How To Paint A Watercolour Waxwing Bird!

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Our intro music is a bit loud but it only lasts a minute and a half and you can turn on captions if you need to hear me. Ant says sorry! Our nephews were staying and he was a bit distracted!

[@nancydavidson4899]

Yes, visiting nephews can do that 😂

[@nancydavidson4899]

Beautiful ❤

[@MarcellHobbs]

No worries!

[@lstandish9]

Oh, Ant!

[@whatseriously1]

Made me laugh 😂❤❤❤

[@annehebert6959]

I love Waxwings. Here, where I live in Manitoba I get to see them for only a couple days every February. My neighbour has some trees with berries and every February - hundreds of Waxwings descend for just a few days and gobble up all the berries on the trees and whatever has landed on the ground - and then - they are gone again until next year. What a wonderful sight it is...I could sit and watch them all day while they eat. Thank you Harriet for sharing this with us.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Wow that sounds wonderful. They are so beautiful! I think we have the Bohemian waxwing which is more like this painting but the Cedar could be achieved very easily by following this tutorial and tweaking the colours.

[@theroadhome_Liz_Summers]

Lovely!!! I get many migrating birds passing through my home in NW Montana US. Thank goodness for the internet for identification! I do have a book also :)

[@stsalik]

Terrific instruction! I've always found birds difficult to paint because of the featherwork. Your step by step instructions worked!

[@lindakuck5981]

Ive never seen a waxwing bird he's beautiful! Thanks Harriet 😊❤

[@amandastratton8242]

That is a really beautiful painting Harriet, thank you so much for sharing the Waxwing with us xx

[@deWintonPaperCo]

My pleasure 😊

[@andreag601]

Thank you for showing us how to draw the bird in, and that I can see it well. Sometimes when I'm watching watercolor tutorials, I can't see the drawings they're doing well enough to follow the tutorial. I'm going to try this one.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you so much 😀

[@cathygraetz7229]

Harriet, your waxwing is lovely! I’m going to tweak the colours slightly to paint our local cedar waxwing. Thanks for all your inspiration!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Sounds great! Yes I think this is a Bohemian waxwing

[@carlaeskelsen]

​@@deWintonPaperCo Aahh! Yes! That would explain why it doesn't look quite like our Cedar Waxwings! It's a lovely tutorial, though, thank you. I too will try to tweak it a bit to look more like our beloved local Cedar Waxwings (Northern Utah) I've never painted a bird before! Scary, but exciting!

[@carriep.8997]

I enjoyed painting the Waxwing. I had a flock of them stop in my yard last year here in North Carolina. I had never seen so many before.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Very cool!

[@rebeccap.simmons4244]

Can’t get enough of,your birds. Love the addition of the berries.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Glad you like them!

[@rosemariecooke9616]

Love this!

[@blodwin1972]

Excellent tutorial! You make them look so easy! I’m really chuffed with my end product today! Thank you so much! 😃🙏🏻😃

[@deWintonPaperCo]

You are so welcome!

[@ChantelleArts]

gorgeous piece, such a good tutorial ☺☺☺

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@theroadhome_Liz_Summers]

I am loving the commentary about brush strokes: angle of brush, what/why . As I am sometimes redoing some tutorials and also looking at older videos, I am paying more attention to the brush angle. Very helpful to me as a very new watercolor painter - Thank you!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mahirakhan-rea9625]

this was sooooo much fun and your quality of teaching is getting better and better... thank you ever so much.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Aaaaah thanks Mahira. I’ll never forget painting that little bluetit with you in France. It really helped loosen up my painting of birds

[@Carina-2906]

Dear Harriet, Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. What an delightful painting! I really love the end result!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@lyndaranson1728]

Thank you so much! I love the waxing and you did such a beautiful job❤

[@deWintonPaperCo]

You are so welcome!

[@milenabdesign]

I love watercolor birds! Yours are just divine!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks Milena!

[@rcdowding]

Ordered the book. Thanks Harriet. I’d love to be in Devon, alas I live in Australia.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Id love to be in Australia! Thanks for your purchase!

[@jackitoth6190]

Lovely tutorial, wish I could be with you on 17th. Hopefully will be able to on the next one.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Next time!

[@maryingram3249]

My favorite bird! Thanks for such great tutorials. Wish I could be in Devon …maybe next time!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Next time!

[@artgeometrix6346]

The level of detail in this is just perfect. I like the sense of motion you captured here too. Very good work indeed.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you very much!

[@peterwillis4239]

Wonderful waxwing watercolour, well done. Thanks for the painting tips. 👍

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@carolbarnard8906]

Stunning

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ligiacerqueira1721]

So, so lovely!

[@leebrashear9821]

Fabulous! Thanks!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

You're welcome!

[@finlear3320]

Wow Harriet 😊

[@dhags5]

Love the Cedar Waxwing! When walking here in the states - they fly in "flocks" to the berries on the trees especially in early winter!! Love to here their calls! This is beautiful and will certainly give it a try!! Thank you for your time and talent! :0)

[@deWintonPaperCo]

They are so beautiful! I think we have the Bohemian waxwing which is more like this painting but the Cedar could be achieved very easily by following this tutorial and tweaking the colours.

[@whatseriously1]

Beautiful 😍

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@lucychild2445]

This is such a stunning painting. Can you give more detail of your bird painting class in Devon please - I cant see anything in the episode notes. I’d love to come along and paint with you. Thanks 😁🙏

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Ah Lucy! Yes here is the link to the class! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watercolour-birds-workshop-with-harriet-de-winton-tickets-808910341607?aff=oddtdtcreator

[@lindathaxton1994]

Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks for watching Linda!

[@conniemesce4093]

Beautiful, I love birds! ❤

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Thanks for visiting

[@johnsalamone3152]

❤Gorgeous!!!!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks so much!

[@martingrotsch4676]

So beautiful 👍🏻

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks so much!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

This painting is all about the brushes! If you would like to use the exact same brushes I'm using just head to my etsy store where you can also find signed copies of my books with plenty more birds! dewintonpaperco.etsy.com

[@mariem5990]

Beautiful !! Thank you

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you too!

[@tributetomama]

Really beautiful.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@whichwitchhazel]

Beautiful xx

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@berolinastrassmann]

This was so lovely to watch -the effect is really amazing. Any update on the fundraising? I hope it was very successful!

[@wilmadriessen2034]

Bedankt

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks Wilma! You are so kind

[@cindybohl9593]

I could watch you paint all day! You are such a wonderful artist! Can we order off your Etsy shop in the USA ?

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Yes you can, we ship internationally no problem! dewintonpaperco.etsy.com

[@bnhietala]

Any more detail and he'd fly off the page! He's GORGEOUS!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks so much! And he's fairly simple considering how other birds need lots of detail

[@pegsmith8401]

Brilliant painting. I am unable to get buff titanium and moonglow here in Australia. They are definitely by Windsor and Newton??

[@karencooper2177]

I know the titanium buff they say you can mix your own. Check on the internet for mixing it. The Moonglow here where I live I have only found mail order from Blick arts. They are a U.S. Company and I don't know if they ship overseas. I'm going to try and check if there is a mixing table for Moonglow.

[@pegsmith8401]

@@karencooper2177 thankyou very much for all your info. Its much appreciated.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

The ones I'm using are by Daniel Smith

[@JGSewell]

This might sound a little funny but I just got this idea watching you paint this bird. Have you heard of the bird Buddy bird feeder? It’s a bird feeder with a camera and there’s an app that you download and can see all the different birds that come to your feeder. I think the app can also tell you what the type of name of the birds are. I was thinking of getting one and just thought, it would be cool if you had one and then painted the different birds you get visiting your feeder lol. It’s probably a silly idea but it just popped in my head and I thought that would maybe be something cool to do if anyone had the feeder. 😊

[@deWintonPaperCo]

I love that! Funnily enough we've positioned all our birdfeeders to be easily visible from our windows and because we work from home we get to see them all day. I'd love a proper close up image though.

[@mahirakhan-rea9625]

btw waXWINGS WERE JUST IN MY TREE!!!!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

No way!!!

[@barbaracallan7672]

❤

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@donnastokes496]

This is just beyond 😍 shame re the music!.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

It won’t happen again!

[@schuhujin5019]

To talk about your music. It is not only disturbing when it is too load. It is also annoying when it is more silent, because you only hear the accent sonds (I can't find a better English word). I always look around whether some bell is ringing in my room. But I love your loose style of animal painting.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Good to know!

[@krissaltlakecity9022]

love this! Signal music too loud, downing out Harriet. Had me saying, knock it off Ant!

[@deWintonPaperCo]

I know! We had a little tech mistake in the edit

[@janetlundstedt4649]

Music is way too loud, i can not hear you.. so didnt watch.. ;-(

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Yes Janet, this one we had the volume wrongly up for the first minute and a half. Then it stops so dont worry. We flagged it in our pinned comment

[@janetlundstedt4649]

thank you- will go back and finish.. Love your techniques and thank you for your videos..

[@karencooper2177]

The music is so loud you can't hear her.

[@deWintonPaperCo]

Yes sorry! Ant forgot to turn it down.

[@klea6133]

Read the explanation and the apology! Try to be a little understanding. We are all human and subject to mistakes…Right?

[@karencooper2177]

It was a comment because I couldn't hear her.

[@karencooper2177]

Thank you! I love your videos! I've learned so much I don't want to miss a single word!