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Peacock Number 2

August 14, 2025

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I decided to make a second attempt at that peacock, ignoring the original background.

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Peacock posing

I should have expended more effort on the wood at left, which just looks like a purple scribble, but I was mostly focused on trying to capture the essence of the bird. I think it's not awful.

Jan. 12: A most hopeful giraffe, and knowing when to stop

I painted this little guy while listening to President Obama's State of the Union speech. I think he looks rather hopeful. I couldn't find my black paint, so I used a very dark purple. I was looking around for the actual name of that color (purple dioxazine!) when I stumbled on this Acrylic Painting for Dummies cheat sheet, It turns out that I did a good thing, totally by accident, when I didn't use the black paint for this. I'm happy with the result. I gave him a bottom lip, which, when you look at the original photo , you can't see. In the photo, it makes perfect sense; his actual face is longer and pointier. But when I painted him, that nose and mouth area turned out rounder (I seem to have that problem ... making things rounder than they are). It looked wrong to me without that little suggestion of the bottom half of his mouth, so I chickened out and added an extra line. I was going to do more with the background, but once I was happy with the giraffe, I...

Jan. 7, Fable: The goat that wanted to be a bird

As promised, I am supplying you with the photo I was using as I painted this. I want you to look at it, as it is a goat in a field of poppies . That is what I was trying to paint, and somehow it became this. No goat, no poppies. Sometimes, the heart wants what the heart wants, but the paintbrush wants something else altogether.

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Peacock Number 2

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