Painting black and white feather, fur, or textures can be trying to make them look alive and vibrate with colour. In this tutorial learn how to add life to B&W and have to break up and then render high detailed water. We then finish off the tutorial with added a few reeds to break up our composition and to add depth.
In part one of this loon painting we mix our base colours and then block in the board using blends to create a gradation.
In part two we concentrate on building up the shape and form in the loons head and add initial detail.
In part two we move on to the body building space and form. We then learn how to create the spotted pattern and how to vary the values to create shape.
