Sand Cat PDF

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Learn to Paint a Sand Cat in Watercolour, with my Step by Step Downloadable PDF Tutorial

Sand Cats, as their name suggests, are highly adapted to life in the desert. They can survive without water, obtaining most of the moisture they need from their prey, which they can even detect underground. Their pads are insulated from the sand by a mat of hairs, enabling them to run on sand that is shifting underneath them. Sand Cats are native to the Sahara, and sandy deserts in the Middle East and parts of Asia.

This is an advanced level tutorial, as there are a lot of aspects to the painting. Keeping the fur pale overall, but still showing shape and form, means that some very subtle changes in colour are needed. To recreate these slight colour changes, requires tiny adjustments to the density of the fur lines and the mixes you use, and for a beginner artist, this may be challenging. That said, if you really want to have a go, then do, I go through every stage, and what have you got to lose?

This is an instant PDF download, you could start painting this Sand Cat in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to wait for the post to arrive! You will receive a 33-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.