How to paint a bird in acrylics | With one brush

How to paint a bird in acrylics | With one brush | Perfect beginner tutorial

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In this tutorial I'll show how to paint a realistic bird and feathers with one brush. A perfect beginner acrylic painting tutorial. The one brush challenge is a great way of improving our brush technique which means we can get the most out of the brushes we have. Using correct brush technique from how much pressure to apply, how to hold the brush even down to how we load the acrylic paint onto the brush will effect the type of brush stroke created. This really shows that when using good technique we don't need to be using a range of brush shapes in a variety of sizes. I was able to get fine details with this same brush just by adjusting how I used it. This was a really fun project and would be ideal for any artist new to acrylic painting =).
00:00 Background
01:02 Just one brush!
01:54 Base layers
02:15 Brush technique
03:14 Layering process
05:15 Glazes
06:27 Contrast
07:40 The branch
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Materials used:
5" x 7" canvas board
Liquitex basics paint
Reference photo: Pixabay

Пікірлер: 13

@jonienelson2888 Жыл бұрын

Can’t tell which one is the reference photo and your painting at the end! 🧐 Awesome job!!! WOWEE!!!

@zaratomsart Жыл бұрын

Thank you =). It was a really fun painting to create from a lovely reference photograph :D

@maryif6881 Жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial , what brand is the round brush ?

@AlTorresFineArt Жыл бұрын

great

@zaratomsart Жыл бұрын

Thank you =)

@sarahortizgil4161 Жыл бұрын

What do you do the sketch with? (The white lines)

@zaratomsart Жыл бұрын

For this I have used white transfer paper. If I free hand something I will also still use transfer paper. I'll freehand on a normal piece of printer paper and make my corrections on that to make sure it's accurate and then use transfer paper to transfer that sketch to my canvas. Canvas doesn't eraser pencil marks well so this keeps everything neat and tidy.

@jessh6031 11 ай бұрын

Awesome work😍 Question... How to tell what colour to choose on first layer of painting the body of that bird? Is there a technique for it? I'm sort of struggling on that part and I usually go straight to the colours I see which are the details or the top layers😔🤔 TIA

@zaratomsart 11 ай бұрын

Thank you =). For the first layer I don't focus on mixing the right colour at all. I just go for something that represents the darkest value in that area. My main aim for layer 1 is to hide the background colour. You want to ideally be leaving the lightest colours/details until last. They are sitting on top of everything else so they need to be added for later layers =)