TOUCAN – Paint Realistic Watercolour and BIRDS

TOUCAN – Paint Realistic Watercolour and BIRDS explores an extraordinary bird subject, covering all the colours in the rainbow I am sure! A larger subject this time, the toucan is a striking bird, known all around the world for its uniqueness, beauty and outrageous colour, so what better subject to capture together than this? Its an essential addition to my series of bird painting tutorials and I am very excited to share it with you here.

This course walks you through the painting process, end to end, helping you to create your very own toucan painting in watercolour. Often associated with soft, loose and flimsy colours, this certainly will not be the case here! In this course we will create vibrant, precise, intense colours, with our watercolour, just as it is in life. Painting in a realistic style, we will learn about more about our materials, colour, applying large, the all important element of timing, pigment rich layers of wash, and the painting techniques and approaches needed to build, refine and achieve a realistic outcome. Certainly youll learn a lot along the way trying and thats the main goal.

Our toucan is a fantastic painting subject because it is fun, unique and comes with a complex patchwork of crazy beautiful colours to capture… and theres plenty to learn. Whilst this kind of subject can be overwhelming, especially if youre learning, youre in good hands here. I will show you how we can deconstruct a complex subject, breaking it down into simple manageable steps, single or simple colour use and approaches to reconstruct our painting to completion. Its not all easy, but a huge part of the joy in this work is the learning, conquering the challenges, and play, so put any uncertainty aside and walk with me through the process, one step at a time and lest see what you can do!

This course is graded as a Level 3 exercise, or colour coded RED course, as it includes a fair amount of complexity within the subject, but dont fear! My courses are designed for students of all levels, set to expand your learning around bird painting and watercolour even more, so dont confuse this with being ‘too hard’ at all. Its an ideal painting exercise to grow your knowledge, whilst having fun with this beautiful new bird focus so if you love the subject and want to get playing with large areas of wash, gorgeous, diverse and intense colour, rich tone and beautiful texture, this is the course for you!

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.

Crossing another of my monthly Patreon Painting Lesson over to my Udemy offerings, 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 already seen some wonderful paintings emerging from this course over on Patreon and I have every confidence, and have seen it many many times, how the results surprise my students. 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. I shall see you in the wash! Heidi

I’d like to send a huge thank you on behalf of us all to Corey Raffel for generously allowing us to work from his stunning ‘Toucan’ image. Without this gift, wed be so much poorer! Thank you so much, we love our Toucan

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