Three Blue Feathers

Original Watercolor Blue Bird Feather: growcreativeblog

The inspiration for these three little feathers came from a real feather, but the paintings look nothing like it.  Oh well.  Looking at real objects while painting helps me get better shapes and forms, even if I ignore the actual colors and insert my own.

So here are my nearly-identical versions of the feather in gorgeous blues!

Original Watercolor Blue Bird Feathers: growcreativeblog
Original Watercolor Blue Bird Feathers: growcreativeblog

7 comments:

  1. Beautiful paintings! I love the blue interpretations, really pretty.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I do this too - use photos or objects as a reference for shape, structure and tone but then I play with colours :) lovely feathers.

    ReplyDelete
  3. These are just beautiful, Elise.
    <3
    Pia

    ReplyDelete
  4. Lovely and simple! May I ask how you managed to leave the fine white line in the centre unpainted? x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you! I just painted around that line to leave it white. It was hard, but doable. You could use masking fluid to get the white line also.

      Delete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.