Would you love to be able to paint AMAZINGBird Pictures?

In this course you will learn techniques to be able to paint these incredible bird pictures. When you're finished, you'll have the skills to be able to paint your own bird pictures too.

Pastel Pencils

It all starts with Pastel Pencils.

In my 30+ Years of Experience I have found that Pastel Pencils is the by far the easiest art medium to pick up and learn.

When you have finished this course not only will you walk away with 6 AMAZING Bird Paintings but you will also be able to apply what you have learnt to draw own pictures.

Materials

Pastel Pencils

Pastel Pencils are a wonderful medium, they can be blended easily on top of each other and, because they're in a pencil form, are very easy to use.

These subjects are technically classed at an "Intermediate" level however I always say that no matter your experience, if you want to have a go, then you should.

We use Pastel Pencils from a variety of brands - Faber- Castell, STABILOCarbothello, Cretacolor and Caran d'Ache. You can of course use your own brand of pastel pencil too. We provide you with colour charts so that you can compare the colours. Here is the full list of colours used within the course:

Faber-Castell PITTPastel Pencils

• 101 white

• 230 cold grey I

• 233 cold grey IV

• 169 caput mortuum

• 155 Helio Turquoise

• 157 dark indigo

• 181 payne's grey

• 199 black

• 280 Burnt Umber

• 109 Dark Chrome Yellow

• 113 Orange Glaze

• 118 Scarlett Red

• 192 Indian Red

• 189 cinnamon

• 138 violet

• 194 Red-Violet

• 103 ivory

• 132 beige red

• 186 Terracotta

• 283 burnt sienna

• 149 Bluish Turquoise

• 270 warm grey I

• 273 warm grey IV

• 140 light ultramarine

• 143 cobalt blue

• 151 helioblue-reddish

• 102 cream

• 185 naples yellow

• 170 may green

• 165 juniper green

• 190 venetian red

• 175 Dark Sepia

• 159 Hooker's Green

• 104 Light Yellow Glaze

• 168 earth green yellowish

• 167 permanent green olive

• 226 alizarin crimson

Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils

• 542 Light flesh 10%

• 093 Violet grey

• 066 Raw russet

• 042 Flesh

• 039 Olive brown

• 541 Light flesh 5%

• 582 Portrait pink

• 212 Chromium oxyde green

• 662 Cobalt blue 10%

• 901 Chinese white

• 736 Brown olive 50%

• 748 Dark flesh

• 745 Dark flesh 40%

• 821 Naples ochre

• 068 Herculanum red

• 741 Dark flesh 5%

• 240 Lemon yellow

• 530 Golden cadmium yellow imit.

• 243 Light olive 20%

• 070 Scarlet

• 060 Vermilion

• 161 Light blue

• 050 Flame red

• 506 Payne's grey 50%

• 583 Violet pink

• 052 Saffron

Cretacolor Pastel Pencils

• 212 Indian Red

• 140 Mars Violet

• 130 tan dark

• 135 old rose light

• 179 Fir Green

• 112 vermillion light

• 182 moss green dark

• 126 reddish purple

• 183 french green

• 164 smyrna blue

• 131 tan light

STABILO Carbothello Pastel Pencils

• 724 Cold Grey 3

• 680 Dark Flesh Tint

• 640 Caput Mortuum Violet

• 770 Payne's Grey

• 670 Burnt Sienna

• 210 Orange Yellow

• 570 Leaf Green Middle

• 695 Naples Yellow

• 330 Purple

• 325 Carmine Red Deep

• 642 Caput Mortuum Violet Light

• 405 Ultramarine Blue

Pastel Paper

The paper I use is Dark Grey PastelMat Pastel Paper (300gms thickness). This is a fantastic paper and can take a lot of layers.

It has a sand paper like texture to it which makes it more difficult to erase mistakes on but the results you can get are worth it. If you do not have this paper you can use your own pastel paper (UART800 grit is a great alternative).

Outline Drawing

I provide you with a basicoutline drawing for each picture. If you wish to use this, simply tracethe outline to your paper using a graphite transfer sheet like tracedown (for dark grey paper you will benefit from using a white tracing sheet so you can see the outline more clearly).

Step by Step Instructions

I walk you through step by step with video instruction how to draw each stage. You'll learn techniques behind drawing beautiful bird pictures and createpictures you can be proud of.

Start Learning Today

With just a small amount of pencils you will see the AMAZINGeffects you can get.

Let your journey into drawing and painting bird portraits start here.