Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a watercolor
of a bird.
We begin by sketching the rough shape, the outline of the head,
and the body.
It has a crown of feathers because it is a hoopoe bird.
It has a long beak...
First we can mark where it will end, and then we draw it.
Like this…
The feet down here, and let´s have him stand on a tree trunk.
These birds are very unique because of their crown of feathers,
and because of their nice singing.
Let´s refine the shape of the wings to get them a little bit better
and now with the kneaded eraser
I lighten up the graphite
before we apply the watercolor.
Now, we get the whole paper wet, with fresh water, and we spread it
to every part of it…
so that we can add the color.
First some blue, and then, orange.
As you see I apply by dabbing on the paper with the brush.
Over here, we will have the trunk
where the bird is standing.
Of course everything that I am doing right now
is going to be pretty smooth because with the paper wet
the paint runs a lot and then it will lighten up a bit.
Let´s add some more of blue, with a smaller brush, and I lift
some of the color from the bird
using a tissue paper.
Now we can apply some dripping of different colors.
Such as yellow and red to the background, to give more life to the painting.
We wait for the paper to dry, and then splatter some more paint
this time blue.
Since this time the paper is dry the paint will not run
Then we add some orange.
The colors that I am applying to the background are pretty much
the same ones that I will use for the bird.
We wait for all the paint to dry
and then we start painting it, with a fine brush.
I begin from the crown of feathers.
Like so.
I LOVE painting in watercolor!
It gives you so much freedom to create effects.
I painted the wing and now the beak, and the eye.
For these darker colors I used a mix of blue and black.
And I add some more drops by hand. That is because when you
apply the dripping, sometimes they don´t fall where you want them to.
[Laughter] But it doesn´t matter because you can complete it,
manually.
Let´s add some more color here to define it better, because
I think it was a little bit too lost.
It is ok that some areas of the bird get lost, but some others
should be define.
There is a red drop on the head that I don´t like, so I get the area
wet and then lightly rub with the brush.
And clean it with a tissue to erase it.
We soften some other spots, give it the last touches,
and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo