How to paint animals in the landscape - Watercolour demo by Tim Wilmot #21

Get animals into your rural scenes and how to get good green colours without a green in your palette! A Watercolour demonstration by Tim Wilmot with people and animals (well goats in this one!) set in Avebury wiltshire More paintings at In this demo I will be covering... 1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolour subject. How to simplify the scene. 2) Materials I use such as the paper. I will also cover the paints I use and the palette, plus how I hold the different brushes for different techniques. 3) Doing the outline sketch as the first step. How to draw goats/sheep. 4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and then the foreground. 5) Shadows and details of the figures and animals. 6) Watch out for the highlighting tips. More information on watercolour demos, lessons and recent paintings by Tim Wilmot can be found at