Expressive Animals With Mixed Media

Learn how to build bold, expressive animal paintings using drawing, watercolor, acrylic, collage, and layered mixed media techniques.

This course starts with simple shapes and structure, then gradually moves into looser, more expressive approaches so you can create animal paintings with more personality, movement, and visual energy.

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Mixed media animal drawing and painting course

What You’ll Learn

  • Gestural and foundational drawing

  • Simplifying animals into basic shapes and forms

  • Capturing movement and character

  • Combining watercolor, acrylic, and collage

  • Building layered mixed media surfaces

  • Moving from sketches into more developed paintings

  • Creating stronger texture, rhythm, and expressive marks

  • Developing a looser, more personal approach to animal subjects

Inside the Course

  • 39 video lessons

  • 4+ hours of instruction

  • Multiple animal subjects

  • Real-time demonstrations

  • Progressive lessons from fundamentals to more advanced mixed media applications

Who It’s For

This course is ideal for artists who want to explore animals through a looser, more expressive process and experiment with combining drawing, paint, collage, and layered media.