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| This is the parakeet from the last blog post |
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| I used aquamarine, light aqua, white, and sienna brown plus a little black/indigo blue on the chest area of the bird. I covered the entire area with light aqua. I then started shaping the feathers and areas. I worked in the direction of the feathers using white to lighten and aquamarine to add medium values and black or indigo with aquamarine on top for the darker values. I used the sienna brown, lightly, with light aqua over the top to make the gray brown area in the feathers. I used white to blend, texture, and lighten areas as needed. I moved down the front of the body shading with light aqua over the entire area. Then I added white in a textured pattern going in the direction of the feathers to the front and bottom. I used aquamarine and a little indigo blue to the shadow under the wing. Next I worked on the head adding light aqua and a little Copenhagen blue to the left side of the cheek. I used white to lighten and blend the light aqua into the cheek area. make strokes in the direction of the feathers. Then I worked on the stripes on the head around the eye. I added feathery texture with white going in the direction of the feathers over the black and white stripes. Using white and black I made and undulating pattern of light and dark on the stripe area under the eye. I lightened the white and dark in one horizontal stripe and then darkened the next stripe, and so on. This is a subtle pattern so as not to make any hard horizontal lines. Above the eye on the head I lightened and darkened areas according to the values in the photo. |