Learning objectives
■ How to paint the eye
■ Practise the dry-brush technique
■ Practise colour mixing for shadow, mid-tone and highlights
Continuing my series on painting marine life using acrylic paint, we will have tun this month painting these three cute clown fish playing in a sea anemone. The fish are drawn into the scene using either white chalk, charcoal or water-soluble pencil (whichever you have available). Then there’s more practise in painting the all-important eye. To lay in the background, we will use the fundamental technique of mixing shadow,