Woodpecker Tutorial - Intermediate (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! Thank you for all of your Christmas and New Year messages. I loved reading them ❤️. I hope we can all get more time to relax and paint this year.

I spent December catching up with all the editing I needed to do and I managed to get everything completed by the afternoon of the 31st December. There were 7 tutorials I needed to voice-over and I was determined to start the new year with a clean slate so I was pleased to get them all done even though it was down to the wire. So here is the first tutorial of 2023.

I used a limited palette of only 4 colours when I painted this woodpecker. I made a few errors when I was painting and I'll show you how I corrected them in this tutorial.

All of the files you need to complete the painting are attached below my message here. The reference photo was taken by Vincent Van Zalinge on Unsplash. Here is the link to download it: https://unsplash.com/photos/b0NFKB2yCmc

I will put this tutorial on the tutorial indexes so you can find it easily. The links to the indexes are below.

Happy painting!

Louise

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Website index with linked images: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

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My tutorials are designed to help you on your creative journey. Any painting you create from a tutorial where I use my own reference photo is for personal use only. They can't be sold or entered into an art competition. I write on the Supplies Lists where the photos come from.

Permission is not given to paint any of my earlier paintings that are not tutorials because some of them are licensed. Also, a few of my earlier paintings were painted from photographs where I sought the permission of the photographer. The photographer gave me permission to use it, not others.

If I do a tutorial where I use another photographer's photo (eg from Pixabay or Unsplash) that is available for anyone throughout the world to download (copyright free) and use I’m happy for you to sell the paintings you create from the tutorial. I know art supplies are expensive, so it's good to be able to recoup the costs of supplies.

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Thank you!