Quick SIMPLE watercolours, GOLDFINCH - Episode 7 - Wildlife Art Series
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The wonderful Goldfinch. Great colours and great character!!
The colours for this painting were all from Holbein:
Pyrole Red
Prussian Blue
Imidazilone Yellow
It was painted on Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour paper (gummed block) with a size 14 & size 8 synthetic round brush.
You can download the line drawing to copy at the Patreon link below. Simply visit the page and scroll down for the attachment. This is viewable by public, NO account required :)
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Also a great source of copyright free images:
Pixabay.com
In this series we will be looking at using minimal equipment to create quick & simple, 10 - 20 minute, watercolour paintings of birds. The emphasis will be on lots of movement, character and letting the beautiful medium of watercolour just do it's thing! With just the odd hit of detail. These are going to be fun and expressive watercolours, full of life...and hopefully for everyone from total beginner to seasoned watercolourist.
As the series goes on I will be building on the these approaches, principles and tips, so please consider subscribing if this is your thing.
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How to paint birds, particularly in watercolour. Wet into wet techniques in watercolours. Watercolor flying birds and watercolor perched birds, of all sorts, from tropical birds to garden birds, and everything in between.
Brilliant!
Thanks John!!:)
your painting is marvelous. A beautiful painting!
I know now how not what to do. (Bee Bee 🐝) So glad I joined your Art School 🙂
Love this type of tutorial ❤ Many thanks
I love your birds they give me the confidence to paint them myself. I struggle with where to put the legs and end up guessing and ruing my painting. Thank you Tom.
Oh that’s lovely to hear. Yes, they really can ruin a good painting (I’ve done it many times!!)...which is why I’ve got very good at avoiding them..ha! Thank you for the comment.
Wow...your painting strokes are real inspiration...!
Art therapy thank you so much!!:)
Super fun! Thank you!
Short but sweet 🙏🏻
thank you :)
Enjoyed this tutorial. Can’t wait till I start my own bird. Like yours!!!!
Carol Burkett ahh thank you...good luck!! They’re great fun :)
Thank you for showing your drawing process in this video. I am painting along your bird videos in sequence and love the way it all comes together in the end. The videos are awesome! Thank you so much for doing them in real time and posting them here.
My pleasure...thank you for such a lovely comment and your support! So glad to hear you’re enjoying them and painting doing!! T
I can’t wait to paint this tomorrow! I’ve painted every bird in this series and I just love them all! I will post and tag you for sure. THANK YOU for taking the time to come up with the project and record it as I know how time-consuming that is. You’re a great instructor and I loved trying your technique - it’s so stress free!
Thank you so so much for such a lovely comment! It’s so nice to hear you’ve been trying them, and that they’re being appreciated!! ...and stress free, that’s the best compliment!!!;)
I have loved all of your quick bird videos and have tried painting 2 of them so far. Thank you for explaining thing's very clearly. 🤗
Thank you!! Love hearing that! Which two did you try??:)
@@tomshepherdartist I tried the magpie and the kingfisher. My daughter in-law loved the magpie so much she wanted it for her birthday. So thank you. Would love to send you a photo but can't attach to this post.
Espectacular acuarela de aves , ya es difícil en esta técnica aguada sugerir y dar luces y sombras y hace usted el jilguero con toda plenitud de color y morfología ,me encanta dibujar animales ojala algun dia haga una acuarela por lo menos cercana a las suyas , cordial saludo 👏👏🎨🎨🥇👑
I’ve been watching lots of videos in my quest to return to watercolour painting. Yours was definitely one of those where I wanted to stop watching and get painting! Love your style and I thank you for the inspiration. Subbed!
That’s great to hear! Thank you for the support. T
Hello. I've just discovered and am enjoying this series so much! Currently trying to paint along to the American Robin and the wren. I love you style and your skill with the watercolor. I've gone to Patreon to look for the reference photos but only see a few of the birds in the series?
I don’t mind if they’re longer videos either.
Thank you!! That’s great to know!!!:)
What is the size of the paper used or the image?
Just had a go at painting this, but had to guess which colours you were using. I am quite pleased with the result although it took so long the wet into wet technique didn’t work as areas dried before I could do it. Is it possible to re saturate the paper after the first wash has dried? Also which paper do you use please ? Thank you for the tutorials, I love them !
Hi Christine. You can re-wet an area once dried to work over the top. usually you have to go quite lightly so not to disturb or muddy the under layer. I use a few papers, my favourites are Winsor & Newton Professional, Baohong and Two Rivers. Thanks so much. kind Regards, T
So far I have painted each bird and learned alot--I was curious about why these birds have no feet?
Thanks Jane...that's lovely to hear! Basically I'm rubbish at painting feet!!...More seriously though I've found that too much detail in the feet can look a bit odd with this style of painting, so I either avoid them all together or hint at them...it's certainly something I'm working on, that is trying to find a good way to depict them..
I'm first!!! Hello Tom, Thank you for your very informative videos😊 do you paint landscapes in watercolor??? If you do, can you post a video demo of painting landscapes? Thanks
You are indeed!!:)....I’ve just started doing a few, so I will post some up n next month or so!!:)
I Love your videos and painting style. I've never worked with Holbein but love the idea of no ox gall ... could you advise me on a selection of Holbein colors that would enable me to follow along on your bird adventure. Thank you so much
Thanks so much for your comment and support! I love Holbein colours!!:) A good place to start is very simply a cool and warm of each primary. My selection is - ultramarine Blue (warm), pthalo blue ( cool and very strong, great for turqouise), pyrole red (warm and orangey), quinacridone red (cool and pinky, you could even go quinacridone magenta for a very cool red), imidazilone yellow (cool) and new gamboge yellow (warm)....for me that covers everything you would want to mix, pthalo and pyrole give you a very deep rich dark.....of course you could always chuck in some extras plus convenience colours eg permanent orange, burnt sienna, prussian blue, turquoise, purple, all very useful but not essential if you have primaries :) Hope that helps!!
Thank you so much, Tom. This certainly helps. How essential is the Manganese blue for you in youre mix of colors - you used it for the blue tit ...
@@lilyhess772 Manganse is just one of those colours that I personally just really love. By no means essential but I love using it.... It makes lovely muted greys and it is also naturally a lighter colour than Pthalo or Prussian, which are both dark. Which means it doesn't give you deep darks...It's cool and more muted than Pthalo, which is very powerful, almost too much sometimes. So very useful 'midtone' blue, recommended but not essential :)
I love your tutorials, but I botched this one. Didn’t mix up enough paint for the brown and black bits. Will keep trying!