Sarah's Chickadee

Can you believe this chickadee landed on my step-sister's hand like this? With no seed! I would have been as thrilled as she was! Beautiful area too, believe she was at Lake Tahoe, one of my very favorite places.

6x6 on 1/8" museum quality panel

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Watercolor Elephant

It's hard to believe that I waited as long as I did to paint an elephant with my watercolors. This one was done in my moleskine journal. I love the soft easiness of it. The chickadee was also done in my journal.

Chickadee

This painting was a study in looseness. The idea was to do this quickly and to not go over knife strokes too much. I achieved this on the bird itself, but it was a little tougher trying to get an atmospheric background. My plan is to keep practicing this and paint a lot of chickadees this winter. 

I always premix my colors with a limited palette and was really happy with those. You would think a chickadee was just black and white--not so! 

8x8 Oil Palette Knife Painting

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