Animal Portraits in Watermedia

Capture your pet’s personality with watermedia artist Pat Weaver, FWS. Pat’s direct painting approach and limited palette help you strip away distractions and work fast on fur, whiskers, feathers, and other eye-catching textures. In this workshop you’ll complete five watercolor and acrylic paintings on a variety of surfaces, so you’re sure to find the right combination for all your favorite animals. Pat emphasizes shape relationships as she draws from photographs. Whether she uses dot-to-line sketching or a direct approach, you’ll have clear views of her reference material throughout the workshop. She makes the most of her limited palette by carefully managing moisture. You’ll learn to control value by balancing fresh pigment and water, and Pat’s color-mixing shortcuts help you create anything from bright red to black in seconds. Pat simplifies animal painting with judicious brushwork. You’ll create convincing fur without painting individual strands, and you’ll layer color to allow glowing hints of your underpainting to peek through. This workshop will teach you to see your pets in a new light!