Let me show you a clip from my main Patreon video on how I painted the eye. Bear in mind that this is just a speed up clip in places, but the main video on Patreon is in real time. Let's get started. The first thing you want to do with any eye is to wet the paper first. It's kind of softening it down. That then gives me opportunity to keep it wetter longer. So it gives you that working time when you're trying to get the paint on the paper. When I add a little bit of blue in there, this blue will help for the highlights later on. So I want a bit of a kind of tint of that blue shining through. I'm trying to think about the eye, which is called a... I think I'll go for a little bit of burnt yellow and a touch of lamp black. I don't need too thick, probably like a look consistency. So I'll re-wet the eye once again. Even though I've wetted it two or three times already, I want to make sure that this stays wetter longer. Again, just give me more chance to work in it a little bit longer. Because it will dry especially under warm lights as well, it can dry quite quickly. So there's pops and colour in. There we go. So it's quite a rich colour this is as well. But you've got to bear in mind as well, watercolors that will dry that little bit lighter. Now I'm going to try and work out and map out the shape of the eye. Look at the overall shape. So I do this with a very tip of a double zero brush just to make sure I don't go overboard with it. You can fine tune if need be. But to be honest with you, the longer you take your time, the longer you like this. Don't never rush for painting obviously. Then you'll have plenty of time to kind of work out how fingers go, relax into the painting, keep looking back and forth at your photograph. That's something I always stress to everybody. Especially when my members on Patreon, they all know that. Now everybody want to kind of think about the shapes of the eye as well. So when we've got high light, I'll put that blue earlier on. The overall shape around there is kind of gradually working out layer by layer by layer. Each layer by the way, it's going to be dry. So you've got to make sure that every layer you're going to work on top of it. The previous layer is both dry before you go into that. Now this gives me the opportunity as well now to go darker, even darker. Because when you go darker and you go all these layers underneath, that allows you, if you want to, should have had this. Yeah, we'll do. Just be able to pull off a little bit of paint here and there to add those fine, tiny details. So fine-tuning, looking the overall shape again. Trying to think about how things are going to look. You know when you've got the ring around the eye as well. I want to look at that and start to look at the shape, the overall shape of that. Think about it. Think about it like a rope, okay? And the curves that you get within the rope. And that's the kind of effect you want to get from the around the outside of the eye later on. You see me kind of work on that shortly. Now this is a time when I'm going to add a little bit of watercolour white. I know one of those things, but I do like using watercolour white. But it's something that you tend to use quite sparingly as well. There are a variety on the market and there are some which are really really good. But also you've got to look at the opacity of watercolour white. Some are opaque, some are semi-o-pakes, some are semi-transparent. So I have a look at which ones you can get on the market. Look at the manufacturer's website and look at all the information that particular brand you've got. And then before I get into all the third painting on this, I just want to kind of look at the background colour which I want to use around the eye. So this is like a blackening brown, as well as some pleas. So there you go really. That's how the paint iraqouins eye or just one initially in watercolour. So I give you some ideas on what I do on my Patreon channel and how I teach my members there. So if I see popping along, come and say hello to everybody at patreon.com forward slash the Devon artist. And I'll see you all there very soon. And don't forget also my Patreon channel, there's a free video on how to paint a robin. So come along and have a go with that. There's no cost, no nothing whatsoever towards you. You don't even have to join. So come and have a look at it and let me know how you get on. I'll let you see your version of my little robin. I'll see you there. Hi, defends you later now to paint wildlife in watercolour. I'm using all the fine details so going against the grain, not working loosely or anything like that, working the finest of brushes and the finest of details to achieve more like a realistic feel to painting wildlife. Let me guide you through the process step by step in my video tuition. 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