Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Bird On The Edge

A local bird just hopping around waiting to jump off the edge for a morsel of food to drop at our local coffee house.  I am amazed at the brazen  behavior of these chubby birds.  
This is 12x12 pastel on Uart sanded paper with an under painting of compliments.  I covered most of the painting with pastel.  Sometimes I love how the under painting comes through and other times it just acts as a guide and gets covered.

4 comments:

Katherine van Schoonhoven said...

Maybe the underpainting in complements helps the painting glow with luminous color. This one glows!

Pam Holnback said...

Great values in his body!

Karen Bruson said...

Love the reds!!

Marian Fortunati said...

Love the color in this Dori...

And no wonder "Ben" is sold... Wonderful!!