Blue-tailed Bee-eater PDF

Description

Learn to Paint Birds in Watercolour, with an instantly downloadable watercolour ebook which will guide you through painting this Bee-eater in easy to follow stages.

The Blue-tailed Bee-eater can be found across South and Southeast Asia, generally near water. It feeds on flying insects, particularly bees, dragonflies, wasps and hornets. The birds breed in India, digging their nest, which can be 2 metres deep, into sandy or muddy soil within a vertical bank.

There are a number of elements to this tutorial, hence placing it into an intermediate category. One of the most challenging aspects is showing the tonal differences, without zapping the vibrancy from the plumage colours. Mixing all those various pigments may also be tricky, so use my work as a guide, and try to match your mixes accordingly.

This is an instant PDF download, you could start painting this Blue-tailed Bee-eater in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to wait for the post to arrive! You will receive a 44-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.