Black Watercolor - How to Paint Black Fur (Step-by-Step)

Learn how to use black watercolor and particularly how to use it for painting realistic black fur on animals and insects.

I use a variety of demonstrations and an actual tutorial where I am painting black spots on a leopard to break down the process into easy stages. Many watercolorists will choose to avoid using black paint, or they may mix their own. I embrace black but I too will do some mixing so that the color is not too flat but looks more lifelike and realistic.

If you found this video useful and would like to see me painting black feathers can I suggest you watch this video next:    • How to Paint a Bird - Osprey in Water...   where you will see me add the final details to the black feathers on an Osprey.

🕒 Timestamps 🕒 How to paint black fur / Using black watercolor
00:00 How I have used black in some of my wildlife watercolour paintings
00:43 Looking at the different tonal values within black watercolor
03:10 The differences between ivory black and lamp black watercolour pans
06:35 Using the glazing technique
08:46 Enriching and adding vibrancy to black paint
12:51 Laying down the foundation layers for painting black fur
15:15 Painting the first layers of fur detail
20:07 Using a size 00 brush to add the finer fur details
24:00 Using watercolour white to add highlights and tonal differences to the black paint
26:56 Painting black spots on a leopard
30:51 Animal paintings where I have used black watercolor

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