Watercolor lesson "Peacock"

Peacock.

Elements of drawing:

A straight line, curved line

 Forms:  a circle, an oval

Materials:

A large flat brush to paint the large areas of the picture,

a small round brush for details.

Paint: Watercolor

The knowledge that were obtained earlier:

Primary colors - red, blue, yellow.

Secondary colors: orange, green, purple.

Transparent layer - adding a lot of water, a little paint.

An opaque layer – less water, more paint.

The lesson:

A. Make a sketch of a peacock. We divide the image into basic shapes. The body is bigger oval,  head - smaller, the beak - a triangle. Draw the neck slightly curved lines. The tail is formed by outline the lines radiating like a fan behind the body,  the "eyes" on the tail of a peacock  look  like ovals. Make sure that lines of sketch are light. 

B. Body, head and neck peacock paint over the dark blue paint (more paint, less water), all the space around should be transparent blue. Leave the ovals on tail none painted. Leave to dry.

C. While the first layer of paint dries. Refresh the knowledge of the basic and derived colors. We recall the properties of transparency (demonstration of transparent plastic circles in primary colors. Superimpose on each other and look through them - what color turned out).

D. Go back to the drawing - the entire space around the body of a peacock, including ovals, causes yellow (a lot of water, a little paint). Ovals have to be yellow, and the tail - green. Dried.

E. Red (a lot of water, a little paint)  circles were added to “eyes” on the tail. The color should change to orange. Leave the picture to dry. 

 F. Add details with round brush.

                                           The picture from Calgary Zoo is our inspiration.