Painting Claire’S Cat: Mastering Muted Palette & Fur Texture

Learn tonal underpainting, color mixing, and brush techniques to create lifelike fur and soft edges with confidence.

What you'll learn

Introduction to Claire’s Cat Painting

Mixing Muted Palette Colors and Pigment Selection

Tonal Underpainting

Adding Lights and Highlights

Finishing Strokes

Requirements

Basic familiarity with oil painting materials (brushes, paints, canvas) is helpful but not required

Some experience with drawing or painting is beneficial but beginners are welcome

Access to oil paints, a rigour brush (or similar), and painting supplies

Description

Dive into the art of painting with Claire’s Cat, a comprehensive oil painting course that takes you step-by-step through mixing muted palette colours and understanding how different brands of pigments can affect the final hues in your work. This course emphasises tonal underpainting techniques that help you build and develop your drawing progressively while teaching you how to paint realistic fur using a rigour brush. You’ll learn how to balance soft and hard edges, master blending techniques, and apply finishing strokes that bring your artwork to life.The course is designed to build your confidence with oils and develop your eye for subtle tonal variations, encouraging patience and close observation of your subject. By focusing on capturing the delicate textures and unique character of the cat, you will refine your skills in portraying light, shadow, and depth.With clear, step-by-step video lessons covering colour mixing, underpainting, adding highlights, and applying finishing touches, this course equips you with the techniques needed to create stunning animal portraits full of texture and realism. Whether you are a beginner or an intermediate artist looking to improve your technique, Claire’s Cat offers clear, practical instruction that will help you achieve beautiful results and deepen your enjoyment of oil painting.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Claire’s Cat Painting

Lecture 2 Mixing Muted Palette Colors and Pigment Selection

Lecture 3 Tonal Underpainting

Lecture 4 Adding Lights and Highlights

Lecture 5 Finishing Strokes

Beginner to intermediate oil painters eager to improve portrait and animal painting skills,Artists interested in mastering muted color palettes and tonal underpainting,Painters wanting to learn effective brushwork for realistic fur textures,Art students and hobbyists looking to refine blending and edge techniques