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Expressive Watercolor Birds: paint a Hummingbird without Pencil Sketch
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About Expressive Watercolor Birds: paint a Hummingbird without Pencil Sketch
Hummingbird Class Trailer
Materials
Simple Shapes Study
Basic Techniques
Colors
Loose Watercolor Background
Watercolor Hummingbird Body
Adding Wing, Eye and Beak to Hummingbird
Adding Watercolor Fuchsia Flowers
Watercolor Problem Solving with a Magic Sponge
Final Thoughts
What You Will Learn?
- Eager to level up your watercolor skills in loose style? Let´s paint a charming Hummingbird with Fuchsia flowers without preliminary pencil sketch, just directly on white paper. Do you find it challenging to paint without pencil sketch? Remove pencil sketch from your paintings and you will see how they will become more dynamic, vivid, full of life and energy of brush strokes. That is the beauty of painting in loose style..
- This class is for intermediate students, for taking this class you need to have already the basic knowledge of watercolor techniques. We are moving step by step from simple shape study and creating the guide map for our mind and then gradually we move to the white paper where the magic starts to happen! .
- If you have never painted birds in loose style, I highly recommend first to take Expressive Watercolor Birds: paint a Fairy Wren in loose style class, where the composition is not so complex..
- If you still do not feel confortable with loose style, but love painting birds, you can download a line work of a hummingbird from the Class Resources section and enjoy the watercolor part!.
- I am looking forward to seeing your Hummingbirds in the Class Project Gallery!.
- In this class I will use the following Supplies:.
- If you are looking to loosen up your style, it is highly recommended to watch first Wildflowers in Watercolors: Be Brave to paint with Water class .
- Will you accept the challenge to paint this charming watercolor Hummingbird? .
- Let´s get started!.
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- x Nina.
- Reference photos: Pixabay.