Showing posts with label heron painting. Show all posts
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Friday, July 28, 2017

Yellow Crown Night Heron

4.25x6 acrylics and black India ink over failed work (see below). I pencil sketched the heron's head within minutes, then started with India ink doing only the black parts. Then I switched to acrylics to finish him within an hour for the WetCanvas weekend drawing event challenge.  Participants have only 2 hours to select an image and paint it; part of host Susan's challenge was to do a postcard size then mail it.  Now to see who might want this...

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Elegant Great Blue Heron

12x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper completed today in a timed WetCanvas challenge hosted by tyree.  This bird from start to finish took less than 2 hours.  This guy was watching for fish for his dinner.
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