Learn to Paint Pets with Oil Paint - Pet Portrait Tutorial

In this lesson, you will learn what basic brushes, materials, and equipment you will need for Pet Portraits.

The PDF document is available in 'resources' in the first lecture.

Key Points:

- Choose whether you would like to use smooth or coarse  brushes

- Palettes and palette knives

- Prepping your canvas with Gesso

- The brush sizes and shapes that I use the most

- Oil painting mediums (Refined Linseed Oil, Liquin Original, and Odourless Solvent)

- How to wash your brushes

Please make sure to read the PDF document provided in the 'resources' section of the first lecture.

Key points covered:

- Things to observe in a reference photo before painting such as light source, shadows, and colours.

- Tones and Values

- Warm and Cool Tones

- Highlights, Mid-tones, and Shadows

- My most used colours that I would recommend everyone has in their collection

- How to lay out the colours on your palette

- How to use a palette knife to mix colours

This is the first lesson where we begin painting the pet, and in this lesson you will learn how to paint the pet's nose.

Key points from the lesson:

- Use a smaller brush, preferably a size 1 round brush.

- Work from your darkest colours to your lightest colours.

- Do not overload your brush wth paint, this will create blending issues. Use just enough paint to cover the surface of the canvas, and blend as you go.

- If you are struggling to blend the colours, use a bigger clean brush (such as a size 2 filbert brush) to blend out the colours.

- Don't forget to add highlights with a lighter colour paint. This will help make the pet's nose look wet and shiny.

In this lesson, I will show you real-time footage of painting the pet's eyes

Key points from the lesson:

- Use your smaller brushes.

- Work from your darkest colours to your lightest colours.

- Make sure to have subtle colour differences in your palette

- Do not overload your brush wth paint, this will create blending issues. Use just enough paint to cover the surface of the canvas, and blend as you go.

- Don't forget to add highlights with a lighter colour paint. This will help the pet's eyes to look glossy.

In this lesson, I will show you real-time footage of painting the pet's ears.

Please make sure to download the PDF document available in the first video's recourses tab.

Key points covered in this lesson:

- Use either a size 2 or size 4 filbert brush

- Work from your darkest to lightest colours, blending as you go

- Always paint in the direction of the grain of the fur

- Create fur texture by painting little strokes, and leave gaps between the darker strokes to paint the lighter colours later on.

- The length of the fur equals the length of the brush stroke (short fur = short strokes)

In this lesson, I will show you real-time footage of painting the pet's face.

Please make sure to download the PDF document available in the first video's recourses tab.

Key points covered in this lesson:

- Use either a size 2 or size 4 filbert brush

- Work from your darkest to lightest colours, blending as you go

- Always paint in the direction of the grain of the fur

- Create fur texture by painting little strokes, and leave gaps between the darker strokes to paint the lighter colours later on.

- The length of the furs equals the length of the brush stroke (short fur = short strokes / long fur = long strokes)

In this lesson, I will show you real-time footage of painting the pet's beard.

Please make sure to download the PDF document available in the first video's recourses tab.

Key points covered in this lesson:

- Use either a size 2 or size 4 filbert brush

- Work from your darkest to lightest colours, blending as you go

- Always paint in the direction of the grain of the fur

- Create fur texture by painting little strokes, and leave gaps between the darker strokes to paint the lighter colours later on.

- The length of the fur equals the length of the brush stroke (long strokes = long fur)

In this lesson, I will show you real-time footage of painting the pet's body.

Please make sure to download the PDF document available in the first video's recourses tab.

Key points covered in this lesson:

- Use either a size 2 or size 4 filbert brush

- Work from your darkest to lightest colours, blending as you go

- Always paint in the direction of the grain of the fur

- Create fur texture by painting little strokes, and leave gaps between the darker strokes to paint the lighter colours later on.

- The length of the fur equals the length of the brush stroke (long strokes = long fur)

This is the last video of the Pet Portrait tutorials!