Jean Haines | (Runtime 100 min)
Learn how to paint animals full of character in watercolor with Jean Haines! Jean begins with a review of her favorite watercolor materials before demonstrating how to choose an exciting and inspiring subject, an animal you will truly enjoy painting. Next, follow along with a warm-up exercise designed to teach you how to paint eyes full of light and life. You’ll learn how to keep accurate proportions without a drawing to guide you as you practice a study of a cat. Finally, you’ll put all of Jean’s techniques together to paint a lovely portrait of a dog from start to finish. With these easy methods, you’ll enjoy painting animals from pets to exotic creatures for years to come!
Follow Jean’s step-by-step instruction to achieve a complete understanding of painting animals! You’ll learn:
- Tips for painting tricky or dully colored animals, such as black, white, and gray
- Techniques on how to capture the personality of pets and wildlife
- Lessons on brushstrokes, color mixing, manipulating water, and observation
- How to paint popular animal features including eyes, noses, ears, and fur
Preview Watercolor Animals with Jean Haines here now to discover how to bring emotion into your work, add highlights to an eye, and block in features!
Watercolor Animals
MATERIALS
Surface
- Watercolor paper (cold-pressed, 300 lb.)
Paints (Jean Haines' Daniel Smith Palette)
- Cascade Green
- Undersea Green
- Phthalo Green
- Jadeite Genuine
- Quinacridone Fuchsia
- Quinacridone Rose
- Quinacridone Burnt Orange
- Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet
- Ultramarine Turquoise
- Lunar blue
- Cobalt Teal Blue
- Moonglow
- Transparent Pyrrol Orange
- Hansa Yellow Medium
- Indian Yellow
- Quinacridone Gold
- Amethyst Genuine
- Quinacridone Magenta
Brushes (variety of sizes)
- Kolinsky Sable Watercolour Brushes (size 10, 12, & rigger)
- Jean Haines' Squirrel Blend Wash Brush
Other
- Palette, radial tray
- Gouache
- Water & water container
- Toothbrush
- Paper towel
- Reference photo(s)
- Table easel
- Painting rag (to catch running water from the easel)
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