SPLENDID FAIRYWREN – Paint Realistic Watercolour and BIRDS

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 

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