Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel FINAL

I'm calling it done and moving on the the next one.

Here it is:

Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel

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Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel -Work in progress 4

It's looking like this one is pretty well finished to me. 

I may nit pick a few small things but not much.

Here it is:

To see the step by step photos read on after the break.

Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel -Work in progress 3

I skipped a day of painting for a doctors appointment but I'm back painting today.

 

Here is how it looks right now.

To see the step by step photos of my progress read on after the break.

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Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel -Work in progress 2

These acrylic ink projects move along pretty fast. I need to do a few in a row so 

I remember what I learned from the last one. 

I spent the day building up layers of color and texture and this is how it looks right now.

 

 

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Blue-eyed Darner Mating Wheel -Work in progress 1

While I'm waiting for my Red Tailed Hawk portrait to dry and do the nit picking on it, I started a new painting today. This one is acrylic and alcohol ink on Yupo paper and is inspired by a photograph I took at Rancho San Rafael Park the other day. I started with a light sketch and then proceeded to apply acrylic ink very wet with a brush and then mist it with a mister bottle. I dry it with a hair dryer on low heat and just keep playing with the color until I like it.

This is the first painting step, just applying the acrylic ink to the Yupo and letting it move around.
Misting with a squirt bottle adds interesting watercolor effects.

Several layers will be required to build the density of color.
Detail is added with watercolor pencils.