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My project for course: Artistic Watercolor Techniques for Illustrating Birds

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This is my project for Sarah Stoke‘s watercolour birds course. I took it after the animal portrait course, so I allowed myself not to redo all the exercises and move forward to the final painting. But I really enjoyed going through the theory again with the videos to keep everything in mind. You are a great teacher, Sarah!

I did not feel like drawing many small birds and when I went through Unsplash to look for references I got hung up on that wonderful chicken and the blue reflections on it‘s feathers. I wish I would have managed to emphasise them even more. It turned out to be very tricky to not mix the blues and the yellows/oranges and turn it into a hot mess.

Over all I am very happy with it, especially with the punchy orange you taught how to mix in the other course!

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