Nr 1: Parakeets

 


My first painting for this blog is of course very special.

It's just very disappointing to me because it didn't go well at all. The branches got too thick, and I couldn't get the heads of the birds done right. I even wiped it off completely. You can clearly see that the middle one doesn't come into its own.

The left one is very thick and that gave it a bit more spring feel. The judge has become much too fat and no longer looks like a parakeet.

Nice exercise, but this time it was more like smearing green paint on a canvas board.
I still have 19,999 attempts to go 😆😆

Products I used are:
Royal Talens canvas board premium quality 20x20 cm 280g/m2
Oil paint by van Gogh and Rembrandt. Liquin, Gamsol.

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