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How To Paint an Eye with Watercolour
Learn how to use watercolour paints with a Simply Eye Activity Set. This includes the template, paint brushes, waterbrush and watercolour paint you need to create an eye painting! This step-by-step guide has been created by Daler-Rowney artist Amylee Paris, and is easy for artists to follow and explore with watercolour paint!
The materials in your kit
9 x 12ml tubes of Simply Watercolour Gouache Paint (white, black, hooker’s green, ultramarine, coeruleum, leaf green, deep yellow, primary red, orange)
2 x Watercolour Round Brushes (size 0 and 4)
1 x Waterbrush Pen
3 x Preprinted Eye Watercolour Paper Sheets
1 x Colour Mixing Guide
Please add
1 x Glass of Water
1 x Kitchen Roll
1 x Artist’s Palette
Your step by step guide
Use The Template
Sit comfortably at a table with all the equipment provided within the kit. Firstly, squeeze a small amount of each colour onto a piece of paper or an artist’s palette. Then use the pre-printed template provided to help you create your painting. In this demonstration, we will produce a wonderful painting with an eye design using Simply Watercolour paints.
GOOD TO KNOW: Your Colour Mixing Guide is here to help you with the mixing of your colours!
Eyelashes
Starting with the eyelashes, use black paint to outline the eye.
Whole Eye
Using the fine-tip brush, continue to create the rest of the eye and then use the blue colour to draw the inner shadows in the white of the eye.
Blue Part
With the two blues in the set and using the waterbrush, create gradients and halos. The dotted lines help you to guide the watercolour paint easily without creating harsh lines.
Green Splash
Then blend the greens and blues around the eye to create a fantastic splash effect.
A Range of Colours
Above the eye, the eyebrow also follows the rainbow structure. If you look closely, the inside is darker than the tip.
Yellow-Reddish Eyelid
Use yellow and orange paints to shade the eyelid. Red is used more on the inside of the white of the eye to mark the volumes.
Watered Colours
The great thing about watercolour is that you can create amazing effects by adding water to the colours. Feel free to add a little water to the red to change it to pink.
Dripping
Finish the painting by adding some yellow to give some light to this eye. Feel free to drip the paint to create great artistic effects.
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About the artist
The painter Amylee Paris tirelessly finds her inspiration in colour and nature. Her abstract blooms and portraits shine in several art galleries in the UK.
