Will Elliston

Learn to Paint a Stag in Watercolor: Step-by-Step Painting Using Easy, Loose & Expressive Techniques

Ein wunderschöner Hirsch. Danke das Dir meine Pinnwand gefällt!

Amazing collection of work. I love the palpable tension in many of your watercolors especially these stags, the hares and squirrel. It’s the darker color choices and the energy of the poses for me. You describe the skinny leg as not being finished. I actually like it when there is an almost intentional imperfection left in art work, it’s very human.

Thank you so much for your comment! appriciate!

Your stags look incredibly graceful!

Thank you very much, Luitgared!  It is funny, but I am much more proud of them, seeing them now!

Oh - you should definitely be proud of these wonderful stags. You made them look so full of life!

Beautiful stag! Nice shadow areas and I love your splatters.. they are noe always as easy to make as they look!

Thank you too for your kind comment! Will’s classes and techniques are great! Not every painting and mostly not the first are the best, but after a few …
Hope to see more of your work!

Wow I didn't see all of them. You made many, very nice!! I think my favorite is nr 4, 5 and 10. I think it's the combination of colours and also the look in the eyes. Keep ut the good work!

The best paintings with Will Elliston classes I get, when I (after practice) can use the technique without the help of the video. I made many sheep, goose and stags! 
I am more satisfied with the paintings weeks later!

Love your work and your many versions. I agree with Carmen. Something special about number 5. Frame it!

Thanks! #5 Is my favorite painting. I think that's is why.I framed it already!

Great job on this watercolor painting. You did very well.

Thanks!!! # 6 is my favorite and it hangs on the wall. I just saw one leg is very thin! Must correct that!

love the face on number 5 , has such a startled look and he is ready to run away, nice antlers too

I have drawn two more stags in the snow and will paint them next week without watching the lessons.Done! #8!

Try to paint loose. That is not that easy! Find my white paint today! That’s better than a white pen!I will use better paper for next paintings, because it is too easy to overwork this Canson XL-paper.

These are fantastic! It's so great that you have so many goes. It's the best way to learn. I also used to re-paint the same thing multiple times, it's very insightful.  It must have taken a long time, so I really appreciate it

You're exactly right Canson XL-paper was my go-to paper when learning weatercolor. It's fairly cheap as you can take risks without fear of spending lots of money. However once I was comfortable I moved on to cotton based paper, (like Arches) and I won't go back. I still have heaps of Canson paper left because I never used it anymore. It's just impossible to create the same effects on it as when using cotton based.

Thanks, I will give the Canson to the kids in the family! I try some more stags the snow!

Finished this class with more stags and a painting on o big sheet of cotton paper, laying in my cupboard for ages.
Learned so much! Enjoy the techniques.I will return to the sheep. To see what is going better after this class!

#10
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/d78b8185.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/d78b8185.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/d78b8185.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 1 - student project"> # 9! The last one! I guess! Two big stags on a big sheet of cotton paper. I added more blue to this grazing stag.
on a big sheet 500 g cotton<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/016e506a.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/016e506a.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/016e506a.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 2 - student project">
 #8 the back end is more of a pig! On Canson XL 
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/f7f887ea.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/f7f887ea.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/f7f887ea.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 3 - student project">
#7 on Canson XL
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/57fbeb5e.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/57fbeb5e.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/57fbeb5e.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 4 - student project">
#6
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/b35afe06.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/b35afe06.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/b35afe06.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 5 - student project">
 Framed this one, but after two weeks I saw the skinny leg! Now I see it every time when I walk down the stairs! So this one is not finished!
#nr 5
  <img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/39cbe10c.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/39cbe10c.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/39cbe10c.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 6 - student project">
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/2f01cd8b.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/2f01cd8b.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/2f01cd8b.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 7 - student project">
 
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/6dbad558.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/6dbad558.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/6dbad558.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 8 - student project">
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/c3b91f01.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/c3b91f01.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/5448539b250bb3f7172bef41ccf1a3ba/c3b91f01.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Stags - image 9 - student project">

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