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Submitted: March 3, 2008
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13 by 18 inches
Mixed Media (ink, watercolour and coloured pencil) on cold-press illustration board
Original for sale!

Female peacocks don't get nearly enough attention. The males certainly are beautiful, the but the peahens have a very beautiful subtle colouring, and the pattern of their feathers combined with their posture and movement deserve some appreciation.

This piece took a lot longer than I thought it would but it was worth it, there are a few things I think I need to create a new technique for but really for the most part I love it. I used a couple layers of india ink for the background and then a few layers of burnt sienna over it to soften it and warm it up a bit. With the exception of the breast feathers and some highlights, the peahen is all coloured pencil. The breast feathers are several layers of coloured pencil over a watercolour wash. I was experimenting with quite a few different techniques to achieve all the different textures and colour variation. Hope you like :)

This is the first of a four or five painting series. You can see WIP of this painting on my blog. This painting is for sale but it needs to go to a show so it can't be shipped until June.
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Impressive. o.o
I love how you detailed each feather.

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Those feathers are insane >.> Do you think you'd be able to get a close up of them? They just look gorgeous. I could just get lost in studying the background alone!

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"Typical of hypnosis-induced somnambulism. Must stop this dreadful glidiing among shadows; refocus concentration and thereby restore ego center."
Gawrsh that's beautiful! It's so well done.
Definitely faved.
aww :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brudah, I hurt people!
This is beautiful... sensual. I continue to love these ink backgrounds you use... they look so amazing in combination with the softer more muted foregrounds.

One thing I'd really like to thank you for is giving some insight into the materials and techniques you use in your artist's comments... it is really interesting to learn a little about how you achieve the effects you do... and quite inspiring. Thank you thank you.

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:star: *The-Pink-Giraffe :star:
that is stunning! I am green with envy :)

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I might post a few close ups in my scraps, I'll think about it.

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