Painting Fur - Mastering the Wet on Wet Technique

Explore your creativity and strengthen your watercolour painting skills in this step by step watercolour painting class. We will focus on understanding the wet on wet painting technique while you paint this beautiful sleepy Koala.

I'm a professional watercolour artist from Australia. I have sold thousands of my paintings and prints all around the world. My days are now spent teaching others how to paint in this dynamic medium. When I paint I try to find a balance between rendering detail but allowing watercolour to look like watercolour. My favourite technique to use is wet on wet. When watercolour blends on the paper beautiful effects are created as the different pigments combine. In this class I will walk you step by step through my painting process. Whether you are a beginner or you are a more experienced painter this class will give you lots of techniques and tips that will help you expand your painting skills.

You will learn:

• the differences between paper wetness
• how to paint wet on wet
• how to blend colours on the paper
• how to build texture on the under wash
• preserving white paper
• keeping paint edges soft
• how to build up texture and interest
• how to add dimension
• how to remove highlights
• how to achieve a warm/cool temperature balance
• how to use a palette with sloping wells
• Fixing mistakes as you paint

When you enroll, you will have access to the line drawing of the Koala, 2 progress photos of my painting, my finished painting and my reference photo. 

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I look forward to painting with you.

Louise

• Introduction
• Paper Wetness
• Supplies
• Preparation
• Palette Set Up
• Washing in the Head
• Washing in the Arms
• Washing in the Side
• Washing in the Bottom
• Painting the Detail on the Head- Part 1
• Painting the Detail on the Head- Part 2
• The Nose & Further Detail on the Head
• Painting the Shadows on the Arms
• Painting the Shadows on the Bottom
• Adding More Detail to the Bottom
• Painting the Shadows on the Side
• Deepening the Shadows
• Painting the Branch
• Painting the Shadows on the Branch
• Final Details
• Final Thoughts and Thanks