Jackie Garner - Wildlife Artist - Wildlife Art Gallery

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Watercolours are often described as the most difficult art medium, but for most wildlife artists they're an ideal choice. The subtle softness that is characteristic of the medium lends itself perfectly to wildlife art. Whether you're painting feathers, foliage or fur, watercolours are ideal to capture the textures that make up the natural world.

Next exhibitions:
2012 Festival of Birds,
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust,
Slimbridge
4-5 Feb 2012

London Wild Bird Watch,
WWT London Wetland Centre
20-22 April 2012


Shine Original

Grassland mosaic Cards available	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Chinese Water Deer Original £80	Emperor Dragonfly Original £150	Sizing Up Cards available	Badger Original £80
When to paint with watercolours? For my feather paintings I would never choose anything other than watercolours. They are easy to blend to depict iridescence, precise enough for details of pattern and a wet into wet technique is ideally suited to showing the soft, fluffy afterfeather. Most of my sketches involve watercolour, mostly because the paints are so much more portable than acrylics. Certainly when I went on sketching trips to the Falkland Islands and Egypt, watercolours were perfect for painting the wildlife and images that I saw there.

Red Squirrel

Goldfinches	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Herring Gull	Nuthatch	Mallard feathers	Red Admiral Framed Original £120
Watercolours are also versatile and are suitable for many different styles of wildlife art. Even though they often give a soft, translucent effect, they can equally well depict a hard surface such as stone. The Dancing Cranes painting from my Egyptian collection is pure watercolour and shows the sharp outlines of a relief carving in stone.

Lapwings

Fallow Deer Cards available	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Feather Studies V Original £260	Painted Lady	Kind of Blue	King Penguin & Rockhopper
Sometimes when I'm creating wildlife artwork I sketch directly in watercolour without using pencil first, but frequently I use watercolours to enhance the original pencil sketches. Whatever your preferred method of working, watercolours are an essential part of a wildlife artist's toolkit.

Fox

Little Owl	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Brown Hare	Red Deer Original £80	Otter Original £80	Feather studies

When to paint with watercolours?