Bird of the day well actually

Been working on this bird for a few days. Maybe a week off and on.

This is 9×12 and done. I like a lot. So I decided to paint a bigger one. BYTW this one is available if you need her at your house.

The background wash went well but darn what was with the bird drawing. the back looks like spikes and regular ones at that. Regularity is an anathema in a painting. So how do I fix it without starting over?! So of course I kept on painting.

Starting the head. And then of course I forgot to take pics. Sigh. Really like the quin gold and the quin rose with cerulean on the neck and around the beak. But then no more pics. Sigh.

So here she is almost done but those spikes are still annoying me. So yesterday after madly painting with Vlad I thought slap some paint on the background and get rid of those spikes.

So I did. And it went well. I painted the horrible spikey look out. HURRAH!! But then I got the dreadful green run across the bottom of the beak. The 140 kilimanjaro was waffling like crazy with huge ripples making the washes run like crazy. To make it worse the green run was THALO notoriously staining of any paper. NIGHTMARE time.

Slapping cobalt on to give her some curves.

So her she is today. The paper dried amazingly flat for all the ripples it had yesterday. Maybe I can grey out the green streak. Tomorrows job! I do like the way she looks now.

Maybe a crop to take a couple of inches off on the right?? She’s a big girl at 16×20”. Did I say I have already drawn another one?! 😵‍💫

Tonite sunset was rather spectacular. I saw it out of the corner of my eye as I was heating up our dinner leftovers. We do love a good bowl of leftover soup.

Margaret ready for bed xoxoxox

4 thoughts on “Bird of the day well actually”

Alexis Aronson says:

February 18, 2023 at 3:37 am

The soft hues of the voluptuous bird, and your persistence succeeded to
produce the most challenging aspects of the work. Again, kudos, Alexis

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Margaret Hunt says:
February 18, 2023 at 4:08 pm

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Thanks. You are kind as always.

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Eric Wayne says:

February 18, 2023 at 4:07 pm

Wow. The new “big girl” really came out nice. I love the rich acid green with reddish-pink sprinkles of paint that is mostly a design element. And then you really got the curvature of the neck, and the subtle color permutations. I love that this is naturalistic but with stylistic flourishes which do not distract from it.

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