TraditionalDeviants

Animals in Art Week I feel very honored to write the tutorial for you this time. My name is Erdbeerstern (https://www.deviantart.com/erdbeerstern) and today I'm gonna show you how to paint a realistic traditional bird with watercolors. I tried to keep it as simple as I could, hope you'll enjoy! What you need: Two brushes. Small and middle sized, I used a 'da vinci' brush in size 2 & a 'van gogh' brush in size 6. A pencil for the draft is also needed! You also need a cup of water :bug: For this tutorial we won't need a lot of colors, don't worry if you don't have  a big palette. We'll only need 4-5 different colors. As you can see I used the van Gogh ones but don't

GENERAL * If you draw or paint on a table, keep a paper tissue under your drawing hand to keep the oils in your skin from transferring to the paper (this happens even if you've just washed your hands), which may keep the pigments from being properly absorbed in some places. DRAWING * To check for errors in your sketch, especially those relating to symmetry, rotate your canvas and place it on each of its sides, step away and look at it. Also, take a photo or scan it, and do a horizontal flip on the image with your computer. * To easily transfer your sketch onto watercolor paper, board, wood, or other surface, color the back side of your ske