How to paint a Pigeon using Watercolors - Step by step guidance.

1. How to paint a Pigeon using Watercolors : Hello and welcome to my Skillshare class on how to paint vision using watercolors. I'm challenged one, and I'll paste from India. You can check out my art works on my social media profile. I go by the handle watercolor. This is going to be a very simple class. I'm going to teach you to paint pigeon using watercolors. If you are someone who is intimidated by the idea of drawing, then don't worry, I'll show you some simple and easy ways of drawing. So even if you're a beginner, you can still draw and paint along with me. I'll explain all the required watercolor techniques that will be needed for this class. I'll also briefly about some colors and tonal values. Then I'll walk you through all the supplies that will be needed for the class. The class project will be painted in step-by-step manner with great care and instructions. So without any further delay, let us get started with the class 2. Art supplies : Hello, welcome back. I'm glad you decided to join my class. To begin with, let me walk you through all the art supplies that I'm going to use for the class. Let's talk about the colors. So this one is Payne's gray number 812 by white knight. I'm using this for the body and the head, the tail part. I'm using different tonal values of Payne's gray for different parts of the body. Next is born Tiana says by Magellan mission. Next to this as your blue 5.9 by white light. I'm using this for this part individually. Make started to be using this dioxide. Dioxazine purple 917 by Sennelier. This color is more like violet color. The next color is roseola. I'm using this for the wooden piece that we have in the building. I sometimes call it as raw umber, but this is raw sienna for this part. Makes this bond Dumbo, by art philosophy. We have cobalt blue. The purple colors for this part. Again, blue is also for this part as well. For the eye, we would need to orange. Again by White Knight. I'm using this orange. You could use any color on black. For black, I don't remember which color I have reached Brian. Black I have used. So yeah, these are the colors that I would be using for this class. You could use any similar brands that is already available with you. We don't have to use these colors. It's okay if the shades vary a little bit. Also, I forgot to mention one color which is viridian hue. You could use any alternative, cool green color. This is for the neck part. So all these colors are stored in this palette and it is easier to mix your as well. But in this class, I'm going to use a separate palette to mix the colors so that I can move it around wherever I want to make. About the brushes. I'll be using. This Princeton Neptune size six brush. It holds a good amount of water. So it is easier for washers and for applying larger strokes of colors. Then I have size 12, silver black velvet. 3,000 is down CVs. So this again is still larger brush than I have saved eight for medium to thinner strokes. So I use a size two round brush for some fine liner detailing work. I would also use water mist sprayer to wet the paper just in case. And a benzyl and it is or you could also use a kneading. It is all for wiping or removing the darker pencil lines. Anything that works for you. Then we would need some tissue papers and some napkins for cleaning the brushes. And to lift some paints of the paper. We would need two jars of clean water. This has already become dirty. One that is for cleaning the dirty brushes and other job is to take the clean water whenever we have to do the washes. User, artist like this, where they can stick the paper on the site. Don't have to put on all the sides. Just this much is enough. Talking about the paper I'm using for 40 GSM to triplet paper. This is 100% cotton Indian paper. You could go in anything about 300 GSM, that will work fine. The measurement of this is 15 by 11 ". And we will be using the paper in vertical orientation. So these are the art supplies that I'll be using in the class. You can go with any alternative similar supplies that you already have. 3. Tonal value: Let us talk about the tonal value. So this is the darkest tone. If you apply a little water to it, it becomes slightly diluted. And then we have the mid tones. We will add more water to paint to get diluted colors. In watercolor medium. If we want to achieve lighter color or a very transparent effect, we add more water to the pigment, and those we achieve lighter or highlighted effect. Tonal values determines the depth of the painting. Can be used for shadows. This can be used for highlights. This one is for the transition. These middle tones are very important to have a smoother transition from darker to lighter tone. In our class project, I'll be using Payne's Gray in different tonal value to achieve lighter and darker effects in the painting. 4. Required Watercolor Techniques: In this tab though, I'll be explaining some basic and very important techniques required for this class. The two main techniques that would be required for this is wet on wet and dry on wet. Wet on wet is nothing about you apply the hard water and then you apply some paint. When I say red veins, you have already mixed some paints and that you will be applying on the paper. Now next is wet on dry. So you have wet layer. You will take very thicker paint and then you will apply it like this. This can be used for darker shadows and denser effects in the building. The paints could be even more. So when you combine these two, wet, wet on wet and dry on wet, Let's say we have a spirit draws locally. No. No. If you apply one single color to this, it is going to appear flat in appearance. In order to give some dimension to it. I'm going to use highlights and shadows in it. So first, I'll read the entire paper. This is a technique that we are going to use for painting the pigeon. Okay, I've read this paper. Now let's apply though. With paint. This is going to be wet on wet. Meaning I'm applying that you did paint here. And this will act as the highlighted part. The paint spread well, because of the redness on the paper. No. I'm going to use darker paints. This will dry on wet because I'm using dry and thicker paint. And add the shadow side. I'm painting those peer. It should have darker side as well as highlighted side. So let's add the highlighted side. So before that, you need to know the weight lifting technique where we lift the paints using damp brush to give a highlight. The light and shadow is determined by the direction of light that falls on the speared. Next, I dilute these darker color in the mid area to have midtone values. Also adding some darker color for the darker shadows should have a smooth transition from lighter to darker value. So here we have darker tone, then we have mid tones, lighter tone. This now appears like a spear. You can achieve similar effects in anything you bend by using darker and lighter values. Next, I tonal values are very important in watercolors or any other medium. So we will use this same technique here for adding the darker shadows and some lighter highlights. 5. Composition: So I'm going to be drawing this vision in my painting. This is the frame. You can skip the background part. And I'll draw this pigeon somewhere in the center. Then he already have this wooden area. So this is the composition. And I'm going to skip the background elements here, only focusing on the pigeon and the load part. This will be roughly painted. The retailer will be added here. I'm going to paint this in a semi realistic or semi loose, tight. Certain parts of the bird will be painted in a loose manner and some of the details will be added at the end. 6. Drawing - Warm up Exercises: Before we start our actual class project, I want you guys to do this little warm-up exercise. This will help us loosen up our creative muscles and make some movement just like how we wanted. So we'll start with very basic exercise, which is marking two dots and connecting them with straight line will replace the dots further apart. So this way or Huntsville freely move. Next, let us draw some circles. After this warm-up exercise, you will feel a sense of ease in drawing. Next, we will draw some squares and rectangles. Going back to the circuit, I'll be filling up the area here with circles. Next I'm going to draw some triangles. So these are some basic shapes that can be used for drawing complicated figures. With the help of circles, rectangle, triangle. We can simplify any given complicated shape. So let's say we want to draw a tree. So this is the shape. Now, I can first draw a triangular shape and then rectangle like this. And this spot in a square or rectangle shape, then I can further simplify it like this. Here. This is how easy it is to simplify the shapes using simple geometrical shapes. Similarly for drawing boards. By doing so, good, triangles can draw it very easily. You can take your own reference image and try to simplify the shapes that you want to draw. Now let's say we want to draw this board. Then I'm going to simplify the shape by bringing this oval shape. And then another circle here. A triangle angle. Honestly after know the angle between this. Then once you're comfortable with the overall skeleton, then you can easily refine the shape. And it is okay if it a little bit here and there, we are not looking for drawing. Perfect. Good job. Next, let us take this board so we can draw a circular shape, lightly. Rectangle here. Notice the angle. So this should be aligned ahead of this. Once yogurt endoskeleton, right, then you can make changes later on. You can make more such examples and practice on your own. 7. Sketching : Okay, so I have this pigeon here, and I'm going to draw it using simple shapes. Here. I'm just taping the paper on the sides and not on the entire paper. Alright, let's begin with the sketching part. So I'm forced draw an oval shape for the head. Doit very lightly. And then another vertical oval shape. We have triangles. Another category here, the beak of the bird is slightly inside. So I'm drawing this triangle here. The freeze. We were drawn. I'm here. If you absorb the beak is not aligned with the stomach but the stomach or just leave this precisely, by the way, excuse me for the confusion in the drawing, but I'm still learning how to draw in right proportions. I have always struggled to make good drawings. I love painting. That is where my passion is. This pidgin may not look exactly like the reference image, but I'll make sure that I'll make it look like vision at the end. That's my intention. I don't want my fear of failure stopped me from trying new things. So these days I've been trying new painting subjects. And I must say it really helped me gain some confidence in my drawing skills. Okay, So here I'll just note the angle. So it's somewhere like this. So I will just note that angle here. No, draw a rectangle. Then again, some straight rectangles. You can alter the shapes. For time being. We just want the skeleton. On the backside. We have data feed. You'll see how I'm struggling to draw this simple shape. But I think having these so tiny rectangles and circles helps us draw in somewhat decent proportions. So here I see that the head is comparatively smaller. You could even do the tracing on an off paper and then sketch it on to the actual paper. That is also one way of drawing your eye. I should be aligned with the beak. So it is this here. I'm going to draw the beak a little upper, aligning with the eye. So it is very important to draw using light handed so that you can erase or corrected later once you feel you're getting the proportions right. Next, I'll draw this wooden thing. We need our fleet. Now I do some detailing on the feet of this region. And highly panic as well. You can, I know the detail to feel one. So I'm not going to draw each and every detail here. So while painting, I'll try to capture the essence, like my shadows and the highlights part. Here, I'll just lightly mark the feathers. This darker area as well. So we're pretty much done with the sketching part. If you have not finished the drawing part, pause the video, take your time to complete the drawing. Will see you in the next chapter. 8. First layer : Now, first I'm going to mix the colors that I'm going to need. So we would need or Payne's gray mixing getting thicker consistency. I need some more cobalt blue. This is already violated. This from later. Okay? So first I'm going to apply clear water inside this. This is to perform wet on wet technique. This entire drawing video. Carefully apply water around the boundaries. I'm not applying any water inside the beak area. Why? Because it has this lighter color, so we will paint at the end. But for now, let's add water completely inside this body area. So if you'll notice, the lighter areas are the feather areas. And I don't go near. It has some darker green areas though, is again darker. So based on this, I'm going to apply the colors. Suppose title go with Payne's gray. You take my size two brush so that it is easier for me to spread the colors. And I don't want this neck area, I'm going to just apply some green color. So I've taken this is forest green color. Apply that color. And then we'll use purple around the chest area. Sorry, it is violet color. Purple. I don't know why I keep saying vocal, vocal for awhile. It the head of this pigeon is slightly darker, so I'm going to use midtone value. The backside feather part will remain lighter. Next, let us paint the tail part. So here I'm using slightly concentrated Payne's gray because as you'll see in the reference image, the tail is darker. I use my damp brush to spread the color and also to live the extra colors. Darker or thicker. Robbins green. I fly here. This will add a sense of dimension. I don't know, feathers. We need to have a slight hint of green color and on the neck. So I'm going to add some darker color, darker colors around. You're now moving to the tail part. I'll be using concentrated tone to define those I, those letters. Sense of shadow Adding this darker strip, that is then the reference image can take some Coburn added in the tail, but this will have a slight underdog in the darker areas. Next I'll take my fine liner or five. Size two brush, wipe off the water from the eye. But this is only possible. If you perform it before the paper dries. You could come on the back of your brush without issue. I don't paint. Ok, so this step has helped us at you wipe Israel for the normal while this is wet. I'm going to use Payne's gray and add some texture. The fire doors fuels oh, fine liner brush for tiny brush strokes. Also to add highlights, you can use your fine liner brush. I'm adding highlights and shadows are very essential part of any painting. Without the shadows and highlights we'll be ending is going to flag. So make sure you capture that in your beam. And you can lift off all the beans that has come outside. Also. If you have achieved any sharp edges, then you can solve it using a clean damp brush. The floor lift and blue dots like this. This is to ensure that the green color won't be very flashy and it will blend well with the background. To give some highlights. We're going to lift some paints from here. Always use a clean damp brush. If your brush has water in it, it will create background effect, which we do not want your listing some paint from the bottom to define the feathers. Gil some feathery texture. I'm doing the lifting job. Norway, and this is slightly damp. I'm going to take pick a color using concentrated Payne's gray here. I think these darker shadows while the paper is damp. I think we are almost done with the first layer. Once we are done with the first layer, we will let it dry naturally 9. Second layer & Final Details: So the paper looks dry. I had left it to naturally dry for about 05:10 minutes. Next, let us do the billing job. Start with the I. Here. I'll be using orange color. Next, let us move on to the beak of the bird. So I'm using Payne's gray. I leave some white gap and then apply this kinda. You could also use some black. So I don't want this lower part very dark. So I've lifted though being choosing tissue paper for the feet, going to be using color. Switching to my size eight, round brush. For the feet. This is the first layer. Once this dries, you can add another layer to add adept. Front of backside, I'll be using slightly darker, pink because of the shadows. Now take Payne's gray. This should be darker. To suggest though, brighter, I'm sorry, for shadow side of the pigeon, the underneath part. So adding those shadows will make the board FPR or more dimensional. Otherwise it is going to end up building flat. So to prevent that, we will add the darker shadows, which in turn will enhance the highlights of the board. I don't want to be doing a lot of detailing work. So I'm just going to add some suggestions she had ended. Oh, I'm adding some curved lines depicting the shadows. Here. I'm going to glide my brush against the paper, creating this darker textured effect. Big darker color, probably black. And draw a.in the I know to add some texture in the leg in the front of the board, I'm going to add some darker lines. You can make spin and some black to make it darker, pink No, I'm simply gliding my brush, creating this date actual audio brush should be done, should have very less pain. Next, I'll add some darker colors to enhance the facial features of this pigeon. Next, load some more Payne's gray and load your brush around this test area. This will add a sense of extra effect. Although this is optional step, you can skip it as well. Next, I'll be doing some minimal detailing on the feather part. So I have used black yard and simply I'm adding some loose strokes to enhance the shadows. I'm not trying to achieve any realistic effect here. As you can see, I'm applying some loose dress books. Doesn't have to be both act on a defined way. Next, let us move on to the beak Barb. I'm adding this black patch. Okay, So we're almost done painting the pigeon. Now, let's paint the wooden part. I'm going to paint this with very loose approach style. Where did that only when the entire area is wet. I'm going to add some brown color for the base wash. I'm using raw sienna and spread it well. On this red area. This is wet on wet technique. Next, some darker brown color. This will add a sense of dimension. So I'm going to fly some sprinkled some water here. So this one does play a very loose fn. They don't want to spend much time on the be, dealing of this wouldn't be. My focus here is just the pigeon, right? So very loosely I'll be covering this, applying paint and on both feet of the region. Okay. So we will wait for this to dry completely and we'll see you after. This has dried. Now, I'm going to take burnt umber and Payne's gray to make a darker brown color. Here. This area. And create the picture of the North trying to achieve any poll section. Maybe lose them been doing this splatter, some painters. Am I being slightly darker pink for the feet? Okay, So we are done with this. Works remove the masking tape. Alright, so this is how I'm painting looks like. I hope you have enjoyed painting this with me. Do share your projects under the projects gallery. So please do share your review for this class. That would really mean a lot to me. You in my next class, until then, bye-bye.