Watercolor Painting Lesson - Realistic Elephant In Detail

Let's get ready to paint lots of wrinkly skin and fine details, using many different techniques along the way.

What you'll learn

How to paint an Elephant in watercolour

Learn how to work with the fine details of a Elephant's skin by layering and considering shapes, dry-brushing and much more.

Paint realistic eyes. How to paint realistic skin texture and creat realism

Foundation or wash colours, how to apply them for those intitial much needed washes of colours. All ready for when we start on the details.

Working with the wet in wet technique

How to create fine details through scumbling, dry brush work and creating the overall contours of the body

How to use watercolor white paint, gouache can be used instead

What is watercolour white paint and how to use it

Requirements

A basic reasonable quality watercolour kit such as paints, watercolour white or white gouache, masking fluid, good watercolour paper, waterpots, kitchen roll and brushes.

Description

African Elephants are the largest walking animals on our planet. Their ears are bigger than that of the Indian Elephant, and enable them to radiate excess heat. Their tusks are actually two of their upper incisor teeth, and they continue to grow throughout the elephant’s lifetime.This project is challenging, we are working with a lot of detail, and some painting experience would be very beneficial. That said, the project is broken into small manageable steps, so less experienced artists may want to try an element of the painting, or practise the different stages separately. This is a project that will stretch over several days, and this gives an opportunity to continually reassess the whole piece with fresh eyes, on more than one occasion.With anything like this, please take your time, don't try to get this project completed within a day, remember, you should never rush a painting. Stepping back and taking your eyes away from the painting, even for just a couple of minutes, can help you spot things you may not have noticed, when your focus is very often close to the piece.So let's get ready to paint lots of wrinkly skin and fine details, using many different techniques along the way.Practice those colours out on some scrap watercolour paper before you start, just so you have a good understanding about the colours you will need, and in turn fewer mistakes along the way. :-)Paul

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Elephant Video Part 1 of 5

Lecture 3 Elephant Video Part 2 of 5

Lecture 4 Elephant Video Part 3 of 5

Lecture 5 Elephant Video Part 4 of 5

Lecture 0 Elephant Video Part 5 of 5

Intermediate