Bird Post

[radiantfracture]

Here's another in the regional bird series -- the American Robin I threatened. (QESḴEḴ in SENĆOŦEN -- pronunciation here.)



I was trying for the looseness of the house finch; this has not got quite that freedom, but I really like how it turned out -- the combination of wet and dry work to create the feather texture and the details, and the lively line. And it still has some of that slightly cartoony personality that the freer, slightly exaggerated and simplified shape gives it.

The background used to be much more saturated, and I had to work to desaturate it so that the robin would come forward.

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