Robin - Week 6 of '52 Weeks of Watercolour Birds' #Watercolor #52WeeksOfWatercolorBirds #ArtJournal

I was trying really hard to stay loose with this painting, but as usual I couldn't resist playing around with it, mostly because I didn't like the tree limb.  I think I got the effect of a photo where the camera isn't held perfectly still, lol.

That said, I'm not unhappy.  I was combining reference photos again, which means I have 'see' how things go together, in my head.  I give myself a bit more leeway in these cases, considering it practice and waiting patiently for practice to make nearer to perfect.

The biggest disappointment? After I painted this, I realized I was holding my journal upside-down.  *sigh*  I swear I have at least one upside-down piece in every single journal I've done.


Once again I used the palette based off of the palette that'Domenic DiStefano used in Painting Dynamic Watercolors', adding Qor Quinacridone Gold to the mix.  This has proved to be a nice palette for animal and nature paintings. The other paints used for my mixes were M. Graham: Anthraquinone Blue; Daniel Smith: Hansa Yellow Light; Qor: French Cerulean Blue, Naples Yellow, Sap Green, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Alizarin Crimson.

The brushes used were my Silver Black Velvets  Script Liner Size 1, and Round size 16.  I did my color lifting with a  Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin 5880 Size 10,  I've found the stiffer bristles in this brush do a better job of removing color, though it also damages the paper a bit more.

This bird was done in the Global Art Materials Field Watercolor Artist Journal Hand Book, 7 by 10-Inch that I'm using for the '52 Weeks of Watercolour Birds'.

I used a combination of reference photos that I found at the the Morguefile archive.

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