Raccoon Final

I was able to finish up my Raccoon painting today. Here is what I ended up with.

Watercolor of Weekah Tegalega

It has been a while since I worked in watercolor and I find I want to overwork the paintings. 

I will be doing a couple more as soon as I figure out what I want to paint and I am going to try to keep it loose and not over worked. 

Watercolor of Weekah Tegalega, or magic one with painted face. Part of my Native American animal series. Raccoons Wisdom includes understanding the nature of masks, disguise, dexterity, seeking guidance and confidence, questioning without fear, balancing curiosity, shape shifting, secrecy. 

Fine Art prints of Raccoon are available on my website.

Raccoon

I started on a new painting yesterday. I thought I would do a watercolor this time, Ive been wanting to do one for a long time now. While my wife and I were out thrift store shopping this weekend I came across a stuffed Raccoon at the Salvation Army Thrift store and snapped a picture of it. It is pretty old and disgusting but I thought it would work well as a reference. I did my sketch on the watercolor paper yesterday evening and started painting today. I used some maskoid on his whiskers and on some of the fur highlights to keep my whites as I decided to work pretty wet on this painting.

This is my first step. I wet the paper with a squirt bottle painted in the color really wet

 and threw a little Kosher Salt into the wet paint. Click on the link to read more.