painting a swan in watercolour

 

watercolour swan

It's a while since a tutorial for painting a bird. So here's a very graceful one - a beautiful, white swan. I've been wanting to paint a white swan for ages!

There's backlighting in the swan, which creates a wonderful glow. Backlighting gives us the opportunity to play with pretty shadow colours and I often look for backlighting when painting animals. Here we also have the still water and the reflection to set off the glowing light.

This is a full step by step tutorial on Patreon.

Happy painting!