Tag Archives: waterfowl
Ducks Unlimited-A Wildlife Artist’s Best Friend
Ducks Unlimited is, in my opinion, one of wildlife art’s greatest allies. Not only does the organization provide wildlife artists and waterfowl artists a huge potential for revenue from the sale of artwork, they provide an ever growing resource from which artists can pull from in terms of habitat for the ducks on which we so desperately depend.
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Tagged conservation, Ducks Unlimited, habitat, limited edition, lithograph, North America, waterfowl, wetlands
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How to Create a Painting From a Photograph
In past articles, I’ve talked about preparing for a painting by using reference photographs. This process involves taking numerous photographs and selecting certain elements from each picture and creating a whole new painting from the mosaic of elements. Continue reading
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Tagged artist, composition, Photoshop CS5, reference photographs, rule of thirds, waterfowl
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Waterfowl… Why I Love to Paint Them
When I first started trying to learn to paint, I was blown away by the works of such waterfowl masters as David Maass, Phillip Crowe, Maynard Reece, Jim Hautman, Ken Carlson and Larry Chandler just to name a few! Continue reading
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Tagged Color, duck stamps, fog, habitat, painting waterfowl, reflection, sunrise, water, waterfowl, waterfowl masters
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Hidden Refuge A Mallard Duck Painting
Back in November 2010, I began comtemplating what my next wildlife painting would be. I began doing my standard research looking through all of my reference photographs to find the subject material for the painting. Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, belted kingfisher, Color, foliage, mallard ducks, materials, reference materials, reflection, trees, water, waterfowl
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Selecting the Wildlife for a Wildlife Painting
In this article I will talk briefly about how I go about choosing what wildlife will appear in the new painting. Continue reading
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Tagged accurately, bird, deer, ducks, Gatlinburg, mallard, mergansers, scaups, swimming, Tennessee, turkey, waterfowl, wood duck
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