Mixed Media Animal Portraits

With Watercolor or Gouache

What you'll learn
How to choose a good animal subject to paint
How to draw accurately and judge proportions
How to use watercolor or gouache to paint fur and other features
How to add final details with mixed media.
Requirements
Beginning art skills
Description
This class is dedicated to making lively, expressive, personality-filled portraits of animals, whether it’s your own pets, that goat you met at the county fair, or your favorite wild animal.Here’s what you’ll learn in this course:How to use either watercolor or gouache, along with mixed-media supplies like colored pencil and markers, to create portraits in your own style.How to use measurements, grids, and negative space to get the drawing right.How to make a “color map” with colored pencil to establish a base layer of color and value—and to get over the fear of the blank page!Different approaches to starting a portrait, by either building up dark tones first or beginning with light washes.Options for using pen and ink in your animal portraitsFinishing touches and texture with our mixed media supplies.We're going to be painting dogs, cats, and…chickens! There's also a quick time-lapse demo of a giraffe portrait.  I’ll provide photos for you to work from, but I also encourage you to round up your own pictures of your pets or your favorite animals.This is a really fun, whimsical approach to making a portrait in your own style. Once you see the technique, you’ll be able to paint all your favorite animals, and make portraits to hang on the wall or give as gifts. This class is perfect for beginning and intermediate artists, but will also offer some fresh ideas to more advanced artists.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Supplies

Lecture 3 Colored Pencil Watercolor Demo

Section 2: Let's paint a dog!

Lecture 4 Dog Pencil Sketch

Lecture 5 Dog Colored Pencil

Lecture 6 Dog Painting Dark Colors

Lecture 7 Dog Painting Light Colors

Lecture 8 Dog Painting Background

Lecture 9 Dog Painting Details

Lecture 10 Dog Mixed Media

Section 3: Now Let's Paint a Cat!

Lecture 11 Cat Measurements

Lecture 12 Cat Pencil Drawing

Lecture 13 Cat Colored Pencil

Lecture 14 Cat light wash

Lecture 15 Cat light tones

Lecture 16 Cat Medium Tones

Lecture 17 Cat Grey Shadows

Lecture 18 Cat Background

Lecture 19 Cat Final Touches

Lecture 20 Cat Mixed Media

Section 4: Giraffe Time Lapse!

Lecture 21 Giraffe Time Lapse Demo

Section 5: Chickens with Ink and Watercolor

Lecture 22 Blondie Pencil Sketch

Lecture 23 Blondie Fine Ink Lines

Lecture 24 Blondie Ink

Lecture 25 Blondie Brush Pen

Lecture 26 Blondie Watercolor

Lecture 27 Abigail Pencil

Lecture 28 Abigail Ink

Lecture 29 Abigail Watercolor

Section 6: Chickens with Gouache

Lecture 30 Ladybird Pencil

Lecture 31 Ladybird Gouache

Lecture 32 Ladybird Background

Lecture 33 Ladybird Finishing Touches

Lecture 34 George Pencil

Lecture 35 George Gouache

Section 7: Wrapping Up

Lecture 36 Wrapping Up

Basic and intermediate artists