Welcome!

In this course, you will learn how to paint this Siamese cat in watercolor. I hope you will find the techniques, steps, and colors helpful in your own painting!

• Scroll lower for an overview of the lessons and resources.
• Throughout this course, I encourage you to make decisions based on your vision for your painting. Use as much or as little of the lessons and drawing as you need. If you lose focus, take a break. You will return with fresh eyes!
• Creating a detailed and realistic painting like this does take time, but when you enjoy the process it's inspiring and a lot of fun. Allow yourself the freedom to experiment and learn from your experiences, because that's how we grow.

I’d love to hear how it goes and invite you to share your painting along with challenges, solutions, and suggestions.

• Take a photo and share in the Community.
• Share your painting in our Facebook Group, Realistic Animals in Watercolor.
• In addition, upload your painting to your Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter - all of your favorite places with the hashtag #rebeccarhodesart. By sharing, you are inspiring others to get started!

I hope you enjoy the course!

OVERVIEW OF LESSONS

It's helpful to see an overview of the process - the big picture!

Lessons 1 and 1: Create the Eyes, Nose

Lessons 3, 4: Create the Ears

Lesson 5: Foundational Colors - Create a pale map of colors, fur

Lesson 6: Establish what will be the darkest parts in the face

Lessons 7, 8: Establish the mid tones and lightest values in the face. By the end of lesson 8, we will have a map of values and colors in place. It may appear sloppy and not dark enough. Keep moving forward!

Lesson 9: Revisit dark, mid tone, lightest values, going darker overall.

Lesson 10: Repeat the process (darks, mid tones, lights) as we refine color and go darker.

Lesson 11: Refine the eyes, nose, ears

Lesson 12: Colors, fur, values in the body

Lesson 13:

Lesson 14: Final Refinements and Whiskers