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

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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/poem...

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YOU MIGHT ENJOY THESE ADDITIONAL TUTORIALS:

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