Master class in watercolor: lessons for beginners

The art of drawing fascinates: from seemingly disjointed strokes suddenly begins to appear a picture that only the artist who paints it suggests. But we are not separated from artists by much: distance from hand to pencil or brush. In this master class on drawing with watercolor, we will learn to own a brush, let it not be at the level of Renaissance masters, but it is quite worthy. Here is a pheasant we will end up with.

Materials:

• Watercolor 36 colors ;
• Liquid watercolor;
• Synthetic brushes / columns / protein from No. 1 to 16;
• Paper;
• Pencils;
• Eraser;
• Palette;
• Tablet.

Progress:

For the sketch, a photo of the pheasant was taken. When we move on to the coloring, we will periodically return to the sketch.

On the palette we mix ocher, purple and golden paint. We begin to color the tone of our feathers. To highlight the dark parts, add more purple. Clean ocher pass the back, neck and flight feathers.

With the ultramarine we paint the tail of the tail. As with the back, we paint the darkened places with a purple color.

The next thing we do is grass, the main part of the landscape. For the grass, take ocher( golden and olive), orange cadmium and ceruleum. Under the pheasant we paint golden ocher, turning into olive. Before and above the pheasant, I put a stain with a ceruleum with olive ocher for grass of a distant plan. Over the tail of the pheasant we will work with the help of the same olive ocher.

Introduce orange cadmium, violet paint and burnt sienna. With their help, we draw a shadow under the bird and start writing down the tail behind the tail.

Underline the tuft.

On the head, breast and neck add a little bit of blue paint, and purple and ocher paint plumage.

Also add dark shadows to the feathers. We do everything step by step and not hurrying.

For stains, we need liquid watercolor. We take a bright blue and stain stains on feathers.

On the back we repeat the above process.

We emphasize the plumage near the spots of golden ocher.

We also plot the shadows over the far wing with a purple color.

Chromium oxide in a mixture with olive ocher emphasize the panicles of the grass( or flowers, if you want to depict them) and prescribe the shape of the nearest blades of grass.

I paint the grass under the pheasant with olive and violet paint.

We start to lay foliage, not forgetting about a whisker foreground - it is left untouched. For dark areas, add purple.

Adding shadows under the bird. Yellow paint pass through the grass of the foreground.

Adding shadows to the bushes.

We add shallow foliage to the background( above the back), add the grass in front of the pheasant with olive paint.

This concludes our work, as well as the portrait of the pheasant

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