Since playing with painting the first seagull, I have been been working on tweaking it. It has been a learning process which I have enjoyed most and hope to employ what i have learned in the future. The actual painting of the bird was pretty straight forward. However, painting the water was not so easy. Do you know how many You Tube videos are available on painting the ocean? A ton, and a lot of them are very informative and well done. After watching a number of the videos, I sat down and attempted to paint the water, and attempted again, over and over again. I finally came up with a something that I will let be for the time being.
Since I had such a good time painting the birds, I decided to try another piece. This piece embodies the birds from two pictures which I merged together to make a group shot. Again, the birds were fun to do, I struggled somewhat with the rocks, and the water was done over numerous times. I will be adding more texture to the rocks, although they really were worn very smooth by the ocean waves. I am looking forward to doing some thread painting, quilting, and moving on to some more birds.
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