Chickens in Watercolour: Splashy & Spirited!
FOR PAINTERS WHO CRAVE COLOUR AND CHARACTER
Discover how delightful it can be to paint subjects that make you smile with every mark—full of energy, character, and endless opportunities for playful technique.
Through confidence-building sketches, vibrant colour exploration, and expressive watercolour techniques (including magical salt effects!), you'll learn to capture the spirited personality that makes chickens such irresistible subjects.
By the end of the class, you'll feel more confident with loose, splashy techniques, more connected to expressive painting, and reminded that the most joyful subjects often make the most memorable art.
If you’ve dabbled a little in watercolour and want to loosen up, explore bold techniques, and paint subjects bursting with personality, this course is for you!
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Sketchbook Success
Heard of line and wash technique?
This one is more like line and splash!
We will discover how a simple energetic outline is often enough to make our subject recognisable.
After these 8 quick easy sketches, the drawing part of your painting projects will feel like a breeze.
Explore Playful Texture Effects
We are not just capturing the colour and character of these chickens, it's also about texture!
Try expressive watercolour techniques (magical salt effects!) to add a subtle feather effect you can't get any other way.
Discover how to enhance your chicken's personality without overwhelming the whole painting with a gimmicky effect.
Paint a Whole Series
We'll paint together, step by step to create two different paintings. Aside from the video you'll also have the line drawings and references so that you are guided all the way.
But there is no need to stop there!
Armed with these new techniques AND a library of carefully selected reference images, you'll be itching to create a whole series of your own chicken paintings.
Chickens in Watercolour
Capturing these spirited, colourful characters is more fun than you might imagine!
This course takes you step-by-step, starting with a confidence-building sketchbook project featuring 8 easy chicken sketches that help you understand their simple structure and spirited personality before you ever touch paint!
Then we move on to expressive painting lessons where you'll explore loose, splashy techniques, vibrant colour combinations, and even discover the magic of salt effects in watercolour.
You'll paint chickens so full of life and character that they radiate joy from the page, and with a curated image library included, you can create your own flock of these delightful feathered friends!
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Get instant access to:
👩🎨 a library of video lessons, references and line drawings so that you always have a painting project ready to go
⏰ quick projects to choose from when you are short on time
🏞️ just enough curated references available to never run out of things to paint, but not so many that you end up overwhelmed!
💡 an exciting painting series theme so that you feel freshly inspired
✍️ simple sketchbook project to support your painting skills and make painting easier and more fun
🤗 nurturing and encouraging environment so that you always feel welcome and supported
Here are your two options 🤗
- a fun Chickens sketchbook project that sets up your painting for success
- multiple Chickens painting projects, so you'll always have something to paint even when you are short on time
- step by step, real time narrated video lessons for Chickens
- line drawings (in case you are worried about the sketching part)
- curated library of inspiring reference images of Chickens
- access to the whole library of over 23 courses just like the Chickens including:
🌸 Wildflowers
🌱Garden Paths
🦜Birds
☕️Still Life
🏝️Beach Moods
and many more!
- different sketchbook exercises included in each course to build your skills
- a variety of painting subjects to try so you never feel bored
- a new monthly series course added to the library every month so you never run out of inspiration
- a fun Chickens sketchbook project that sets up your painting for success
- multiple Chickens painting projects, so you'll always have something to paint even when you are short on time
- step by step, real time narrated video lessons for Chickens
- line drawings (in case you are worried about the sketching part)
- curated library of inspiring reference images of Chickens
access to the whole library of over 20 courses just like the Chickens including:
🌸 Wildflowers
🌱Garden Paths
🦜Birds
☕️Still Life
🏝️Beach Moods
and many more!
different sketchbook exercises included in each course to build your skillsa variety of painting subjects to try so you never feel boreda new monthly series course added to the library every month so you never run out of inspiration
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FAQs
What supplies do I need?
I always recommend that you use what you already have. There is no need to use exactly the same supplies or colours as I am using.
I always include details of exactly what I use in each lesson but the broad basics include:
- 300gsm cold pressed watercolour paper either loose sheets, pads or sketchbooks - whatever you like best or have to hand
- a large round watercolour brush, and possibly a rigger (although even that is very much optional)
- watercolour paints
- a sketchbook or just loose sheets of copier paper and a pencil for sketching
How long do I have access to the course materials?
If you purchase the Standalone Edition of Dappled Fruit in Watercolour you will have instant and ongoing access to the materials.
If you purchase the membership you will have instant access to not only the Dappled Fruit in Watercolour class but also to the entire growing library of Happy Painters Hub courses. Your access to all of these courses will continue for as long as you choose to pay your low monthly membership subscription.
How does the membership pricing work?
If you subscribe to the membership, you will automatically be charged on a monthly basis. The membership fee is very low at the moment because the Hub is still relatively new. Over time, more and more content will be added so it is likely that the fee will increase in future enrolment periods.
However, when the subscription fee increases, existing members will continue to pay the low fee they originally signed up for.
That means you never have to worry about the subscription fee increasing for as long as you are a continuing member.
Don’t worry - that doesn’t mean you are stuck with me forever, cancelling or changing your billing details is easy. You can do it all yourself!
How would I cancel the membership?
Just click on Your Account from your student dashboard and you can easily edit your credit card details or cancel your subscription with a couple of clicks.
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