Paint a Tiger in Watercolour 1. Draw your outline. Make sure you mark where the dark stripes will be. The stripes will be the darkest colour on the painting, so the pencil lines won’t show through. 2. Paint a very pale Yellow Ochre wash (use a lot of water and little paint) over the parts of the body that have coloured fur, even the parts that have black fur. Leave the paper white for where the white fur will be. 3. Mix a little Burnt Sienna with Yellow Ochre and add ‘flicks’ of it onto the dry