Inspiration From the Garden in Watercolor with Susan Bourdet
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Inspiration From the Garden in Watercolor with Susan Bourdet
Learn from nature painter and print artist Susan Bourdet to create a painting from resources you have at home. You’ll see how to select and combine photographs, use masking fluid successfully, render luminous wet-into-wet backgrounds, layer brush work to create convincing fur texture, and use dry brush and salt texturing to portray the corroding metal of an old watering can. You will learn to systematically tackle complicated natural settings for charming results.
01m 05s
3. Other Materials
05m 26s
5. Paint on Paper
02m 30s
6. Practice Fur Ball
03m 48s
7. Setting Up the Painting
10m 34s
10. Painting the Background
01m 39s
11. Removing the Masking
08m 17s
12. The Watering Can
07m 15s
13. Additional Watering Can Texture
00m 27s
14. Masking the Flowers Near the Cat
10m 46s
15. Beginning the Cat
08m 30s
17. The Cat's Body
01m 46s
18. Adding Whites
04m 27s
20. Yellow Flowers
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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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