Golden Eagle
What a beautiful photo of a Golden Eagle. Love to paint him. I've started a portrait of this Golden Eagle in oils. Please feel free to follow the progress.
Just click on the first image to start the demo or click on any image to go to that stage of the demo. Updated 17/04/2006
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Revised: April 17, 2006
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Scruff Bald Eagle What a lovely character, so scruffy. I'll really enjoy this painting. His messy feathers with hints of green, blues and yellows. His bent crooked beak and inward tilted eye. |
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 Scruff
Bald Eagle
First I make sore I capture his look. As you can see I've had several attempts at getting his beak and neck right. I use a mix of white with a touch of blue then a green/white and a mid grey.
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Scruff
Bald Eagle I finish off the feather area's adding different tones of colour. I add the beak and eye using a yellow tone.
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Scruff
Bald Eagle Adding some more detail to the feathers and beak I decide to put the dark back ground in.
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Now I can see the effect of colour with the contrast of a dark background. I'll leave him to dry before I start the fine detail work.
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Scruff is starting to look great, I'm using the hints of blues, yellows and greens mostly in a slight grey tone. The flow of the feather detail is messy but in a controlled direction. I detail the inward tilted eye a bit more to that later.
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Scruff
Bald Eagle Continuing with the feather detail I add a hint of light orange and blue to the neck area and paint the white feathers over them. Now I paint the background with black, while the black background is still wet I put a slight hint of the blue, green, yellow and orange into it, you cant quite see these colour but they help the black backdrop feel deep rather than flat.
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Scruff
Bald Eagle Now the background is dry I work on the small detail to the feathers with short and long brush strokes. I work on the beak now with a hint of orange into the yellow. Scruff is looking cute.
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Scruff
Bald Eagle Not much left to do here I add the eye detail and work a bit more on the feathers. You could go on and on with detail but I felt I've reach as good as I'm going to get with Scruff. This photo of the painting was taken during daylight so is a true representation of the colours used. View sale price Arty fun 2 all. Gary
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