Tomorrow is the birthday of my other half, so it was a great opportunity to work on something completely new and challenging to me. He is a nature lover, so the options were endless…
Yes. The options were endless. It took me some time to decided what I wanted to do.
I knew I wanted to paint the skies, so I envisioned a beautiful sunset. I don’t usually take advantage of my flat large brush, but I did use it quite a bit on this one.
As I was working on the colors I thought many times that it would not turn out okay. Insecurities… am I the only one? But I kept on going. I used the flat brush horizontally for the skies and vertically for the field.
It was also the first time I used some help to speed up the process! No, that’s not cheating…Definitely not…!
Black paint for the silhouette – I love it!
Okay, time to paint the silhouette of the buck. I got super nervous, I knew I had close to zero room to make mistakes here. So I picked my 00 brush and began to outline it as slowly as possible.
At this point I was very happy about how its body turned out to the point I asked myself if it would be okay to just leave it headless haha!
Well, he isn’t headless. He even has points and everything. Oh.. And a tail!
After finishing the buck I felt like adding another pine tree, and that was it. Singed it, done!
‘Buck At Dusk’ – original, watercolor
There’s something special about handmade birthday cards, right? This one does not fold, I have a handwritten message for him on the back. I hope he likes it.
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