Paint birds with me!! 🐦

Welcome back to my blog!! Today, I will be showing you how I paint or do my art because… I’m running out of topic ideas. Usually, this type of painting is the easier ones and most of my paintings are more detailed than these ones, so they usually take a while. And I want this blog to have a simple and quick style of painting. So here it is…

I start of by drawing the birds with pink colored led. I use the Pilot Dr. Grip color 0.7 mechanical pencil . I’m also using the Reeves A4 watercolor paper (medium surface).

2. Before painting, I lightly erase the sketches so that it doesn’t show up in the end result. I paint the birds using my “ Sakura Koi Watercolors Pocket Field Sketch Box -12”… yes, it has a very long name. I use a reference photo for drawing them and I usually don’t match the colors that well. For me,it doesn’t have to be exactly the same… it just has to look like a bird. And so does the colors; you don’t have to match them perfectly, just paint with the colors you think is best for you’re painting.

3. Now I know what you’re thinking (probably): where’s the contrast? Well… we’re still not done yet. From here, I start to use my Gelly roll white pen -0.8 that my friend got me and add highlights to the eyes. Then, I use my Snowman markers and start to color and trace some parts of the painting. The Snowman markers are nothing fancy and they’re really cheap, and colorful.

4. Now that the birds look more like birds instead of blobs of paint, I paint random circles and stuff to the background ( usually around the birds) to make the painting not so plain. You could add in anything you want onto the background.