You're a great teacher, because I can't draw a stick figure, and I still learned!

Woohoo! I've learned a lot. I keep saying to myself, paint what you -actually- see! Wings and tail could benefit from that :) This was a great pleasure!

We really appreciated this class. Learning about feather groups gave us a different perspective on birds. Learning to paint acrylics with water brushes was a challenge. Thank you! John and Ellen 

This class is great, Jane!  Here are a couple of swallows from my husband and me:

I had some of the same challenges with the cardinal as I had with the barn swallow. My initial drawing was smaller than the photocopy and I had trouble keeping the feathers straight. I am happy with both results anyway, and have learned a lot.

I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the quality of this course. I've never learned so much and enjoyed it so much. Thank you so much. A first try with my acrylics while waiting to receive my order of Golden Fluid. I'm having a bit of trouble mastering the flow of water from the brush, but I think that will come with practice. THANK YOU !

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My version in watercolor.  Thanks so much for your teaching.  

So much fun to paint a cardinal. We see lots of them were I live. Never realized just how much variation there was on a cardinal. Had a hard time with the feet. Going to have to practice on them.

So happy with this one. I feel like I did a much better job with texturing the bird this time.

This time I tried some background treatment. Didn't quite get all the colors I wanted but though it best to stop. Time on project 3 hours. Had a lot of fun on this and the Barn Swallow.

I'm a bit unclear on why we should learn to draw the bird if we are using tracing paper to transfer the image to the final paper for painting. Might as well just trace from the photo. I think learning to draw the bird and know all the parts is a good thing. It's just if we're tracing, might as well use the most accurate image possible, the photo.