HOW TO PAINT A REALISTICE RACCOON IN OILS with Suzanne Barrett Justis
I love to experiment with color. Playing with Cadmium Greens and Turquoise in unexpected places like in a raccoons fur can make a painting more lively. In today's wildlife painting tutorial, I will be painting a raccoon up a tree with brilliant greens in the canopy, creating lots of fun reflective light. You will learn how to paint fur. You will learn how to paint reflective light. You will learn how to paint tree bark and you will learn how to paint a raccoon. This is where the best oil painting tutorials are located to help you learn to paint realistic wildlife and I will not only show you how to paint realistic wildlife paintings, but I will show you how to paint realistic animals for beginners easy!! This painting tutorial is for beginners as well as more advanced painters. The same painting techniques are for painting elk in acrylics as well as in oils.
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Chapters
00:00 Let's paint a green raccoon. The palette
04:00 Blocking in the raccoon
13:00 Starting on detail in ear
18:00 Let's do eyes
30:00 The nose
40:00 The other eye
51:00 Fine hair in chest
1:00:00 Fine detail in hand and head
1:10:00 The bark
1:16:00 Whiskers
1:20:00 The final piece and the final word
I generally use Rosemary and Company paint brushes and will include the link here for your consideration
https://www.rosemaryandco.com?u=5711a7
one of the brush I used for the most was a Synthetic Shiraz pointed round or rigger, as well as two filberts, the number 5 and 8, I will also leave you the link to the brush here. It is a very versatile brush, and you can see that if was able to do everything I asked of it in this painting tutorial
https://www.rosemaryandco.com/oil-brushes/shiraz-oils?u=5711a7
The little miniature short handled brushes I used to do the fine FINE details was the Workbench Warrior Set from Rosemary and Co. Check them out!!! I love these brushes.
https://www.rosemaryandco.com/workbench-warrior-set
I also used several of the Eclipse long Filberts of various sizes, you can find them here
https://www.rosemaryandco.com/oil-brushes/eclipse-long-longer-filberts?u=5711a7
and Ivory long filberts, my " work horse brush" I love them.
https://www.rosemaryandco.com/ivory-longer-filberts?u=5711a7
and you know how I love my Ivory Daggers for creating long flowing lines, like in hair and tall grasses and in tree branches etc...here is the link
https://www.rosemaryandco.com/ivory-daggers?u=5711a7
I often use the Creative Mark Wipe Out Tool....I love these things. Here's the link so you can get one ( or 10 ) of them too.
https://www.jerrysartarama.com/amazing-wipe-off-tool
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