Bold & Beautiful: Backyard Wildlife in Watercolor with Susan Bourdet
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Bold & Beautiful: Backyard Wildlife in Watercolor with Susan Bourdet
Wildlife painter and print artist Susan Bourdet develops her painting from concept to signature. She demonstrates • tips on photographing wildlife • how to create luminous wet-into-wet backgrounds • dry brush weathered wood • knot holes and nails • use of gouache to add sunlit sparkle • spattering • how to achieve depth while maintaining the illusion of soft feathering • and a cascade of delicate vibrant flowers.This DVD compresses an extended process into 75 information-packed minutes with short cuts, product tips and safe guards.
02m 08s
1. Collecting Great Ideas
01m 16s
2. Editing Your Material
04m 14s
5. Applying Masking Fluid
04m 02s
8. Susan's Color Selections
00m 46s
10. Removing Masking Fluid
00m 49s
11. Masking the Flowers
01m 07s
14. Removal of Masking Fluid
05m 08s
15. Adding Details to the Wood
06m 15s
16. The Gold Finch
08m 18s
17. The Beak and Feet
01m 18s
20. Final Stages and Evaluation
00m 57s
21. The Signature
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About The Artist:
Susan Bourdet
“I have always sought wild places, feeling that nature is central to my way of life.” says Susan Bourdet about her childhood. In her watercolor paintings, Bourdet enjoys contrasting soft-edged, luminous background areas with delicately detailed birds and animals.
Susan Bourdet's watercolor DVD workshops show you how to produce beautiful wildlife paintings in your own backyard with mastery of life-like details and complicated scenes. “No piece of my art has ever seemed complete to me without an element that could fly or dart from the page.”
Bourdet moved with her family to Oregon in 1974 and discovered the beauty of watercolor painting quickly thereafter. Susan's career as a professional artist really begin in 1980, when she was raising her two children and...
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