GREY FANTAIL LESSON – Online Painting Tutorial In Watercolour
GREY FANTAIL LESSON – Online Painting Tutorial In Watercolour
Welcome to this month’s painting lesson! I’m so happy to bring you another beautiful bird painting lesson, capturing the Grey Fantail as our subject. This is a delicate and subtle bird that challenges us, as many bird subjects do, to create life and character exploring only the quietest shifts of tone, colour, and texture in our watercolour paintings.
This tutorial is all about subtlety, learning to refine your washes, control your tones, and capture realism without relying on bold colour to tell the story for you. It’s a gentle, thoughtful exploration of colour, brush control, observation, and balance to create a wonderful learning exercise in realistic bird painting for you.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
✨ Subtlety – Bring more muted subjects to life with subtle colour and delicate tonal control.
🎨 Strategic Painting – Learn how to deconstruct and reconstruct more complex areas in a manageable way.
🖌️ Refined Technique – Practice your finer line work, refined edges, and brush control.
🌿 Texture & Structure – Capture areas of delicate plumage, lively eyes, and a well connected beak beautifully.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
👀 Improved Linework and Brush Control
✨ Learn to Capture Subtlety in your Story and Techniques
👍 Better Understand Strategic Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Complex Areas
⭐️ Improved Confidence and Painting Skills Overall
WHY JOIN?
This lesson is perfect for painters wanting to refine their touch, build confidence, and improve their realistic watercolour and bird painting skills. It’s a calming, rewarding study that deepens your understanding of our subject and medium.
COURSE FEATURES
✅ In Depth, Step-by-step video guidance
✅ Learn at your own pace
✅ Share your work in our Facebook Student Group
Our heartfelt thanks to Phillip Start for his beautiful reference image, and to you for joining me again on this creative journey.
Happy painting everyone — I’ll see you in the wash!
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Check out these links for more information
Get started on the GREY FANTAIL painting tutorial
See this painting in short time lapse (Patreon)
Watch the course introduction clip
Did you know, the SACRED KINGFISHER painting tutorial is just one of a range of bird painting, botanical illustration and natural history studies in my own realistic watercolour painting style on offer? Why not check out what else is available. Theres lots on offer and we’d love to see you there!
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