This week’s video features a really special bird: the lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). This small black-and-white bird with the characteristic crest is endangered in Germany by extensive agriculture (highly threatened status on the German Red List).
Watch the video to hear some interesting cultural anecdotes about this bird, and learn how to paint iridescent feathers – the lapwing’s dark plumage can shine in green, blue and pink depending on the light.
Watch the video here:
Sketching a lapwing in watercolor | iridescent feathers painting tutorial
Sketching a lapwing in watercolor (video)
More resources for sketching & painting birds:
Tips for better bird drawings
My Youtube bird painting videos (playlist)
How to Draw Birds (pay what you want class)
My classes on Skillshare
Lapwings along with Oystercatcher and Curlew came back to the farmland close to my home a few weeks ago. I was watching their acrobatic flight just this morning. All 3 of these birds have wonderful atmospheric calls.
Excellent painting, I shall have to have a go myself