Botanical leaf in watercolour : ivy. Painting leaves can be a hurdle, not least because they can seem like a fairly dull subject to paint compared with the centre of focus in a wildlife painting – the beautiful wild animal or bird! Leaves may be added simply to finish a wildlife watercolour painting but without the same enthusiasm in the rest of the wildlife composition, the leaves may turn out to be a disappointment to the overall painting and even let the whole work of art down to render it a wasted effort. Botanical watercolours for realistic wildlife paintings. A botanical watercolour artist seeks to capture the tiny details that give leaves their individuality but if that isn’t your cup of tea, there are other ways to make sure the leaves are painted to as good a standard as possible. For a wildlife artist, knowing that the leaves form part of the natural world of shelter and food for the wildlife that lives in it can entirely change the approach to painting leaves; they are ...
British Wildlife Watercolours. British wildlife, birds and flowers are carefully painted using watercolours, based on the wildlife and botanical subjects from the garden and local woods. Wildlife such as small British woodland animals (badgers, foxes, squirrels, mice, bats, deer, otters, wild cats, stoats, weasels - even wild boar, pine martens, beavers and, one day, lynx may return to the wilds of Britain!) and UK garden birds, butterflies and bees, along with ladybirds and dragonflies, add to the joys to be found in the garden, or just beyond, all year round. Watercolours can be used to capture the beauty in the animal or plant subject using the fluidity of the paints. Everyone's favourite! A beautiful owl resting amongst the bluebells. British Wildlife Watercolours : Watercolour Owl and Bluebell British Wildlife Watercolours : Watercolour Bird Painting of a Sparrow and Worm Watercolours can be used in a variety of wildlife paintings for different effects bas...