Pintail Duck work in progress ~

This is one of my Duck photographs and it is of a Pintail duck. This painting will be my more traditional Pen & Ink with watercolor pencil wash.

Took me a few days to roughly pencil it in.

Find that it is better to put the Ink down first, then add the color. Tip: Ink goes on easier straight to the paper, so you should do that first if you can.

You can also see areas that I just started adding color, like I would with Traditional water color, working from light to dark.

I must subconsciously like stripes… was trying to get away from Cat fur stripes but instead… I am painting Duck feather stripes. LOL And this Duck as thousands of them.

Here you can see how I am rough inking in the Ducks head. These are the first layers of feathers. I will be doing 4 to 6 layers of ink on the head alone.

Finally finished with the first inking layer for the Duck’s feathers. I expect to do at least two more layers before I will be finished with that part of the body.
Added another layer of color to the water on the far side of the duck. I will not add any more color until I can start working on the water in the rest of the painting.

Am starting to make some headway. Did the first wash of color for the reflection and the first layer of color for the water in the front. Worked on the Duck’s feathers a bit more.

Added the third layer of color to the water, will need to work on the reflection a little more. Have added some more details to the bigger feathers but still have more to do on the striped feathers and the Duck’s head.

The finish…

For some reason the scanner lightened the water despite the adjustments I made and doesn’t show the green as well but I am happy with the results.

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and, bird, duck, feathers, ink, pen, water, watercolor and waterfowl