Collared Dove PDF
£5.50
Description
Watercolour Painting Tutorial, Downloadable Collared Dove PDF, Limited Palette Fine Art Guide
The Collared Dove is a pale, pinky-brown-grey colour with a distinctive black collar which obviously gives the bird its name. It’s smaller than a pigeon but from the same family, and has quite a familiar cooing call. You may hear this in gardens, woodlands and parks.
This tutorial is based on a very limited palette. The bird is pretty much worked in three main mixes – so it really does teach you about looking for subtle tonal variations within your subject. The other challenge with this project is to ensure that the finished painting doesn’t look like a blue bird. The reference photo has a definite blue hue, and whilst this looks fine in a photo, it would look odd in a painting. Through the tutorial we work on slightly changing the tones so that our finished painting looks as realistic as possible.
This is an instant PDF download, you could start painting this Collared Dove in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to wait for the post to arrive! You will receive a 40-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.
