SPLENDID FAIRYWREN - Paint Realistic Watercolour and BIRDS
What you'll learn
- Learn how to illustrate a beautiful SPLENDID FAIRYWREN subject in WATERCOLOUR
- Learn about the painting techniques required to illustrate birds in watercolour
- Establish practical and effective strategies for your BIRD PAINTING practice
- Learning to work in textural layers
- Apply pigment rich WASH
- Explore more extensive DRY BRUSH techniques to create texture
- Create subtle colour shifts in your blue colour family
- Build knowledge and confidence and a love of this wonderful craft
Requirements
- This course is a Level 3 or RED course and although its for everyone, it is a little more involved
- Step right in and get painting! Everyone is welcome so let me walk you through the process
- An interest in bird illustration
- An interest in the watercolour medium
- An interest in realistic illustration and painting
Description
SPLENDID FAIRYWREN - Paint Realistic Watercolour and BIRDS explores a striking small bird subject in blue. Its small, its intricate, its exquisite and boy, it packs a punch for colour doesnt it! It would be impossible to create a series of bird illustration courses without including this stunning wren so Im excited to bring this lesson to you and to help you grow along your painting pursuits with such a fabulous exercise as this is.
This Splendid Fairywren is a subject that dives deeper into the watercolour medium and small bird painting in general, to expand on our learning even more. Its an ideal painting exercise to grow your knowledge, whilst having fun with this beautiful new, intensely coloured bird illustration challenge.
This course includes a fair amount of complexity in its tiny size. Our colour use within the blue colour family is fairly broader using combinations of colours in our tones, rather than single colours, and the size and number of elements brings its challenges too. But, these are all excellent challenges to jump into and explore for watercolour and bird illustration and shouldnt be confused with being 'too hard' at all. Theres just more to it with more to learn from it and thats wonderful.
This Splendid Wren course is for everyone, new to experienced, so if you love the subject and want to get playing with some gorgeous, intense colour, tone and texture, this is the course for you! I will be walking you through every step of the way, explaining the processes, colours and painting techniques to give you a fantastic, successful outcome. Certainly there is plenty to learn in this tutorial and that will help you grow across the board.
This Splendid Wren subject offers us plenty of learning in its pint size... and I adore working small for so many reasons anyway. Here we find a perfect opportunity to learn about pigment rich wash, creating intense colours through layering, developing texture with broad dry brushing approaches, about working in your blue colour family line, materials, painting techniques, managing your palette and ultimately, creating a beautiful wren painting for yourself.
An exacting craft, this work is especially suited to nature lovers, for those with an eye for detail, or for those wanting to develop it. If thats you, youre definitely in the right place. Whats most important is enjoying the process, learning a bunch and having fun creating. When you start there, youre already in the right place.
This course will offer you a taste of many of the essential ingredients in both bird illustration, and managing the watercolour medium more effectively. I have every confidence, and have seen it many many time, how the results surprise my students and I welcome you to join me here for the same... So let me guide you through this wonderful process in this course, from start to finish and see what we can create together.
Initially created as one of our monthly Patreon Painting Lessons, I am excited to offer this wonderful tutorial to you here on Udemy now too. With more to come, I am really looking forward to working with you... I shall see you in the wash! Heidi
Who this course is for:
- Any level of experience is fine for any of my courses. Its important that you choose what appeals to you as we learn best what we love best
- This course is a Level 3, RED or advanced course, but you can do it!
- Come one, come all. Its a course for anyone wanting to learn this craft
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
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- 21,537 Students
- 7 Courses
Heidi Willis ~ Renowned Natural History Artist, Botanical Illustrator and Watercolour Painting Tutor
Australian born, Heidi Willis is an entirely self-taught Natural History watercolour artist. Her work intricately illustrates our native and exotic plants, flowers, fruits and seed capsules, whilst her powerful & distinctive portraits of our spectacular bird life offers viewers an insight into the world as she experiences it. Painting full-time since 2003, Heidi quickly established herself as one of Australia’s emerging artistic talents. Her reputation as a leading natural history, wildlife and botanical artist is well established and her meticulous and intricate studies of botany and birds can be found in significant public and private collections around the world.
Heidi’s work has featured in prominent national and international exhibitions over her career. Highlights include The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize six times to date. The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious and richest art competitions held by the South Australian Natural History Museum. Several of her works have been showcased as a finalist at the Focus On Nature exhibitions, a leading international Natural History Art Prize held in the New York State Museum. Her work has also featured and won awards in both Botanica and The Margaret Flockton Award, hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Her work is held in the permanent collection at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation PA, USA and her work has also been included in the highly regarded Shirley Sherwood Collection. Her work has also been featured in several publications, most significantly Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, Craft Arts Magazine, Colophon, SA Life, International Artist Magazine (front cover), twice in Artist's Palette Magazine (front cover), twice in Australian Artist Magazine (front cover) and Australian Geographic Magazine multiple times over, with her work featured on the front cover of Artist’s Palette issue 123. Most recently, Heidi was taken on by Australian Geographic as a freelance botanical illustrator where her work features in the Nature Watch section of the magazine.
With her work in such demand and her watercolour masterclasses booked out over a year in advance, she has turned her focus to online teaching, face to face, on Patreon and here on Udemy in order to reach and help more people pursue and achieve their own watercolour goals.