buzzard12
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A few hours yesterday, followed by a full day today working on this piece..
Black Throated Diver-acrylic on canvas
65cmx65cm
A painting that has long been in my mind, this one. The foreground bird is straight from my sketchbook, the other a fiction of sorts in that I simply penciled it in where I needed it for the composition. My earlier mistakes with painting this species saw me adding the strong darks early on, whilst a limited palette was employed. If I was only to paint one species alone, it might well be this one, these birds have it all...
Black Throated Diver-acrylic on canvas
65cmx65cm
A painting that has long been in my mind, this one. The foreground bird is straight from my sketchbook, the other a fiction of sorts in that I simply penciled it in where I needed it for the composition. My earlier mistakes with painting this species saw me adding the strong darks early on, whilst a limited palette was employed. If I was only to paint one species alone, it might well be this one, these birds have it all...