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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!
