Great Blue Heron PDF

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Learn to Paint a Great Blue Heron in Watercolour, with my Step by Step Downloadable PDF Tutorial

The Great Blue Heron was not on my radar to paint, but when we did a poll of our members, it came out top, so here’s the tutorial! The bird is very similar to our UK Grey Heron, but with subtle differences, and obviously a lot larger! They can stand up to an impressive 1.4 meters tall, that’s around 4.5 feet. They are very much a North American species, but do wander further south, particularly in the winter. They can live around fresh and saltwater, where they will pretty much eat anything that they can grab with their lightening fast beak.

This is an advanced level project, indeed the background will be challenging from the start. This is the first time I’ve included a background that is this complex in a tutorial. Feel free to go with a pale, mottled background to make the project a lot more manageable, particularly if you are new to watercolour. The bird has a lot of subtle changes in colour and tone, so we work with a fairly large palette on this one, but as with all my tutorials, we go through things in small steps, so that it’s not too overwhelming, but it will all take time, and a lot of patience!

This is an instant PDF download, you could start painting the Heron in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to wait for the post to arrive! You will receive a 48-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.