Tuesday 17 August 2010

Shady Swan


Almost every Sunday (when the car park is free) my daughter and I take the week's bread leftovers and go and feed the swans and geese up at Fleet Pond. It's usually a bit of a bun-fight with feathers flying and many a squawk. After they'd finished last week and started to disperse, I got some nice photos of a lone swan that followed us as we walked along the path. I've spent the past week painting it in watercolours. As always, what seemed simple ended up being a lot more complicated - those reflections needed a great deal of thought and planning out! The colours in real life are richer than in the photo - no matter what lighting conditions I used, I just couldn't get it correct.

I tried printing with a dead fish yesterday......more on that another day if I can make something out of my slightly dubious results....

4 comments:

Magpie Magic said...

Lovely painting. Great colours and detailed reflections. :-) xo

Sallie said...

So pretty! I really like this.

WoolenSails said...

Beautiful piece and it is wonderful to get photos of scenes like that, that you can capture in painting.

Debbie

Featheronawire Sally Bramald said...

Love the reflections.