Loose Watercolour Animal

Illustration · Watercolour · Animal

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Fox mid stride
Wide crop
Square study
Detail of the bleed
Cooler palette

Recipe

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Updated 7 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A fox mid stride painted in loose wet in wet watercolour on white paper. Rust, ochre and grey washes run into each other while wet and bleed outside the shape of the animal, the middle of the body left as bare paper, a few dry brush marks describing the legs and tail. No outline anywhere, no background, a couple of stray drips below. Confident and barely painted.

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Recommended settings

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
White
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Washes bleeding outside the form is the technique. Ask for it directly.
  • 2Bare paper through the middle of the body keeps it light.
  • 3No outline, no background, no correction.

Things to try

Bird

a heron in two washes and a dry brush leg

Horse

a galloping horse with heavy bleed

Cool palette

greys and blues with one warm mark

Very wet

the washes allowed to run much further

With ink

a few ink lines added over the dry wash

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