Come with me on this mini class journey and learn how to create sweet Baby animals using a simple composition, colors, and style. I'll show you how to lay down color for a striking, rich background. We will layer on top with gesso to create a placeholder for our animals. We will be exploring and sketching in our journals beforehand to work on shapes and to decide what animals we want to create.

the details

• $39
• 6 lessons - sketchbook lesson and 4 animal lessons (piglet, elephant, Bitty baby-corn, baby panda and giraffe)
• Guest Artist Sylwia Gryczuk at @tandiart
• color choices and background work
• i'll talk you through each step....i'm pretty chatty in these videos 
• class is self paced (no longer monitored by me)

Supply list

• watercolor set - any set will do. I have used Prima tropical set for this lesson
• 6x6 hard board panels (a quantity of 4 at least)
• stabilo graphite
• catalyst wedge - optional
• lyra graphite stick (you'll see me using prima, but this is a great alternative and easier to find)
• journal or loose paper for idea sketching
• red colored pencil or watercolor pencil
• tiny brush 000 - i use this one

paint colors:

• any colors you love: don't feel like you have to use the exact color (except for quin. nickel azo gold. that color is a must-have for all my classes)
• quin. nickel azo gold (this is really the only color that has no substitutions and what I would consider a must have color)
• blick matte acrylics - green blue light
• golden matte - titanium white, paynes gray, cadmium red medium
• artist's loft - orange (any orange is fine)
• target colors: seaweed, morning mist, leaf (all of these are interchangeable)
• ceramcoat - salmon