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Submitted: October 7, 2011
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Owlby ~greenfroggies

Traditional Art / Paintings / Animals

This was just an exercise in try out that very precise, botanical/nature study style of watercolours, to prove to myself that I could do it. I also wanted it to be beautiful, so I played with the gold/purple colour scheme.
I bought the reference photograph from a website last year, but I have frustratingly forgotten what kind of owl it is. Please enlighten me people.

If anyone is interested then I can upload detail pictures. No masking fluid was used- all the highlights were left by painting around them, even on the very little feather outlines. That took a while!

You might be suprised how easy this painting is to do, actually. I would be up for doing a tutorial, if people were interested.

Winsor and Newton watercolours on hotpress. A bit bigger than A4.
Painted as a (much overdue) gift for a friend.