Watercolor Feathers Three Easy Ways - How to Draw and Paint Feathers that Look Right Every Time

This project is an exploration of feathers in watercolor. I show you step by step how to draw and paint feathers using wet in wet and wet on dry techniques, plus adding details and embellishing with watercolor brush pens and gel pens. I also show you many other examples of colorful watercolor feathers which I painted in preparation for this video and some of which I plan to use in my junk journal. In all my watercolor tutorials, I show you a simple painting for beginners in detail and in real time. By painting along you will learn all the techniques you need to create amazing art. Your watercolor skills will improve quickly when you practice these easy paintings! Whether you want to paint bookmarks, greetings cards, embellishments for junk journals, gifts or ambitious landscapes, you’ll gain confidence and experience by trying my projects. Thanks to Pam at @ThePaperOutpost for her excellent beginners junk journal tutorials. 00:00 Introduction 00:34 My junk journal intro and flip through 05:26 My preparation work - practice feathers 10:21 Gift from the Sea sketchbook flip through 11:17 Drawing the first feather 14:02 Color palette 15:10 Painting the first feather wet in wet 23:04 Drawing the second feather 24:11 Painting the second feather wet in wet 29:25 Drawing the third feather 30:17 Painting the third feather wet in wet and wet on dry 36:00 Painting the second layer of the first two feathers 38:38 Demonstrating the lifting out technique 41:04 Embellishing the third feather ------------------- The Windhover BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover ------------- Get an overview of what we do here at Diane Antone Studio: https://linktr.ee/dianeantonestudio Shop My MERCH: https://merch.dianeantone.com Get BONUS CONTENT! Join my YouTube Membership: youtube.com/dianeantonestudio/join Join my Patreon: patreon.com/dianeantonestudio Check out my daily BLOG: www.dianeantone.com and download FREE traceable sketches for ALL my painting tutorials HERE: https://dianeantone.com/free-downloads/ --------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPLIES Browse all of my recommended supplies on my Amazon Storefront: https://amazon.com/shop/dianeantonestudio --------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MIGHT ENJOY THESE ADDITIONAL TUTORIALS: Gift from the Sea Series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVksoedXAAmdrMtQdDTGP6jy8mdMiPoyQ How to Paint a Feather Garland https://youtu.be/_e0c2bBE1W8 How to Paint a Realistic Feather in Loose Watercolor https://youtu.be/J9_lTsGf7Lo --------------------------------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH ME Visit the YouTube Community Tab here: https://www.youtube.com/DianeAntoneStudio/community Diane Antone Studio Private YouTube Members Group - for Members only https://www.facebook.com/groups/dianeantonestudiomembers Website: https://dianeantone.com for detailed information about materials and free sketch downloads Facebook Diane Antone Studio: https://www.facebook.com/dianeantonestudio Facebook Learn to Paint Watercolor Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnwatercolourpainting Facebook Learn to Paint Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnhowtopaint Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianeantonestudio Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dianeantonestudio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dianeantonestudio Tip Jar: https://tinyurl.com/xsus5b29 --------------------------------------------------------------- MY FAVOURITE SUPPLIES Etchr Sketch Book: https://amzn.to/3HNfPmX Black Tulip brush set: https://tinyurl.com/57j6f2n6 --------------------------------------------------------------- FAVOURITE SUPPLIERS BLICK ART SUPPLIES: https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100446988-11426230 JACKSONS ART: https://tinyurl.com/382t2mvv VIVIVA: https://tinyurl.com/y42jm6sa --- We use music from Epidemic Sound. Get 30 days free: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/69dvmu Diane Antone Studio makes a commission from sales made through the above links.* #dianeantonestudio #watercolor #art