Quiet little owl by Rachel's Rocks

Hey guys, today we're going to make a cute little owl as promised. Starting with a gray stone, nothing special about it. I'm just going to put two coats of white paint on it that way you guys can see my pencil drawings on it. My paint palette looks like it's been used already and it has. I actually accidentally deleted my entire tutorial for my owl and I'm having to redo one now. I'm using different shades of brown, white, gold, black, yellow, orange, different brushes, whatever you feel comfortable with. I'm going to do the easiest version of an owl that I can think of. Start with a triangle with a bum sitting on top of it. Easy to remember. Two circles for the eyes and then I do this shape around the eyes and beak. You can adjust it all with paint if it doesn't look the way you want it to. We're going to only do one wing on the side and it's just going to come over the beak a little bit at the end so he's quiet, he's not saying a word. I like to start with putting some black in the eyes there just to get the eyes out of the way so we have something to work with there. Then I move on to the beak because I usually have to do a couple of layers of orange. In order to not see through the orange and see the pencil drawing. So I put a couple coats of orange on and let that dry. Now I'm going to use pewter gray to go around the face. You can mix black and white to make gray if you want to use your own shade of gray. And I just literally sponge it on with a fuzzy brush and make it messy. It doesn't have to be perfect. And now I use a paintbrush and just flick the paint on in different shades of brown, black. You can add orange or yellow or red. Whatever you want to put in there. I'm just doing different shades of brown, gray, and black. And I just flick the paintbrush on. It's really messy. It's not going to be perfect. And it'll all come together in the end. That's all I can say about it. I always do the back of the rock when I'm done the front and it's completely dry. So we will only do the front first. Now I like to add a little bit of gray to my orange and do half of the beak in a shade darker. And lighten the other half. It just gives it some definition. It looks like there's some light shining on its beak. Makes it look like there's a little curve in it. Not so plain. And then outline in black there. I'm also going to outline the beak in black and and do a little bit of shading along the side. Just kind of blend the black paint out so it's not just a straight thick line. So that it looks like there's a shadow there. I'm also doing that with the wing. I'm blending out the black just to kind of make it look like the wing is lifted up a bit. There's a bit of a shadow underneath. Now I'm going in with both brown on the bottom and gray at the top. And I'm using like a thin brush and I'm just painting on these hairs. I call them hairs. But it's just giving the eyes a little bit of definition when we're done. So I do gray at the top. Brown at the bottom. And then I go over top of it all with the same brush. I don't change my brushes out at all. I like mixing the colors together. And I go through all of that and then I go around the outside over top of the gray. So it looks all hairy all the way around the face. Then I draw in my eyes again because we did go inside the lines. So I'm shaping my eyes again with black paint. You might have to take a hairdryer on a low setting. On a cool setting. And blow dry it so that you can let things dry and then you can go back over them again if it starts getting too messy. But you can always fix paint. You can always go over top of it and keep trying. I like having a hairdryer close to my desk. Now I'm drawing with dark paint. Dark brown. Just my feathers. I'm not going to do anything fancy with them. I literally am very sloppy with it. I go in with dark brown. I go in with a shade lighter. And I keep getting lighter and lighter as I get close to the feather beside it. So you can see it kind of goes from dark to light. But I'm not blending. I'm just slapping the paint on while it's wet. And it just kind of all mingles together and it kind of resembles a feather when we're done. This is a simple owl. And you can do whatever you want with it until it looks right. But I just keep putting in different shades of brown. And I apologize my video gets small here temporarily. It does open back up into a big video. I'm outlining all of my wings with black. My feathers, sorry. With black so that they stand out and you can see each individual feather. I also use a little bit of gold and I brush the gold on once it's dry. Once the feathers are dry. I just do a little brush of gold over top of each feather. And it also makes them stand out a little bit more. It separates each feather. Now I'm going to use a toothpick as well with some white paint. And I'm going to put some little white dots at the bottoms of the wings. There's the gold. That actually really makes the feathers stand out having just that little brush of gold over top of it. All right. And now right here we just do little half circles in the dark brown just like you did with the feathers. I go in with the dark brown first and then I go in with the tan color. And I just keep changing up. It's okay if it looks sloppy. I'm going to outline the feathers in black once I've got all of them colored in with different shades of brown and gray. And then I just define them with the black afterwards. Now I'm putting in just little tiny streaks of black paint. I get bigger as I get closer to the bottom. And that just looks like little tufts of black feathers. There's the white dots that I did with the toothpick. Now with the eyes I blend on some gold paint in the center on both eyes. Just a little bit. Not too thick. You kind of want to still see the black through it. Then you go in and make a pupil with that same brush out of black paint. So it kind of just brings down the black paint to make it look like a little half crescent moon. And then you go around with your black paint to make sure the gold doesn't touch right to the the hairs. I do a circle of black around that. Then I do the white so that it gives it some shine. Once that's dry I turn it around and I go back to just flicking the different shades of brown, black, gray. It does look messy but that's the fact. You can do whatever you want. You can do the same way you did your front feathers as well. I always sign it. And then as you can see there's the first one that I did that I accidentally deleted. So now I have a set of twins here. But I've resined them and they are gorgeous and shiny. If you want to see how to resin them check out the tutorial previous to this one. And I hope you love this owl. I hope you're able to make it. Thank you so much!