Originally I set out to make a quail in black and cream and gold. As time went by she seemed less quail-like and ended up without a plume and perched on a box over her clutch of eggs. I always save the empty wooden spools because I really love them and I was glad to use them here.
Here is a closer photo from above and indoors.
I painted her legs several times over and I’m really happy with how they are now – gold with dry-brushed black at the tops and lighter gold tips at the ends.
I hope you are having a happy Halloween. Stella is trick-or-treating as a cow and Roxanne as a bumble bee, equipped with a bejeweled larva necklace of her own design. I carved 8 pumpkins this week. We made a witch and a ghost to put out front and we’re expecting over a hundred trick-or-treaters before 6:30 this evening. Pictures to come!
I really love the bird’s whole pose/stance – it’s beautiful.
Happy Halloween to you and yours!
Your birds are incredible. Keep making art while the little ones grow. In the house of my dreams, I’d have one of your birds on the mantle piece.