Watch me paint this in the short minute & a half time-lapse video below. The video begins with the first layer already done (I call it “blocking” when I paint all of the elements of the painting and then later build upon it with texture and details). This painting was a 2 session painting and took me about 2 hours to paint in real time, painted on two separate days.
We get a lot of bluebirds in our yard ever since we added the food they like (called “bluebird nuggets”). And then, after we added a birdhouse they had many babies- about three or four each nesting session, which has been about three times a year. I’m not sure if these juvenile birds are all from the same bluebird couple or not, but with their frequent nesting it means about ten bluebird babies a year, so far!
I painted this bluebird pair from a photograph I took of them in our tree. They are so interactive with us and ever-present that we think of them as our birdie friends. I will include this project in my Birds and Animals book series, but I really just wanted to paint it for myself because I love these colorful and sweet birds.
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