Free Art Lesson : Paint Believable Birds. SHAWN DELL JOYCE.

[@darlenelaursen6856]

This is sooo great! Thank you for sharing. It looks like so much fun!!! Again, Thank YOU!!!

[@mitchellsaler]

It is great to see Shawn Dell Joyce. The pastel is beautiful! Adding a bird to a painting is fantastic. I added one to one of my paintings recently. I enjoyed the wonderful presentation.

[@joysingh4602]

Joy from California. Thank you for your kind tips! Excellent instruction 👍

[@sharonbroadrick5341]

Learning a very important skill! Thank you

[@kaygilbert8773]

Learning so much, I never dreamed to use these steps and colors

[@RANDALLBRIGGS]

Great instruction and much fun!

[@sandirunge4841]

Great help for scale. I’m familiar with pastels but she’s delightful ty

[@1124ms]

Very nice. It takes practice and the use of theory of light on objects as she shared. Appreciated the tips here.

[@judithobelnycki1807]

Very helpful pointers! Thank you.

[@patsymccown2766]

Awesome Tutorial!

[@joanneruppen1141]

Beautiful

[@bethjames1088]

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

[@artieross9537]

Hello from beautiful Arizona! 🌵 Great information. Thank you!

[@CherylDumelow]

What great instruction.Thank you

[@dawnfisher7174]

Perfect! I've been wanting to paint our Colorado pelicans!

[@elizabethvcaffrey6353]

Amazing how you control your drawing with the piece of pastel such skill

[@Jeannine754]

This is awesome!

[@christinesniadach1493]

Great advice and tips!

[@marywittman7927]

Hi from Johnstown, Ohio. Looking forward improving my bird paintings.

[@shuvoDhar.5537]

❤❤

[@annehimebaugh5387]

Are you doing pastels over water painting

[@andreatorraca8755]

Have seen her work here in Dunedin!!!

[@pleinaire8698]

Beautiful pastel but I think that bird in flight is still too big …and lining it up with the bird in the water seems a bit too symmetrical!

[@payntpot7623]

Surely pumice and marble (calcium carbonate) are fillers, not binders? I would imagine some form of gum would be the binder and I suppose oil in oil pastels? It would not help beginners to be put wrong from the start with incorrect information. For us to understand and stay safe with the materials we use, we need correct information as to their ingredients. Personally, I would encourage people to experiment at mark making themselves, to discover what does and does not work. Isn't that how artists learn best? Thanks. I did learn some things, funnily enough, not what I expected.

[@bethjames1088]

Where do you study birds?

[@payntpot7623]

In the sky, perhaps? Go to the beach, or the local dump for seagulls. Watch pigeons in a city scape and sparrows. Go to swamps and marshes. Find a river. Go to a newly ploughed field. Birds surround us, be observant and you will learn about them.

[@artschoollive]

Historically a lot of artists used taxidermy as models. Often from local museums.

[@AaronSouza]

Not a fan of transferring a photo. I suppose it's fine in illustration...

[@maitev-p9582]

My understanding is that she transfered her own drawing of the bird, not a photo. If you create the sketch or drawing to be transferred, is it as meritorious as drawing directly?