Bird Painting Workshop, Tuesdays
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Welcome to the Bird Painting Workshop!

Intro Video (length: 4:59 min)
Course Overview
Video: Materials list, detailed discussion (length: 38:37 min)
Bird Painting Materials List
Frequently Asked Questions
Dates and link to the live classes
Link to the class recordings
Resources and References

Bird Anatomy folder
Bird Photo Reference Library
Contemporary Birds Paintings
Historical Bird Paintings
Module 1

What you'll learn:
Day 1

Delayed 1 days

Inspiration: Birds in Ancient Egyptian Art
Exercise: draw an imaginary bird
Day 2

Delayed 2 days

Inspiration: Leonardo Da Vinci's "Codex on the Flight of Birds"
Exercise: study bird anatomy
Day 3

Delayed 3 days

Inspiration: Bird drawings by Parmigianino
Exercise: graphite thumbnail studies
Day 4

Delayed 4 days

Inspiration: bird painting of the Medici Court
Exercise: thumbnail studies using ink
Day 5

Delayed 5 days

Inspiration: bird paintings of the Song Dynasty
Exercise: tonal bird studies
Day 6

Delayed 6 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Pierre Eskrich
Exercise: a monochromatic study on toned paper
Module 2

Delayed 6 days

What you'll learn:
Day 7

Delayed 7 days

Inspiration: "The Concourse of the Birds" by Habiballah of Sava
Exercise: quick studies from life
Day 8

Delayed 8 days

🎨 Inspiration: Albrecht Durer's Birds
🦉 Exercise: begin your master copy
Day 9

Delayed 9 days

Inspiration: "The Goldfinch" by Carel Fabritius
Exercise: build your lights and shadows
Video: "Little Owl" demo, part II (extended, length: 15:11)
Day 10

Delayed 10 days

Inspiration: the birds of Hieronymous Bosch
What to do today: finish your master copy
"Little Owl" demo, part III (extended, length: 01:33:04)
Day 11

Delayed 11 days

Inspirartion: bird paintings by John Ruskin
Exercise: begin a feather painting
Video: Feather demo, part I (extended, length: 11:50)
Day 12

Delayed 12 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Eliza Turck
Exercise: add color to your feather
Video: Feather demo, part II (extended, length: 1:47:03)
Day 13

Delayed 13 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Kitagawa Utamaro
Exercise: take what you've learned for an adventure!
Module 3

Delayed 13 days

What you'll learn:
Video lecture: Birds in Contemporary Art (length: 21:40)
Video: Introduction to Color Theory (length: 7:58)
Day 14

Delayed 14 days

Inspiration: bird drawings by Henry Emerson Tuttle
Exercise: an underdrawing for your next painting.
Video: Mixed media demo, part I (extended, length: 52:14 min)
Day 15

Delayed 15 days

Inspiration: "Birds of America" by John James Audubon
Exercise: seal your drawing with ink
Video: Mixed Media Demo, part II (extended, length: 09:01min)
Day 16

Delayed 16 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Elizabeth Gould
Exercise: focus on lights and shadows
Mixed Media Demo, part III (extended, 17:00 min)
Day 17

Delayed 17 days

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)
Day 18

Delayed 18 days

Inspiration: bird prints by Janet Turck
Exercise: glazing with watercolor
Video: Mixed Media Demo, part V (extended, length: 12:33 min)
Exercise (oil) - establish your drawing
Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part I (extended, length: 10:50min), oil painting
Day 19

Delayed 19 days

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
Day 20

Delayed 20 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Sarah Margaret Gibson
Exercise (watercolor): - work on your edges
Video: Mixed media technique demo, part VII (extended, length: 14:49min)
Exercise (oil): paint on top of your dead coloring layer
Video: Dead Coloring Demo, part III (extended, length: 39:44 min), oil painting
Day 21

Delayed 21 days

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
Module 4

Delayed 21 days

What you'll learn:
Day 22

Delayed 22 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Greg Oakley
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)
Day 23

Delayed 23 days

Inspiration: bird paintings by Vanessa Foley
Exercise: water media - establish local color
Video: painting on vellum demo, part I (extended, length: 14:34 min)
Video: 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
Day 24

Delayed 24 days

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
Day 25

Delayed 25 days

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
Day 26

Delayed 26 days

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
Day 27

Delayed 27 days

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
Day 28

Delayed 28 days

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
Day 29

Delayed 29 days

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
Day 30

Delayed 30 days

Inspiration :"Bird by Bird" by Dina Brodsky
Exercise: celebrate!
Thank You!

Delayed 31 days

Farewell
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Inspiration: bird paintings by Vanessa Foley

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