaching of my style and techniques and I do this through written PDFs, and teach on YouTube 'Devon Artist - Paul Hopkinson', Udemy, Patreon 'TheDevonArtist'.
I create and edit videos of my painting projects, these are building into a substantial back catalogue which you get complete access to as a member.
I really do feel that I have found my niche, I absolutely love teaching others and love even more to see the progress people make as they work on the projects. My paint brushes are still very rarely dry, I am still painting, but I also spend a lot of time video editing.
Keep those brushes wet,
Paul :-)