Bark Study PDF

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Watercolour Painting Tutorial, Downloadable Realistic Bark Study PDF, Learn to Paint Detail

Painting realistic looking bark can be a daunting prospect at the end of a painting, so I thought a short study piece may help. Any textured surface is as much about what you can’t see, as it is about what you can see. So for this bark, it is actually the dark crevices and cracks that give it shape and a lifelike feel. The first study is worked with a single colour, and as such it will really make you focus on those dark gaps.

Learning to look carefully at a reference photo will actually go a long way to improving your watercolour paintings. Once the tonal study is complete, we use the techniques we have learnt, to complete a full colour study piece. The bark is actually from the Black Bear Cub tutorial, so maybe when you are finished you will be confident to tackle that next?

This is an instant PDF download, you could start work on these bark studies in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to wait for the post to arrive! You will receive a 22-page PDF document. Set out in the same way as the tutorials I write for magazines. However, you get lots more large photos of the different stages.

Downloadable lessons enable you to work at your own speed, you can dip in and out of the content, you can spend time studying the fine details and practise the various techniques as often as you like.

Have fun with this lesson, take your time and let me know how you get on. Try printing off the last few pages which have the larger versions of the step-by-step photos for additional help.