Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a pygmy owl.
We begin by marking the size and then sketching an oval.
That´s for the body and then another smaller one, for the head.
We make across as guidelines and on this we make the big eyes
and on the vertical one, the beak.
The pupils go black, and then we draw the wings
and a branch were he is standing on.
And the little paws… and the tail.
With the eraser we can clean up the drawing.
Ok good! When the sketch is done we get the paper wet.
But just the background, not the branch or the owl.
We start with a big and browed brush and then we turn into a little one
to cut into a small spaces.
Oops, the tail needs to be dry.
Ok, now we paint with green on the wet paper.
I apply different tonalities of it, like this…
Like in dots or areas
because I want to make it seem like foliage, in the background.
Once the paper and the paint totally dries, I get it wet again
this time, all of it.
And I may scrub the boarders of the owl and branch to remove
any hard edges left from the paint.
And then I apply tiny amounts of blue to the white spaces I left.
And we paint the color of the iris, of the eye.
By the way, in a little bit in this video, I will show you some of the fan art
uploaded to the Fine Art-Tips App.
I love seeing the drawings and paintings that you upload, and I hope you enjoy it.
I give a light base tone to the owl and while that is wet, we can apply some
feathers, and get a smooth soft effect.
We paint the shadow that the feathers of the head create.
And then begin some of the feathers of the head, and let´s go ahead, and paint
the pupils black.
To have the darkest value, to be able to gage the rest, and when doing
the feathers, remember that in watercolor we first do what is light, and then we come
on to darker and darker.
Because it is not easy to go backwards.
Ok, let´s open the Fine Art-Tips mobile App and see some
of your drawings.
In the "Fan Art" section we go to the most Liked, in the past
30 days tab. And the first one is a beautiful chrome ball,
by artist Noah Hardy, as he credits, that´s actually a project from my book.
Very good!
The next one is a very nice portratit of Di Caprio…
by artist Eddie Bruce.
The next one is a painting with watercolor, acrylic and color pencils, by artist
Helen Kirkham.
Nice!
And the last one for today, is an other beautiful portrait by Eddie Bruce,
this time of Morgan Freeman.
Congratulations to all of them! and thank you to all the artists
who uploaded their work to the Fine Art-Tips mobile App.
All right, and we paint some of the darker feathers….
with a fine brush.
Very good.
To pull some highlights, you can use a knife, that´s an Xacto knife and
making some lines, I can draw some whites of the tips of the feathers.
To do this make sure you have good thick paper.
The last touches and it´s ready!
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And I will see you on Tuesday :)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo