Isn’t this funny – recently I found an online course called “happy birds” on clarissa-hagenmeyer.de. Clarissa is a creative coach and artist
who teaches a technique she calls “happy painting”. And she is right, this is really, really fun to do.

Clarissa is using real water colours with a paint brush and stuff, but I cheated a little and used water colour pencils instead, which are water soluble – a very clever trick. It is really, really easy to handle, just draw on the dry paper and go over it with a water brush afterwards at your convenience. Finally, some strokes with a black and white fine liner – done.

You can see the evolution of this little guy down below.

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