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This is a little change from the norm for me. When I started painting, just about all I did was wildlife in and around my town of Morro Bay. Then at some point, I got away from it and started painting all sorts of other things, recently its been cars and trucks. Well, this one brings me right back home.
I found this picture on line. An otter all wrapped up in kelp. For those of you who have never seen them do it, the love to. I don't know what benefit they get from it, but they love to wrap themselves up in it.
Here is the picture I started with. Just a basic outline of the otter in the water. (apologies for the darkness of the photo, the flash on my iphone was on, but must not be quite bright enough. )
The next step was to add fur and kelp. I kept the kelp really yellow at this point. I wanted it to really stand out when you saw it on the finished painting. To do that I make it really bright to start with, and then add more colors over top. Blues, reds and browns will make the final colors of the kelp.
The real challenge is to paint the fur without making it all run together I chose to make the feet a little darker, and the face a little lighter. Hopefully it all worked out.
As you can see the finished product has water around the otter and just a bit of reflection.
I hope you all enjoy this painting. I really had fun painting it.
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