Painting with Pencils – Birds – Part One

 

In the first session Linda will advise you on where to find good reference material for your painting, plus she’ll share some tips of working out the composition that’ll suit the little painting.

Approximate run time: 39 minutes

Presenter: Linda Kemshall

In the first session Linda will advise you on where to find good reference material for your painting, plus she'll share some tips of working out the composition that'll suit the little painting.
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To work along with the ideas in this workshop you’ll need:

Reference photos
Watercolour paper
Wooden panel (optional)
Water soluble coloured pencils
Paintbrush
Water pot and kitchen roll/paper towel

The other workshops in this course...

Painting with Pencils – Bird Paintings

Download printable, high resolution images of the paintings that you’ll see featured in this course.

Painting with Pencils – Reference Images

Download the reference images that Linda uses for this course.

Painting with Pencils – Birds – Part Three

In this session work along to complete the painting and mount it to the wooden panel ready for display.

Painting with Pencils – Birds – Part Two

In this session work along with Linda to make your painting. Start with a sketchy drawing then add wash and further detail.

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