Watercolor Painting Class - Bald Eagle

Work with fine details, layered looking paint feathers, realistic eyes, use watercolour white + and many more techniques

Ratings 5.00 / 5.00

What You Will 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

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 ?