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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Checkered Past

5x7 w/c
I have been working on this little guy forever!  I was getting really caught up in the feathers when I finally stepped back and thought about the reason I wanted to paint him.  It was the expression on his face and the pattern in his feathers so I decided to focus more on his face and incorporate pattern elsewhere.  I cropped off all of the extra parts and I'm quite happy with him.  I'm looking forward to doing more of this kind of painting where I relax a little more and don't worry so much about my painting looking like the source but rather painting what I want to see.  The title refers both to the checker board pattern and also to the fact that this guy was a rescue.  Who knows what got him there!