Red and the Peanut: Chestnut-sided Warbler paintings...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Chestnut-sided Warbler paintings...

Chestnut-sided Warblers are always a fun warbler to watch. Their bright yellow heads and rusty-chestnut sides always look so nice through the binocs! I continue to plug away on the 100 Painting Challenge (2nd year). I finished these paintings a few weeks ago and posted them to the challenge site and the Birding is Fun site, but forgot about old Red. So here they are...

Painting 176. Tough Chestnut-sided Warbler on the Lookout

(watercolor, charcoal, and an electronic PhotoShop Filter)

...pencil sketch of the Chestnut-sided Warbler

Painting 175. Chestnut-sided Warbler Migrating Through...

(watercolor, charcoal, salt for the mottled background, and an electronic PhotoShop Filter)

...pencil sketch for painting 175

Painting 174. Chestnut-sided Warbler in the Forest

(oil pastel over a quick watercolor)

(...this is my favorite!)

Painting 173. Chestnut-sided Warbler on Branch

(...a quick practice painting to plan painting 174. It is colored pencil over a two-minute watercolor.)

19 comments:

Dawn Fine said...: AWESOME!!!!; October 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM
Carole M. said...: oh I admire your talent/drawing, painting. They're so realistic and I love the colours, effects you add. Beautiful bird.; October 18, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Montanagirl said...: Wonderful! Love the colors and different effects.; October 19, 2011 at 12:03 AM
Caroline said...: Lovely Kelly - I really like the digital effect!; October 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM
Sue said...: Kelly-you are so talented. I love them all.; October 19, 2011 at 5:17 AM
KaHolly said...: Your paintings are beautiful, but I esp. love the sketches! I'm so envious of your talent. Show more!! ~karen; October 19, 2011 at 5:59 AM
Kerri Farley said...: Add me to the list of those that are envious of your amazing talent! These are amazing! You inspire me to take some art classes!; October 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM
Cuby said...: These are absolutely delightful I think no.173 is my favourite if I had to choose. What talent you show.; October 19, 2011 at 7:27 AM
Unknown said...: very wonderful ! I Love these all !

- KAT -; October 19, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Unknown said...: Lovely and awesome! Keep those painting coming.; October 19, 2011 at 9:43 AM
TexWisGirl said...: love these! love the 'fuzz' effect you can capture in a 'quick' painting! :); October 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Janice K said...: Oh, I like them ALL!; October 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Gillian Olson said...: Beautiful drawings and paintings.; October 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM
Lynne at Hasty Brook said...: I love these!; October 19, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Timaree said...: They look great. I love how you got the texture so real on the oil pastel ones. And, I am glad you posted here as I haven't gotten anywhere else to see pictures lately besides the blogs. I guess it'd be easier to check flickr but the explanations aren't the same as on a blog.; October 19, 2011 at 9:45 PM
Cicero Sings said...: I too love the colours and the different background effects.; October 19, 2011 at 9:52 PM
Marco Luijken said...: Hello Kelly,
These all are great!!
Amazing how you have done this. These paintings are beautiful on the wall. Very well done!!

Greetings, Marco; October 20, 2011 at 5:14 AM
Mary Ann Gieszelmann said...: Yes, Kelly, I like Painting 174 also. You can almost reach out and touch those spiky little feathers!; October 20, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Kelly said...: ...thanks, everyone!! You are always so kind with your comments!! I really like scrunching out the oil pastels, and it was fun making this little warbler into a tough guy! :-); October 20, 2011 at 8:42 PM