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Hairy Dog - Fur in Watercolour Tutorial (Patreon)

Published:
2019-07-25 23:13:40
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2026-03-04 23:49:14
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2026-10
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Hi everyone, here is the Hairy Dog tutorial. This video will give you some insight into how I paint long fur in watercolour.

I've included lots of work in progress photos of my painting that hopefully will help you understand what I'm doing.

As a little bonus, at the start of the video I show you how I choose my colours.

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Hairy Dog from Sydney for Patreon

Comments

Rebecca

Wow Louise!! This is such an amazing, great tutorial. You are so methodical, confident, and clear with your painting - it’s so easy to follow what you are doing. When I watch you paint, everything makes sense and I understand the how’s and why’s. But when I go to my own paintings, I feel like a hot mess - running this way and that, rushing to add paint before the paper dries, wondering how to get the effects I need to get to portray my subject. It’s a crazy time and nowhere near as relaxed as your tutorials! Maybe the calm painting will come with time 🤞🏼 Kind regards xx

Louise De Masi

Thank you Rebecca. I hear you! I'm often like that too. I'm a bit like a duck or a swan- I might look calm and serene on the top of the water but underneath my legs are going like crazy. I'm not sure it ever gets any easier but I think with time, you start to trust yourself and you relax a little because you start to trust the paint too. Sometimes it will do things that you didn't intend for it to do and instead of trying to make it conform you just let it go and often you'll get pleasing results. 💙

Rebecca

Thank you Louise! I love the analogy with a duck or swan - it’s perfect! And you carry it off so well - I never would have guessed lol! I appreciate your thoughts and honesty xx Thank you 💖

Myrrhine Grossi

This hairy dog is so beautiful. Thank you Louise for your tutorials. You are such a good teacher !

Susan Fellows

In the tutorial you use ultramarine blue. Can I substitute with French ultramarine?

Louise De Masi

Hi Susan - yes absolutely. In fact I think I made an error on the Supplies List. I used French Ultramarine. I don't have Ultramarine Blue. I'll fix the supplies list now.

Susan Fellows

Thank you! I was hoping it might work better on the cold pressed paper that I plan to use.

Susan Fellows

Why did you use hot pressed paper instead of cold pressed for the dog?

Louise De Masi

No particular reason. I used to use hot pressed paper when I was working in licensing because it reproduces better than cold pressed paper. I have sheets left over that are getting old now. I like to use them up before they deteriorate. I prefer using cold pressed paper.

Nancy Dallison

Hi Louise, I have a question not really specific to Hairy Dog. Do you transfer your drawing to the watercolor paper before you soak and stretch the paper or transfer after soaking and stretching? I watched your YouTube video on stretching and it appears that possibly you transfer drawing prior to stretching. I appreciate any advice you have to offer! Thanks

Louise De Masi

Hi Nancy, you can do it either way. I tend to do it after these days because when you soak the graphite in the water I find it tends to set the graphite and makes it a little more difficult to erase.

Nancy Dallison

Thanks for your response. One more question...what is your preferred way to transfer the line drawing to watercolor paper after stretching?

Karen Lorenz

Thank you so much for this, Louise!

Hotflash Vickie

I've been waiting to see "Sydney" the dog! Not that I've had any time to do any painting lately, and am wondering if I will... drat it all! But thanks so much for the inspiration, even if it produces frustration sometimes! And your Australian birds are just so lovely, it got me to wondering if you would ever want any of us to send you original uploads of any of our native birds.... just something to think of, as I've been staring at some interesting ones this week ten feet from my window who have been cleaning out our birdfeeder, Carolina wrens and even some woodpeckers in our backyard. What a wild assortment of birds we all have, wherever we are. Anyway, work awaits once again, but one of these days very soon, I'll get the paintbrushes wet and they will STAY wet for more than a day, I hope!

Louise De Masi

Hi Vickie, Yes photos for reference that you've taken yourself - most definitely. That would be wonderful. I have a link here where you can upload any you might think are useful. I'll do a post about this to let everyone know. dropbox.com/request/9XP9GSAoP9iHlz0lhZym Don't work too hard! xx

Marijke de Boer

He looks very naughty - showing a lot of personality too. Beautiful drawing!

Terri Soha

This is an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much. Now hopefully I can apply what I've learned to the pomeranian painting I need to start. :)

Rita Navroth

Louise what other color could be used for Potters Pink?

Louise De Masi

Potters Pink is very pale. I don't use much of it in this painting (only on the tongue) so what you could do is use one of your other pinks but mute it a bit with some Burnt Sienna or other earthy brown colour.

krisha

This is just so lovely! Thank you! When you print out your pictures to trace onto the Saral paper, do you make them larger or do you take a print out of the photo to a shop and have it enlarged?

Louise De Masi

My pleasure Krishna. I print them from home. I make them larger in photoshop if I need to.

Rita Navroth

Thank you Louise. :-) good to know. I now have 56 of the Winsor & Newton colors, but not Potters Pink LoL. The colors do vary quite a bit from brand to brand, even if same pigment number. I can really tell as I have been painting my color swatch chart, comparing the colors to other brand with similar names. I also notice a difference in using the paint itself. All very interesting. Thanks again for your color tip.

Donna Robillard

Thank you for this tutorial. I have been working on my border collie and love my eyes but was struggling with how to layer the white and grey in her front bib area. I may have to re-do her and do her right this time-lol Thank you again!

Iris lee

Hi Louise, I have just joined your tutorials from the UK. I’m having problems with the tutorials. If I attempt to increase the screen on my I pad to full screen, I’m taken to you tube mode. Then if I attempt to pause, as obviously I do regularly as I am a beginner the screen freezes and I have to reload again. I’m finding this really frustrating and my painting is drying in all the wrong places. Am I doing something wrong. By the way I love the way you teach. Kind regards iris

Louise De Masi

Hi Iris, Thank you! I'm not very technically minded and I really have no idea what could be going wrong I'm sorry. The videos are uploaded onto YouTube as an unlisted video so only patrons can see them. I'm not sure whether you are watching through the internet (a browser such as Safari or Chrome) or through the Patreon app. I suspect if you are logged into Patreon through the internet rather than the patreon app you may have more success. Maybe you need to update your latest version of software. There is a link here where you can contact the Patreon help centre https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us I'm sorry, I wish I could be more helpful.

Iris lee

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly. I will investigate further and keep painting. 🙈🎨

Iris lee

Hi Louise, I have downloaded the Patreon app and everything seems to be working fine. I’m not very technically minded, I was working through safari.

Leann Cunningham

Wow wow wow beautiful dog Louise. Going to paint her /him. After the two birds. What a fabulous painting. ❤️

Leann Cunningham

Would you please do a short hair dog. Iam not sure how much hair I need to show. Thanx

Tracy Lustick

Is there video of the actual painting process Louise ? I'd like to apply your methods in making a painting of my Abby too .

Louise De Masi

Hi Tracy, do you mean a video of Chelsea my dalmatian? Do you have a dallie as well?

Tracy Lustick

I found this on your website Louise , thank you !

Gloria Kerkhoff

I love the bonus part on color selections. I love that you do very little mixing as I have found that process stops me from painting as I never know what to mix to get the color I am hunting for. Your method is just so much easier. I bought the dot charts from DS and WN to help me. I am learning so much from you. One suggestion, could you give the level for each painting right at the beginning of the video-beginning, intermediate or advanced. I love to watch you paint. This dog is adorable, but maybe too hard for me at this stage.

Louise De Masi

I don't like mixing watercolour paint on the palette. I mix acrylic paint no problem but watercolour is a different beast and I find the colours in my finished watercolour painting are much more vibrant if I mix as little as possible. When you're learning though you may not have many colours so mixing paint is necessary. That's a good idea about the painting level at the beginning of the tutorials. Thank you Gloria. I've started to write in the description of the videos whether I think they are suitable for beginner/ intermediate etc but I'll mention it at the start of the video too. Some tutorials are too difficult for beginners (the dog is one of them) but I try as much as I can to make my instructions understandable to beginners so even if you don't paint it, just watching it can help you. 💕

Naomi Witzke

Louise, thank you so much for the wealth of information you share with us. You are absolutely one of the best teachers in the field. If you don't mind me asking, do you keep the prep materials that you use to create paintings, for later reference? I mean your sketches, line drawings, paint swatches and reference photos. Do you file them in some storage system, or scan them and keep digital records? I find it useful later to remember what I did, what color mixes I used, and even practice bits I did on scrap paper if I'm learning a new technique for the painting. But I'm wondering how you (and others) store and organize these pieces, if at all. I suppose hanging files would be the easiest choice, but papers sometimes have a tendency to bend and sag if the files aren't chock full against each other.

Louise De Masi

Hi Naomi, My pleasure. Thank you very much! I don't store that information Naomi. I keep my reference photos on my computer but that's all. I also keep all the line drawings of the tutorials I make but not for my other paintings. I also scan all my finished paintings and store them on my computer. There have been a couple of times that I have used colours on a painting and I can't remember what I used. People have asked me, years later what colour I used and I couldn't remember..... that has been frustrating. I imagine if I was to start doing that I would probably store it all on my computer in folders. Line drawings I'd store in my big paper cabinet. You could also get a visual diary and dedicate a page or two to each painting that you do. Write the colours down, do a practice painting to work out composition and any techniques you tried.

Naomi Witzke

Those are wonderful ideas. I like the idea of storing things digitally but there are things that I would like to be able to see in person so perhaps be combination of the 2 is the best. Thank you!

Kim Holden

Hi Iris - instead of going full screen - try using your fingers to enlarge the screen you are on and centre the video in it - that way you get the larger view without the hassles when pausing/playing :)

Silvia Sunesen

excellent tutorial thanks so much Louise.

Leah Russell

this was amazingly insightful ! i really like how you graduated all the colors of the shadows together. i was curious when you design your painting do you think of the colour combinations beforehand and how they will all fit together? As subtle as they are even for this cute white fluffy dog , they look like they dance together how on the left the shadows are so warm then move to more bluish tones!

Louise De Masi

Thanks Leah! Sometimes if I'm not sure I'll try them together on a scrap piece of paper to make sure they look ok but mostly it's a mixture of gut feeling, experience and fingers crossed.

Leah Russell

great thanks ! i thought maybe it was something unique to watercolor painters like a secret vault of knowledge !! haha ... i think i will try to think about this when im prepping to do a water colour as i'm finding this a point of contention for me. on one hand you can't make mistakes with water colour yet on the other hand it seems like the colours ought to be subtle and softer than other mediums.

Nancy Gosnell

I am interested in trying this little guy in A3 format. Can you add the enlarged line drawing please.

Ariane

I have been just been watching this tutorial. Wonderful detailed information. I really appreciated how you went over your colour choices at the start of the tutorial. I wondered if you could mention again the name of the draw down paper you use as well as what that implement is you use?

Louise De Masi

Hi Ariane, thank you! The transfer paper is saral paper. You can buy it on a roll at an art supplies store and I used a stylus to transfer it on. You could also use a graphite pencil or even a pen to trace over the lines.

Hong loan Le

Hi Louise, I am having trouble to see the video here on Patrons. Seems videos can not load/open for me.. Could you please help? Thank you so much in advance. Your tutorials is amazing. I enjoyed them very much.

Louise De Masi

Hi Hong loan Le, If you are using the Patreon app on an iPad it could be the app that is playing up. Log into Patreon through your internet browser instead. I find Google Chrome works well for viewing videos. Thank you!