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| "Pretty as a Peacock" $145 Watercolor and acrylic (11" x 11" image) |
This was a very ambitious painting for me to attempt for this challenge, but now that I'm done, I'm glad I did it! I will be painting many more peacocks in the future! I love to negative paint, so that was my favorite part of this process. (The white spots are painted with acrylic paint and are the spaces between the feathers, that I negative painted.) I started this painting by masking out the peacock's head and neck. Then I wet the whole paper, and laid gauze on top, and painted the feathers through the gauze. See photo below.
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| (Peacock in progress) |
After it dried overnight, I began to paint the peacock in a traditional manner. Lastly, I negative painted the white spots that were the background, peeking through the feathers. I could have done more detail on the feathers, but decided that I liked them left to the imagination. The effect of the gauze did the work for me!
I am glad you did it too! The colors are beautiful and the subject is handled so creatively. Beautiful painting!
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely.love the effect using the gause has given.
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Very pretty...I did a peacock today too!
ReplyDeleteReally lovely, well done
ReplyDeleteVery pretty Karen!
ReplyDeleteThis is the best one yet!! Do more peacocks!
ReplyDeleteWow, gorgeous! And what a great process. And those whites in the negative space - genius! (I am behind for today so it may be two tomorrow!)
ReplyDeleteAWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very much Pretty as a Peacock!
ReplyDeletestellar--you never cease to amaze me. I am going to own "Friends Forever" and I have the spot!! Yay!
ReplyDeleteThis has been fun! I emailed your 30 poster to Kathy Foster, as she doesn't do FB. I have framed the 2 paintings I did in the workshop, and they look awesome. I so much appreciate the way you share your knowledge so freely! You are a great artist and a great teacher! Oh, and a great juror. I feel soooo fortunate to be one of your students. See you in April!
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