Watercolor Horse Painting Supplies

Series Summary

The art of watercolor painting has been practiced since the time of the ancient Egyptians, when frescoes were created by a process of applying water-based pigments to wet plaster. Watercolor painting also has a rich history in Chinese and Japanese art, and has been used to add color to beautifully illuminated manuscripts in cultures throughout the world. What we think of as modern watercolor painting began to develop in the 1500s with Albrecht Durer's landscape studies. The popularity of this medium spread and spawned many disciplines of watercolor painting, including the 17th century British school and the California style of the 1920s. Learning how to watercolor requires painting a wide variety of subjects and textures. In this free instructional painting video series, an art teacher demonstrates how to watercolor paint a wild horse. Learn about the supplies you'll need to get started, as well as tracing techniques. Find out how to blend shadow areas and soften edges to get a more life like affect. Pull out your paints and brushes, and discover your creative side.

Video Transcript

"OK. Now, we're going to do an intermediate project. It's going to be a wild horse. And it's going to be a white horse, but in order to show a white horse, of course, you've got to have modeling, which is what it takes to make the horse look three dimensional. And, what we're going to need is a piece of watercolor paper; a piece of transfer paper, hopefully the kind that will allow you to erase, so if you make any mistakes, you can erase; also, you need a .5 millimeter or .7 millimeter mechanical pencil or a very sharp 2H pencil will do. And, you'll need a water container for clear water and a water container for cleaning your brushes. We'll be cleaning the brushes on the paper towel. But we'll need this water to do it with. "