https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Animal-Portraits-in-Watercolor/232667664
In this class, we will be using basic watercolor techniques and just a few colors to create beautiful portraits of pets and animals. Pet portraits make great gifts and are one of the most popular subjects for commissioned artwork, so painting animals is a great skill for all artists to master. In the first part of this course, I will be demonstrating, in detail, the concepts and process for painting a cute, fuzzy kitten. After we've gone over this simple process which can be applied to painting any subject, we will move on to look at a few variations we encounter when painting animals -- Spots, stripes, iridescence, and scales. I'll discuss ways to change the background environment of your portrait as well as how to decide what to include or leave out of pet portraits. I will also show you a great technique for creating an ink underpainting for your watercolor portrait. Finally, there is a bonus video in which we review the watercolor painting process as applied to a horse and we'll also discuss how to identify the "undertone" of your painting and how to use color in a way that promotes harmony throughout the composition.