PAINTING A GREAT BLUE HERON- step by step with Suzanne Barrett Justis
Follow along as I take you step by step in painting a Great Blue Heron in oils. This oil painting tutorial is for beginner painters as well as more advanced painters. I painted this on an acrylic grounded canvas using a minimalistic background in painting
The wonderful photo reference for this piece was provided by wildlife photographer Geoffrey Shuen
you can find him on Instagram.com/geoffreyshuen
00:00 Let me show you our reference by Geoff Shuen
01:53 Acrylic Grounding of the canvas substrate and vine charcoal sketch
03:12 The palette and mixing the paint colors
10:33 Let's get this bird blocked in with paint
25:08 Working on detail in rocks and feet
26:19 Using the sword brush to put in the chest plumage
30:03 Putting in final detail of face
34:03 Detail in Neck and Body
generally use Rosemary and Company paint brushes and will include the link here for your consideration
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one of the brush I used for the most was a Synthetic Shiraz pointed round or rigger, I will also leave you the link to the brush here. It is a very versatile brush, and you can see that if was able to do everything I asked of it in this painting tutorial
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I also used several of the Eclipse long Filberts of various sizes, you can find them here
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and Ivory long filberts, my " work horse brush" I love them.
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