Lively & expressive portrait in watercolour. The channel has been a bit quiet, but there is plenty more to come I promise!! This little watercolour video is just to keep the ball rolling until June time... Another little video to keep that ball rolling as the channel as been quiet...but there's big pans moving forward for the rest of the year! Online Watercolour School https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school Full length Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66432805 Masterclass Series https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series MATERIALS - Baohong Watercolour Paper A3 block - Winsor & Newton Medium Size Quill Brush - faux squirrel - Jackson’s Raven Mop, Size 0 - faux squirrel - Winsor & Newton Rounds, size 8 & 10 - faux sable COLOURS - French Ultramarine - Prussian Blue - Quinacridone Red - Pyrrole Red - Indian Yellow - Quinacridone Deep Gold (Daniel Smith) - Permanent Yellow Orange by Holbein - Lavender )Opaque colour by Holbein) Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

Fun and fresh still life in watercolour. The channel has been a bit quiet, but there is plenty more to come I promise!! This little watercolour video is just to keep the ball rolling until June time... Masterclass Series https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series Online Watercolour School https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school MATERIALS - Baohong Watercolour Paper A3 block - Winsor & Newton Medium Size Quill Brush - faux squirrel - Jackson’s Raven Mop, Size 0 - faux squirrel - Winsor & Newton Rounds, size 8 & 10 - faux sable COLOURS - French Ultramarine - Prussian Blue - Quinacridone Red - Pyrole Red - Aureolin Yellow (any bright yellow) - Permanent Yellow Orange by Holbein Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

As watercolourists we are generally working from lighter tonal values down to darker ones. Therefore learning to paint shadows is very important. This video is firstly about looking for large shadow areas. These are a great way to simplify a painting and also to help it "hold together"; and using a simple thought process of - light - medium shadow, deep shadow, can really help tackle even complex subjects. This owl for example; it would be very easy to get distracted and caught up in the markings, which are beautiful; but by focusing on painting shadows, and large shapes we can hint at the markings but not get lost! _______________________________________________ Longer Format Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tawny-owl-in-63877637 FREE ZOOM DEMO signup; https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series ________________________________________________ MATERIALS: - Baohong Watercolour Paper Half sheet - approx. 16" x 22" - Escoda Ultimo - Faux Squirrel Mop, size 18 - Winsor & Newton Medium Size Quill Brush - faux squirrel - Jackson’s Raven Mop, Size 0 - faux squirrel - Winsor & Newton Rounds, size * & 10 - faux sable COLOURS - Ultramarine Blue (Cobalt) - Prussian Blue (Pthalo, Indanthrone) - Quinacridone Red (Alizarin Crimson, Rose Madder, Carmine) - Yellow Ochre (any warm or transparent yellow) - Quinacridone Deep Gold (Burnt Sienna) - Lavender by Holbein (opaque white mixed with blue) Join me for the Watercolour MASTERCLASS series: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series See what's coming with the Online Watercolour SCHOOL: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school Visit my existing Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt ____________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

In this tutorial I explore a very simple way of approaching a colourful watercolour bird. Even with what appears to be a more complex subject like this Bee-Eater Bird, we can still use a very straightforward and simple process to easily create fun and simple little watercolours. Whilst there are plenty of slightly more advanced techniques and approaches here, I do feel like that this tutorial does show a nice simple watercolour process that would suit beginners. I hope you enjoy this one and have fun with it if you give it a go. FREE ZOOM DEMO signup: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series See what's coming with the Online Watercolour SCHOOL: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school ________________________________________________ Join me for the Watercolour MASTERCLASS series: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series Visit my existing Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt ____________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ____________________________ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:00 Online School 2:07 Tutorial 32:41 Outro ______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

How can we loosen up our watercolour painting? So many people are chasing this, and understandably so, but first we need to pin down what it means. For me it is a watercolour with that more painterly feeling born out of brush marks and patches of paint which unite to give the impression of our subject. Whilst painting more freely and loosely seems to come with time, practice and confidence, it is also largely born out of how we look at and analyse our subject, and in turn how we interpret that into our painting. It is this which I talk about in this video; and for me it is about learning to see our subject has having one large shape which anchors the painting and brings it together, maybe a few medium size shapes too. These simple larger shapes hold the piece together and give us the freedom to loosen up elsewhere and really throw the paint around. FREE ZOOM DEMO signup: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series Full length, real-time version of the painting: https://www.patreon.com/posts/flying-quetzal-62589587 _______________________________________________ Rachel's Studio Watercolour Channel & Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3b8RIuZn-2C7S2t-Q7YaoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4NZJFs8vA&lc=UgzH0JHjQIeiWblAPI54AaABAg.9Yd3680jl879YkdNwYhygO ________________________________________________ Join me for the Watercolour MASTERCLASS series: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series See what's coming with the Online Watercolour SCHOOL: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school Visit my existing Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt ____________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ____________________________ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:19 Episode Intro 3:32 Thank you 4:44 Theory 9:09 Free Demo Invite 10:04 Practical Application - Painting 15:14 Summary 18:35 Outro ______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

A sneak peek into some of the concepts we will be covering in far more detail in the upcoming Watercolour MASTERCLASS series: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series Learning to look for simple shapes within our subjects is a great start. Equally straightforward is learning to split them into a simple light & shadow side. The next stage is to keep this light side, or light family of tonal values, notable separate from our shadow family of tonal values. Watercolour tends to lend itself well this way of looking at things as we can use an initial light, watery wash to create lots of lovely lights and halftones, them come in and look for simple shadows which we keep closer together in tone. Of course this is easy with a high contrast subject but is equally useable in more subtle lighting settings and can be used to easily look at, analyse, interpret and paint literally any subject! ___________________________ Join me for the Watercolour MASTERCLASS series: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolour-masterclass-series See what's coming with the Online Watercolour SCHOOL: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school Visit my existing Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt ____________________________ Materials 9" x 12" Canson, Moulin Du Roy, Cotton Watercolour Paper Size 0 Mop - Jackson's Raven Size 10 Round - ProArte Prolene Colours: - Cobalt Blue - Pthalo Blue - Quinacridone Red - Permanent Red - New Gamboge Yellow - Permanent Yellow Orange - Verditer Blue ______________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ____________________________ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:27 Theory 5:44 Painting 15:10 Conclusion & Outro _______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

Wet in wet painting with watercolour is is possibly the technique which the medium is best known for! It is easy to understand why as the effects, colours and look of the paint it produce are just wonderful, and you really can let the watercolour juts do its thing! As with all watercolour painting, a little knowledge and a few tricks and tips go along way. In this quick watercolour bird episode I paint a Bateleur Eagle. It is a great opportunity to look at creating contrast of softer and more flowing wet into wet areas with more refined and sharper detailed areas. The body and the feathers of the eagle are the perfect place to explore the wet into wet watercolour technique. Understanding the role of paint consistency os the absolute key to getting to grips with wet into wet painting. We need to first be aware of what level of wetness or dryness the wash on the page is at. Secondly we need to get a feel for the consistency of paint in the brush - how much pigment and how much water. Understanding the watercolour is so helpful for this. I go deeper into this idea in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spfpfhqCuY I hope you enjoy watching this watercolour painting as much as enjoyed painting. Most of all with wet into wet watercolours...have fun with it!! _________________________ Materials: - Baohong Watercolour Paper, A4 gummed block - Winsor & Newton Round, size 8. Synthetic sable - Jackson’s Raven Mop, size 0 Colours: - Prussian Blue (Holbein) - Ultramarine Blue Light - Quinacridone Red (Holbein) - Permanent Red or Pyrole Red - New Gamboge Yellow ______________________________ https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt Upcoming Zoom Demos https://www.tomshepherdart.com/zoom-painting-demos Water Wildlife Course Online https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolourwildlife-zoomcourse Online Watercolour School https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school _________________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ____________________________ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:30 Drawing 3:24 Materials 5:22 Face Block in 12:40 Body - Wet into Wet 26:00 Face Finish and details 35:59 Outro _______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

In this Quick Watercolour Bird Tutorial I will show you an easy technique for watercolour painting. We will cover a wider range of principles in this tutorial but I think the two main takeaways are: NUMBER 1 Using a simple watercolour process split into 3 stages. This can be applied to the painting as a whole, as well as individual parts. This process involves thinking in 3 stages of tonal values, and tied in with that the different paint consistencies. Firstly the light family; to include whites of the page, highlights, and lots of lovely flowing halftones (nothing too dark). In this case we let lights dry before coming back in with the slightly creamier consistency of paint for the medium or gentle shadows. As these dry we get progressively darker (more pigment and less water) towards the deep shadows and dark accents (double cream paint consistency and thicker) This isn't really a formula but rather a simple process that can be tweaked, tailored and then applied to different areas. NUMBER 2 This is the use of a simple 3 primaries palette to mix subdued colours, or as I like to call them "coloured greys" When we have a colour and then mix the opposing or complimentary colour into it. We pull that colour closer to the centre of the colour wheel and it gets more subdued, or greyed down, as we go. If we want to create a subdued steely blue as in the case of this Peregrine Flacon, then we take the blue and want to add its complimentary, orange. We don't have orange, but we do have red and yellow which make orange. So we can simply add red and yellow in small amounts to the blue to subdue (by bringing closer into the centre of the colour wheel) When we understand this we realise we can create a huge myriad of wonderful subdued and coloured greys simply by learning to balance all the primaries. I hope you enjoy this Quick Watercolour Bird Tutorial. _________________________ Materials: - Baohong Watercolour Paper, A4 gummed block - Winsor & Newton Round, size 8. Synthetic sable - Jackson’s Raven Mop, size 0 Colours: - Prussian Blue (Holbein) - Quinacridone Red (Holbein) - Aureolin Yellow (Daniel Smith) ______________________________ https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt Upcoming Zoom Demos https://www.tomshepherdart.com/zoom-painting-demos Water Wildlife Course Online https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolourwildlife-zoomcourse Online Watercolour School https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school _________________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives ____________________________ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:17 Drawing 4:40 Materials 5:07 Stage 1 - Body 12:16 Stage 1 - Beak & Eye 16:17 Stage 2 41:20 Eye 48:49 Outro _______________________________ ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some bird specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.

How do we tackle painting wildlife when the subject looks quite complex? In this realtime, full length watercolour painting tutorial I show you how focusing on painting simple patterns of light and shadow can allow you to tackle any subject. I talk you through the drawing, materials and a few other ideas before diving into the painting. As well as cheetah specific tips, I also cover watercolour paint consistency, tonal values, colour mixing and various other important elements and principles of watercolour painting. I hope you enjoy this one! The reference photo is taken from a photo subscription site. Whilst fine for painting reference use, the photo must not be shared or reproduced in any other form. ________________________________ Upcoming Zoom Demos https://www.tomshepherdart.com/zoom-painting-demos Water Wildlife Course Online https://www.tomshepherdart.com/watercolourwildlife-zoomcourse Online Watercolour School https://www.tomshepherdart.com/online-watercolour-school Support Conservation by buying artwork through https://www.artistsforpainteddogs.com/ _________________________________ Buy paintings: https://www.tomshepherdart.com/shop ---- Links to me ---- https://www.instagram.com/tomshepherdartist https://www.patreon.com/TomShepherdArt https://www.tomshepherdart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TomShepherdArt/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/creative-perspectives _________________________________ Time stamps 0:00 Intro 1:10 Drawing 2:50 Materials 4:50 Painting stage 1 9:30 Painting stage 2 36:40 Outro ---- Series Details ---- This easy to understand painting tutorial is designed for watercolorists of any ability or experience level. I try to cover some basic watercolour theory that applies to all subjects, as well as some wildlife specific tricks & tips to help you improve and progress your own watercolour paintings. I try to use a simple approach these watercolours as we are looking for great results but with freshness and excitement to the way we use the paint. These painting tutorials are designed mostly for watercolorists, with a mixture of theory as well as some how to painting guides. We cover lots of foundational principles to help students progress their painting.