Painted Backgrounds

My latest painting venture is to paint backgrounds for my carving photographs. It's an interesting problem, since product photos have to show off the item, while the background is, well, in the background. So the paintings have to be fairly light, and not too detailed. It's been fun! I do need to paint more habitats.

Here are 3 examples of different painted backdrops, and a Blackpoll Warbler in the forest habitat.

Hidden in the Dunes Multimedia Painting

I've finished this painting now. Well I think I have anyway. It might be fun to compare this with the previous post of the same artwork at an earlier stage. It's no longer an airbrush painting, but has to be called multimedia with the addition of marking pens and colored pencil. What fun this was!

Airbrush Painting: Hidden in the Dunes

Mad River Dunes

I may do a few more details on this, but it's mostly finished. It's inspired by the dunes where the Mad River used to run; the river changes constantly and has abandoned it's old path for a new route to the ocean, leaving behind dunes and wetlands, with a bluff above. It's a great spot for wildlife. This painting was done mostly with airbrush, also using archival markers. It's 8 by 10 inches, on multimedia artboard.

Aardvark in Awesome A is for ArtFire Collection

My work has been in many collections, but it's been awhile since I've included one here on my blog. Here's the latest:

A is for Artfire

Curated By: VirtuallyYours

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