I've thought about painting gulls before, god knows I have enough around my house for inspiration, but it took a little nudge to get me to do it. People usually tell me my birds have a lot of personality in them. I hope this guy does too, but I fear he is just a little too aloof for that. I mean he is floating way up there in the sky, how can I be expected to get his attitude, right? Well, I enjoyed painting anyway.
After the drawing, I went right into the sky background. A mixture of cerulean and turquoise blues. Then the bird is gamboge (yellow), Van Dyke brown ( I don't think it's named after Dick), terra cotta, rose lake (err, some kind of red anyway) and maybe a bit of raw sienna. After blocking in some basic color on the bird allI needed to do was add the feathers. actually 3 rows of feathers on the right wing. These were actually terrifying to do since I knew I had one chance. Given that, I think I pulled it off pretty well.
Well, I hope you like it, I loved painting it. Thank you.
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