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Feather Painting - Olive by ~Pastiche-X:iconPastiche-X:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Animals

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PLEASE COMMENT BEFORE YOU FAVORITE. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY YOU LIKE THE PIECE.
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If you've been paying attention, you'd know I already tried to post this before (but the picture sucked so I removed it). :P
So, after seeing feather paintings from various artists like =Nambroth, ~Novawuff, etc. I decided to try my hand at feather painting. Of course, I don't have any feathers laying around.... but fortunately for me, my birds were molting. This particular feather was one of the higher quality ones that fell out.

I really didn't have any idea as to what I shouold do for the subject, so I decided "What the heck?" and just drew my bird on there. Funny thing is that, instead of drawing the bird that donated the feather, I drew my other bird. Hehe.

The original is actually very small. The width of the feather is only .75 inches wide (2 cm) and the length.... wasn't measured. ;>>

Thanks to =Nambroth for telling me to scan the feather rather than take a digi. picture of it. Worked much, much better. :D

Oh, and I don't want critiques on this. Sorry but it's my first feather painting and I know there are a ton of errors. >.>

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Medium: Acrylics, cockatiel feather for the canvas.
Time Taken: About 2-3 hours total. :]
Some interesting links
Original photo: [link]
Size Measurement: [link]

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=thetawave2 Apr 10, 2008, 6:31:44 PM
Lol he looks angry. This kind of thing is really cool. Great job, especially for a first try! If you'd done the bird who gave the feather, wouldn't he just blend in with his own plumage? I like the contrast between the yellow and the black.
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~Pastiche-X Apr 10, 2008, 6:39:06 PM
He looks angry? Well, that's wonderful news. Olive is almost always angry at something so I've totally captured his personality. :D
Well, technically, both the birds are -about- the same in terms of coloration. The bird drawn here is a bit lighter/brighter than the other one so in that sense he does stand out more. hehe.

Thanks. I like how the yellow stands out against hte black as well.

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~Hyunthesosarian Apr 10, 2008, 10:42:42 PM
xD He does look like he's plotting machinations. Look out! That whiff behind you could've been a murder weapon! D:

Feather painting seems hard! I think the shading on the right side turned out really nicely, and I do appreciate the irony of painting another bird on the donor bird's feather.

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=Red-IzaK Apr 11, 2008, 12:51:51 AM
lovely painted :D

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~WhitePhoenix7 Apr 11, 2008, 4:26:37 AM
Aww, nice one! (It's also nice to know that some people has cockatiels, they are just so cute). I really think you did great job with this one, I think that feather painting isn't so easy... Maybe I too should try it some day (I have LOTS of feathers I've collected when my 'tiels have moulted, but haven't found any use for them yet...)

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~blasted702000 Apr 14, 2008, 11:47:10 AM
This is just an unusual form of art. You dont see many people putting art onto detached animal parts, just making the piece itself "art" if that makes any sense.

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~Kitsume0123 Apr 15, 2008, 7:30:48 AM
That's really neat!
I can't draw birds. xP
What type of bird is yours? o: *curious*
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~Pastiche-X Apr 18, 2008, 3:12:44 PM
Ah, no. Olive is too damn fat and slow to really sneak up on anyone. D; He DOES walk like a penguin, though. It makes me lawl.

Even more irony: it's actually easier than painting on CANVAS. You'd be surprised how much paint a feather can accept. I'd go through three-five warped pieces of paper to hold the same amount on my normal watercolor paper. XD
(The other bird didn't mind... I guess. Well, he did want to chew at it while I was working on it.... maybe that was his way of telling me something? >.> )

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~Pastiche-X Apr 19, 2008, 10:56:02 AM
They're both cockatiels.

Awww, don't say that. Birds really aren't that hard to draw, you just have to practice drawing them from photos and such.

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