How to paint a cutie of the bird world
Another busy week comes to an end. Delivered some work this afternoon to an exhibition that will be opening soon, so I thought I’d share a little corner with you.
This is an Azure Kingfisher, cute little guys of the Kingfisher world. This is the bottom right hand corner (approx 10cm x 7 cm) of my finished piece, which I’ll share in full with you on Wednesday to co-incide with opening night.
After I’m happy with my sketch I apply liberal amounts of masking fluid.
Then the background is softly airbrushed in.
Then flat blocks of watercolour is applied quite thickly.
The starting from the beak down I start to move colour around and put in some brushstrokes.
Once the eye is painted in he takes on a real personality.
I define my light source and place the darkest shadows in.
Highlights on the feathers are brushed in with a fairly dry brush.
Feet are blocked in and work on his tree stump starts.
Final shadows are dropped in as well as the highlights on his toe-nails. When I paint the polish on these I know I’ve finished!
Will reveal the whole piece in a couple of days.
Have a great week everyone!
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thank you for sharing the process. most interesting and a gorgeous result. can’t wait to see the whole painting. good luck.
This is gorgeous, and thank you for sharing your step-by-step process with us. It’s always so interesting to see how something was created!
Great to see your painting process and I love the detail you have got and those rich colours, will check back for the full painting)
How fascinating to see the progress of this beautiful painting Cindy - he really is a cutie and you have done a superb job of painting him - LOVE it!!!!
That’s great to see the way you created that kingfisher Cindy, look forward to seeing the entire painting. As for my “work in progress” the fish pond - well don’t expect to see any swimming fishes anytime soon, that one’s on the back burner while I deal with some crazy times at work and more travel coming up. Maybe I need to outsource!
Oscar accepted your pat with thanks, though he is not lacking in the pat department I think. Yet another person is taking over at his work and he has been informed by Head Office that “Oscar is on the payroll, deal with it.” Three years now he has been turning up to work every day at Fishermen’s Wharf and entertaining drunken deckies and assorted characters.
Handsome fellow! I would love to hear what these birds sound like. Amazing place you live. Just love your brush work and colors. Look forward to Wednesday for the reveal.
Beautiful work, amazing detail! Thanks for sharing the process!
beautiful! and a big “wow!” at the same time for the process & it’s amazing result–would love to see the entire painting. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks everyone for your kind words, I really appreciate them!
Tazar, that dog needs his own blog!
Wonderful Cindy, I love how you have photographed this and shown the steps and the detail is so exact….
Gorgeous painting!! Thanks for the step by step, I love watercolor but it always frustrates me. you inspire me to make another effort.
Very nice work!! I also like the step by steps…always nice to see the process. Welcome to WaWe….