Assignment

Your class project is to paint a betta fish starting with loose wet in wet washes and moving to building up form by layering darks.

Materials

the reference photo can be found on pixabay Betta Fish Reference

The paints I'll be using are

Winsor and Newton Permanent Rose
Daniel Smtih Phthalo Turquoise
Daniel Smith Indigo
White Gouache (this is just for a tiny highlight in the eye, no need to buy it)

Brushes - I'll be using all Neef brushes. Two large brushes, LP4600 size 12 and LP4750 size 10, both are squirrel/taklon mix. I'll also be using a small synthetic brush (taklon round 970 size 0) for the details and to lift highlights, a bright stiff synthetic 95B size 4.

Arches cold press watercolour paper, 300g

Palette (I use a cheap basic one)

Board for the paper (I'm painting flat on the board but I don't tape down)

Tissues/paper towel

HB pencil and eraser

Jar of water

Sharing Your Work

Please feel free to post your finished painting (or any of the stages) under "Your Project". Questions are encouraged and welcome.

The work you produce is for your own personal use - go ahead and hang it on your wall or gift to a friend but paintings from the class are not to be sold or exhibited.

Malu Confa

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