Ep 1 - How to Paint Birds - Quick simple watercolour of a flying Raven
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- First proper painting episode in this new series of quick watercolour birds. Don't forget to check out the intro video for a full breakdown of my simple materials.
This was painted using Prussian Blue & Pyrole Red on Jackson's Eco Paper (gummed block) with a size 14 & size 8 synthetic round brush.
You can download the line drawing to copy at the Patreon link below. Simply visit page and scroll down for the attachment. This is viewable by public, NO account required :)
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In this series we will be looking at using minimal equipment to create quick & simple, 10 - 20 minute, watercolour paintings of birds. The emphasis will be on lots of movement, character and letting the beautiful medium of watercolour just do it's thing! With just the odd hit of detail. These are going to be fun and expressive watercolours, full of life...and hopefully for everyone from total beginner to seasoned watercolourist.
In this episode I simply introduce some basic materials options. As the series develops I will delve deeper into various aspects, of not only the medium of watercolour, but also loads of tricks and tips to develop your observation skills, drawing and painting of birds.
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How to paint birds, particularly in watercolour. Wet into wet techniques in watercolours. Watercolor flying birds and watercolor perched birds, of all sorts, from tropical birds to garden birds, and everything in between. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Hi everyone, what bird would you like to see me paint?
Or do you have any other topics or questions you would like me to cover in the Watercolour Bites series?
Please leave a comment and I'll see what I can do!!:)
Baltimore Oriole!
@@catherinepateras4772 great! It’s in the list..that should be fun :) thank you..T
Cardinal. Been struggling with them.
@@lindsaypm oo great choice!! I tried one once, total failure...been needing a little kick to try again! Thank you :)....got a few more requests on the list to tackle first, but keep an eye our early in the New Year!!:) thanks for your support :) T
I was just going to suggest cardinals. Yay, I’m excited now...
This is a perfect video to go with your Simply Paint Birds book.
Nicely done.
Thank you, Tom
I love your quick birds - they're just so fun and full a life and a great way to learn to paint them, while also learning other techniques of how to use colors and brushes strokes to highlight what you want in the painting. Great teaching for me!!!
Some birds I'd like to see you paint are : kingfisher, red robin, and yellow or orange canary
I painted my first raven while I watched you teach, everybody loves my raven. I love how you paint and teach.
So glad you came up in my feed: you are a great teacher, especially where you explain about drawing the bird.
Ahh thank you so much for a lovely comment!!:)
So glad Paul Clark mentioned your channel.
In between it looks like a next-level Rorschach test. The result is gorgeous!❤
Haha! Yes....thank you :)
Totally agree with Kerry B.. You explain very well. Very instructive and helpful what you said about "why two colors for a black bird" and the drawing of the bird. I also like your watercolor style and of course I love birds! Big Thank You!
Thanks so much for the lovely comment!!:) T
Thank you for this tutorial on the Raven. I have painted it and I am pleased with it. You advice on paint consistency is very valuable. I am looking forward to the next bird.
I'm looking forward to seeing how your on line school works.
Thanks Hazel...me too. It’s currently in very good and professional hands and should be launched in April :) T
Fabulous 👌
Loved the way you explained and let the color do it's thing. I am gonna try this and post it asap. 😊 Your a great teacher Tom.
Thanks so much! Really appreciate that...would love to see how you get on!!:) T
Absolutely beautiful! For me this is watercolour!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much for such a lovely comment! T
Amazing tips👍🙏
Thanks so much!!:)
Thank you amazing learned a lot!
Thanks so much. Glad it helped! T
This is the best watercolor painting lesson ever. Thank you
Great Tutorial !!
Thanks so much!!!:)
I was told of your channel by someone in a watercolour group I belong to. This is just great!
Thanks so much for joining me on here!!:)
Wow! Beautiful!
Thanks so much!! T
NICE!
Thanks! :) T
How gorgeous is this! Excellent tutorial, I’ll have to have a go
Mars this time of year is beautiful 👽
I’ve heard the same ...lovely time to visit!!
❤ Great Tutorial! Love how you paint birds! And explain drawing!
Love the signature.
Thank you...it’s evolved over many years!!:)
Thanks Tom. I like how you keep it simple and loose
Wow! This is a fabulous teaching! Thank you 💯
What a great video!! Brilliant!
Thank you so much!!
Love this! Thank you!
You are very welcome! Thank you. T
Insanely brilliant video. Radical talent man, thank you for sharing
Ahh thanks so much!! Really appreciate it ☺️🙌🏼✊
This is the beauty of watercolor right here, and its so hard for me to achieve because I struggle to let the paint and brush do their thing! Lovely work, thank you 💗
thanks for a lovely comment. My pleasure...free flowing colours is watercolour at it's best..never as easy as it sounds they!! :) T
Lovely brush strokes and loose style. Thank you for doing these tutorials in real time with explanation. Very helpful. Definitely will try the approach myself. Thank you.
Thanks so much for a lovely comment! Much appreciated!!:)
thank you Tom! this was fun to do for a beginner like me! it's drying now and i'm loving it. cheers ! from oz
Ahhh, that’s so great to hear! Thank you :)
These tutorials are great - had fun with the avocet (ep 2) and looking forward to the rest. Thanks!
Thank you! So glad to hear :) (thank you for joining me on Patreon) T
Lovely I’m going to give this try ! Thank you !
Oo great...i'd love to hear how you get on!:)
I really appreciate that you included specific info about how the amount of water changes the effects of the paint's flow and its appearance. I think I may finally understand why so many of my attempts end up in the trash! I use too much water, in addition to overworking the painting, and am rarely happy with the result. Glad I found your channel and your loose approach to painting. Thanks so much!
Hi Joanna. Thanks so much for the comment. Glad it helps. I’m releasing another video in the next two weeks looking much closer at the amount of water and pigment...it’s probably the most important element of watercolour. If you can get a feel for it it goes a really long way :) T
Very nice! love this one a lot!
Ahh, thank you. I still have it as a favourite, I think juts down to it's simplicity!:) T
❤ your videos and teaching style
Thank you so much!!!:)
Great tutorial. I’ve always been apprehensive about painting birds but I’m looking forward to trying this. Thank you.
Thank you :)....they can be made really simple and as a result, very fun! Good luck :6 T
Thank you for this tutorial, I have been fascinated with both corvids and watercolor and wished there's a tutorial to paint them. I will try to paint along with your video here.
I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. I love painting watercolor birds and love you style. I think I will learn a lot from your demos.
Ahh, I'm so pleased! :) thank you...T
I love your style of painting!!! Sharp brush movements!!! So professional 👏
Thanks so much!!☺️🙌🏼🙏T
love this ...absolutely beautiful and helpful video
Thank you so much, and so pleased it was useful! T
I feel like you have helped me understand watercolors and the properties and i have learned not to be so literal with my paintings and be come more looser, it almost looks professional
Thanks Scott! So glad it;s helped. Yeah, not being so literal is so much fun. Takes a little shift in mindset but it always amazes me how we really don;t need to paint things exactly as they are. At least on some areas. T
You are a great teacher
Ahh, thank you for the kind words!!
Great teaching..and so quick.....made it look so easy and fun...
Thank you!!:) it was a really fun one!! T
Wow! Wow! I simply love painting birds. Huge thanks for this series and little bit to some AI algorithms gods as well! I'm going to binge watch your channel now!
Haha well done algorithm gods!! Thank you so much :) T
I love your videos❤️ its relax to watch. And your paintings are so amazing!
It's really outstanding!!
Great job!
Thanks so much!!! T
So cool
Thank you!!:)
Would love to be able to see your pallet at the same time, please! Fantastic teaching, love it!
Thank you!!...defintily a great idea regards palette, im working on setting up my phone as a seperate camera :)
@@tomshepherdartist maybe just zoom out to the right a bit, including a lil bit of the pallet. I struggle with drenching my paper and the ratio of pigment so to see what you do will help (i hope) lol i will have also another go at drawing.
thanks!!!
WOW - ok so at first I was super sceptical. I did however have to not think and just do whilst shelving perfectionism.
However, I am in love with what I have created out of this tutorial. It is freeing to paint this way. Thank you so much for these tutorials.
I adore the mini blackbird but you don't seem to have it on a tutorial just as a thumb - it would be so sweet to see how you did that one.
Thank you for being a patient, thorough, guide to this process.... Thank you thank you thank you
Ahh thank you!!:)...its a fun way to work :)
That was lovely! Keep growing brother!
Thank you!!🙌🏼🙏
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My pleasure! o glad you enjoyed it :)
Just discovered your page ❤️🔥 love it
Thank you so much!!!:) 🙌🏼
You are really talented! subbed.
Thanks so much for the support!! T
It was amazing watching you paint the Raven. I just found you accidentally, but subscribed immediately. I don’t know if you have shown one yet, but I would love to see you paint a Dove. I’m going to start searching. Thank you so much for a really fabulous lesson! 🙋
Thanks for such a lovely message Sue!!:) I’ll definitely pop a dove on the list!!☺️ thanks for your support!
Lovely loose style -
Thank you!!:)
I learned something today thanx bro
Cheers Roger!!
I would love to see you paint a female Alexandrian Parakeet (a small parrot). My Ruby passed and I'd love to capture her in a painting. Thank you.
This is amazing :) going to try it today
Thank you!! Great...good luck!! Feel free to share if you would like :)
Tom Shepherd Art thanks Tom. All done. How do you share the photo here please?
@@pigeon070 oo great...Im not sure how on here. You can do so on instagram or drop me an email tom@tomshepherdart.com :) look forward to seeing!!:)
First time I've looked at your work. Recommended by Paul Clark
Loved your beautiful bird.
Thank you!! Had not known Paul had done this until I saw your comment. Very kind of him. Thank you for joining me over here!!:) T
Hi Tom, brilliant, you have got me painting in water colour again. However just copying your work only works up to a point. Is it possible for you could add a copy of your reference photo as well as the line drawing, this would help considerably in understanding your thought process. Explaining why you do things as well as how to paint a subject is your strong point.
Sam Clarke thanks Sam! That’s great to hear. I usually create a drawing using 2 or 3 different photos, however I’m very happy to post up reference photo / photos as well...great idea!! King fisher coming next week and I shall do do with that....thanks for the comment and kind words! Appreciate the support :)
Thank you for your time. Will be doing this ! Love watching and doing the expressive brush strokes! Using and mixing colors. Question in one of your videos addressing colors and washes. You mentioned Phthalo blue. Green shade or red shade.
I would love to learn how to paint sparrows, if you have not done a video on it. I did a few recently but all looked a bit illustration-like. I love how you paint, loose but structured at the same time!
Ooo good subject...yes, very tricky. Hard to keep it fresh with so many potential details!! I’ll put in on the list :) thank you!!
Hi Tom, excellent, brilliant. Your style is inspiring me to paint. If I could ask a question, do you leave your drawing lines in or do you rub them out?
Thanks so much, Lisa. I usually leave the lines in. I quite like seeing them. Every so often I rub out any that are a bit heavy or detract from areas, so i ind og gauge it on an individual basis :)
I'm trying to paint a cormorant in their typical wings-spread-to-dry pose, and this is really helpful to that end, thank you! Do you have any vids on cormorant painting, while I'm at it?
Such fantastic work! Thanks for much for sharing with these tutorials. How about painting a Pine Warbler? I have one that visits me every day. They are terribly hard to photograph since they are so speedy.
Thank you so much! Love that idea...if I can find a paintable photo I will definitely give it a go!:)
I’m in love with your channel! Just found it. I am new at this and I really appreciate your clear instruction, Bites and the birds ❤️ I just did the first tutorial of the raven and turned out pretty ok. I don’t think I can drop a pic of it here?
Hi Heather, thanks so much. You can tag me on Instagram if you’re on there. Or pop me an email!
Hi Tom. Just starting out with my watercolour journey and so pleased i found you and your channel. Really inspires me. Could i ask what paper you are using so i know what to buy. Thankyou so much. Casey.
Hi Casey, so glad you’re getting something from the videos. This particular paper is called Jackson’s Eco Paper. It’s quite an unusual paper, very soft and stays wet along time ...it doesn’t really behave like most other papers (which has pros and cons)....ordinarily I use Canson Moulin Du Roy, Winsor and Newton Classic is a great and affordable paper, their professional paper is great too but very expensive, I also use Stonehenge Aqua - I tend to favour coldpress/not/rough texture and use gummed blocks as generally you don’t have to stretch paper or anything but it doesn’t buckle much, they’re just easy and neat :)
There’s loads of great papers out there and everyone likes different things, but hopefully that gives you start point.
Feel free to ask further questions if needed :)
T
Thank you Tom for your generous sharing！
Love your tutorial！
I try to dry a big brush stroke like you however I can't make the white gap like you do on your work. What can I do in order to make those beautiful little white gaps in the brush strokes?
Thanks Brenda. So glad you enjoyed it!! Ah yes, love those broken brushstrokes. It does take a bit of practice - a rougher texture paper makes it far easier. Play around with paint consistency, less water generally makes it easier, but there’s a balance with tone and getting paint to flow of course....I e found some brushes almost do it naturally whilst others you have to be more purposeful.....when a brush needs to be more purposeful I tend to work with the brush slightly on its side and skim over the page, often quite quickly...basically have an experiment with holding the brush at different angles, playing around with different pressures, and different speeds :) hope that helps...
@@tomshepherdartist thanks a lot!!!!very helpful!
What kind of paper are you using it looks thick.
I'm very impressed! Was looking for someone who could teach loose bird, and I found you! Did you paint this on a flat surface or at an angle?
Thank you so much :) so this one I painted flat, which I tended to do a lot. More recently I’ve been painting on a gentle tilt which I’m really enjoying. Do you prefer one of the other?? T
@@tomshepherdartist Mostly I've used an angle, but I started with acrylics, so I've been working my way towards flat. I love the subtlety and nuance of watercolour. I'm a happy beginner (and a bird lover) Looking forward to doing all your birds.
@@trishking4423 ah ok, great!!:) I tend to play around with both these days...and vary the angle. Certainly no right or wrong. Glad to have you onboard!!!:) T
Great video but I was distracted by the fantastic granulation. How did you achieve that. Even with colors that should granulate like ultramarine I only get a hint.
Hey Tom love your art. I have a question did you always painted loose?
My teacher said everyone starts from realism then they choose Impressionism…
Haha would agree with that 99.9% based on own experience and teaching many other artists!! I started very, very tight...very exact, lots of hard edges and everything render to equal levels of detail. I still love a little realism in places but very much a painterly approach as much as possible. And always looking to try and get looser and more painterly.
I don't know what it is about this approach but it seems to be attractive to so many artists!!:). For me it was seeing the work of Sorolla & Zorn that made me fall in love with looser approach (this is back when I was an oil painter)
@@tomshepherdartist you know I’ve just started painting and I work with watercolor and pastels. But I just love loose style of painting and don’t really like to work on too much details. Do you think I can still be good at it or it’s better to learn realism first?
I just did this raven, the wet on wet is a problem because everything is drying too fast. Was I supposed to wet the paper first?
It maybe down to the paper. Cotton paper, especially rougher textures tends to stay wet longer. Not using enough water and pigment can be an issue, as can a dry and / or hot room.
Wetting or damping the paper first can help. Pre mixing colours means working quicker. Using a spray bottle to give a light spray every so often helps keep washes “alive” to work wet in wet ...
Hope that helps
T
I would love to know where to get the palette you are using in EP 1.
I am not sure if it is this video or the next one but I don't know what type of yellow to use because in one of these videos you don't include yellow until you are using it.
What kind of paper to use
This paper is Jackson’s eco gummed block. It is quite soft and stays wet for sometime. Cotton rag.....I also use Windsor and Newton professional often. T
When can you have an alien painting 👽
😆 I don’t think I’ve ever painted an alien, or “off world being”
Hey Tom,👽
having a hard time getting anywhere close to painting strokes that give the same effect
Hi there. So much of watercolour is about paint consistency and the pressure of the brush. As a very general start point - Drier paint and/or quicker lighter touches will give more broken strokes.....more water and/or slower strokes and marks will create more smoothness. T
Herring Gulls please Tom wild and free thanks
Oo lovely...I’ll pop it on the list!! Wild and free it is!!
when you are talking about consistancy...what is neat paint? I have never heard of that term.
Ok, so basically straight out of the tube, all though some colours and brands that am be too stiff, so may also have a tiny touch of water in the brush....you may hear it called butter or marmite too. Basically lots of pigment, very little, if any water.....I have a whole video in paint consistency. That might really help you out :) T
@@tomshepherdartist thank you, was just a new term for me. Your paintings are beautiful!
The drawing part is hard.
It is. Lots of practice. I will have some videos in 2022 on drawing. T
What is “neat paint”?
This is what I call paint straight out of the tube, no water added (or maybe there’s a tiny dampness in the brush) ...
@@tomshepherdartist thank you! where’s your accent from?