• Intro Video (length: 4:59 min)

• Course Overview

• Video: Materials list, detailed discussion (length: 38:37 min)

• Bird Painting Materials List

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Bird Anatomy folder

• Bird Photo Reference Library

• Contemporary Birds Paintings

• Historical Bird Paintings

• What you'll learn:

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• Inspiration: Birds in Ancient Egyptian Art

• Video: a bird in 3 lines (length: 2:59 min)

• Exercise: draw an imaginary bird

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• Inspiration: Leonardo Da Vinci's "Codex on the Flight of Birds"

• Video: Bird Anatomy (length: 11:33)

• Exercise: study bird anatomy

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• Inspiration: Bird drawings by Parmigianino

• Exercise: graphite thumbnail studies

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• Inspiration: bird painting of the Medici Court

• Exercise: thumbnail studies using ink

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• Inspiration: bird paintings of the Song Dynasty

• Exercise: tonal bird studies

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Pierre Eskrich

• Exercise: a monochromatic study on toned paper

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• What you'll learn:

• Video: Birds Through the Ages (length: 55:44 min)

• Video: Introduction to the dry brush technique (5:19)

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• Inspiration: "The Concourse of the Birds" by Habiballah of Sava

• Exercise: quick studies from life

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• 🎨 Inspiration: Albrecht Durer's Birds

• 🦉 Exercise: begin your master copy

• Video: "Little Owl" demo (length: 14:20)

• Video: "Little Owl" demo, part I (extended, length:18:59)

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• Inspiration: "The Goldfinch" by Carel Fabritius

• Exercise: build your lights and shadows

• Video: "Little Owl" demo, part II (extended, length: 15:11)

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• Inspiration: the birds of Hieronymous Bosch

• What to do today: finish your master copy

• "Little Owl" demo, part III (extended, length: 01:33:04)

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• Inspirartion: bird paintings by John Ruskin

• Exercise: begin a feather painting

• Video: Feather Painting Demo

• Video: Feather demo, part I (extended, length: 11:50)

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Eliza Turck

• Exercise: add color to your feather

• Video: Feather demo, part II (extended, length: 1:47:03)

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Kitagawa Utamaro

• Exercise: take what you've learned for an adventure!

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• What you'll learn:

• Video lecture: Birds in Contemporary Art (length: 21:40)

• Video: Introduction to Color Theory (length: 7:58)

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• Inspiration: bird drawings by Henry Emerson Tuttle

• Video: Watercolor demo: mixed media technique (length: 12:46 min)

• Exercise: an underdrawing for your next painting.

• Video: Mixed media demo, part I (extended, length: 52:14 min)

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• Inspiration: "Birds of America" by John James Audubon

• Exercise: seal your drawing with ink

• Video: Mixed Media Demo, part II (extended, length: 09:01min)

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Elizabeth Gould

• Exercise: focus on lights and shadows

• Mixed Media Demo, part III (extended, 17:00 min)

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Martin Johnson Heade

• Exercise: add details to your mixed media bird painting

• Video: Mixed Media Demo, part IV (extended, length: 30.06 min)

• If you're switching to oil paint: prepare your support

• Video: Preparing a toned surface for oil painting (length: 1:33)

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• Inspiration: bird prints by Janet Turck

• Exercise: glazing with watercolor

• Video: Mixed Media Demo, part V (extended, length: 12:33 min)

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part I (length: 5:48) -oil painting

• Exercise (oil) - establish your drawing

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part I (extended, length: 10:50min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Walton Ford

• Exercise (watercolor): continue glazing

• Video: Mixed Media Demo, part VI (extended, length: 19:49 min)

• Exercise (oil): - establish your dead coloring

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part II (extended, length: 15:42 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Sarah Margaret Gibson

• Exercise (watercolor): - work on your edges

• Video: Mixed media technique demo, part VII (extended, length: 14:49min)

• Video: Dead coloring demo, part II (length: 19:08), oil painting

• Exercise (oil): paint on top of your dead coloring layer

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part III (extended, length: 39:44 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Wade Schuman

• Exercise (watercolor): finish your mixed media bird

• Video: Mixed media technique demo, part VIII (extended, length: 14:35 min)

• Exercise (oil): background and edges

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part IV (extended, length: 31:54 min), oil painting

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• What you'll learn:

• Video: Glazing

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Greg Oakley

• Gouache on Vellum Demo

• Exercise (watercolor): begin your bird on vellum

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part I (extended, length: 32:50 min)

• Exercise (oil painting): glaze and add detail

• Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part V (extended, length: 26:37)

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Vanessa Foley

• Exercise: water media - establish local color

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part I (extended, length: 14:34 min)

• Oil painting: Venetian painting technique, part I (length: 7:09)

• Exercise (oil) - begin a bird using the Venetian painting technique

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part I (extended, length: 32:26 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Laura Kennedy

• Exercise (watercolor): continue your vellum painting

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part III (extended, length: 21:27 min)

• Exercise (oil): paint into your lights

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part II (extended, length: 10:21 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird drawings by Tyler Vouros

• Exercise (watercolor): continue your vellum painting

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part IV (extended, length: 47:58 min)

• Exercise (oil): work on your lights and midtones

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part III (extended, length: 12:27 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Shae Warnick

• Exercise (watercolor): glazing and hatching with dry brush

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part V (extended, length: 1:32:10 min)

• Venetian Painting Technique, Continued (Falcon)

• Exercise (oil)- work on your bird's head

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part IV (extended, length: 12:09 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Vasilisa Romanenko

• Exercise (watercolor): work on the details

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part VI (extended, length: 31:14 min)

• Exercise (oil painting)- begin your details

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part V (extended, length: 11:33 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paintings by Lindsay Kustuch

• Exercise (watercolor) - add opaque highlights

• Video: painting on vellum demo, part VII (extended, length: 24:21 min)

• Exercise (oil painting) - glaze

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part VI (extended, length: 23:57 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration: bird paper sculptures by Nayan Shrimali and Venus Vaishali

• Exercise: refine your edges and focus on details

• Video: painting on vellum, part I (extended, length: 21:35 min)

• Video: Venetian painting technique, part IV (extended, length: 30.24 min), oil painting

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• Inspiration :"Bird by Bird" by Dina Brodsky

• Exercise: celebrate!

• Farewell

• Stay in touch!

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