Have you ever dreamed of learning how to master the art of painting watercolour animals? Well this article has been written with YOU in mind.
Everyday we see some beautiful creations of nature that we want to capture for ourselves be it a bird or a tree or a flower or a butterfly. A painter needs to be a good observant so that his paintings reflect the beauty of nature as it is. You can always drag your parents or friends to a zoo or nature park to see the amazing creatures which we call animals.
If you are an amateur painter you can start with drawing animals or birds by taking a reference picture. With practice once you are a pro in painting you can always rely on your imagination.
Now let’s be more technical. Selecting good quality paper, brush & water colors is very important. You can always take help of the salesperson in the shop. Quality of your painting depends a lot on these. Use both flat & round tipped brushes of different size from size zero to at least twelve. Select a good palette on which you can create various colors of your own by mixing various colors.
Let us now move to actual painting the animal. Select an animal which you want to draw. No depending on the animal you selected decide on the background of your drawing. It can be a backdrop of zoo, or a farm or a forest background. Always remember that your background should compliment you animal. It shouldn’t overshadow your animal. Most of the times select a transparent background if your animal is of opaque colors. For example, horse with farm as the background. Vice versa select an opaque background for an animal of light soft colors like for the cheetah or lion, have a dark green forest scene as a background.
Proportion is also another aspect that should be kept in mind. If the body of the animal is out of proportion then a horse may end up looking like donkey. Use a pencil or draw blocks if you are finding it difficult to draw in proportion. Don’t worry with practice you will be perfect.
Always to be on safer side outline the animal with soft pencil lines. As even you don’t get the right shape the first time you always have an eraser. You can run an eraser on the pencil sketch to lighten the pencil lines.
Paint the animal keeping in mind the direction of light source. Also painting shadow of the animal will give an edge to your painting. Do not outline the whole body of the animal with a dark color as black as it will give an artificial look to your drawing.
If you approach painting watercolour animals while remembering all these aspects then you can never go wrong. Paint some animals & frame them in you room & lo you can create your own virtual zoo at your own home!
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