African Grey Parrot - WIP Day 12

Here's another two hours of progress to show on this.
I worked on darkening some of the darker areas on the parrot and also darkened the background.
I will now put it aside for a couple days to a week and then pull it out and see if I should add anymore or if it's done.

Colors used on the background:
Prismacolor verithin
Dark Brown
Goldenrod
Terra Cotta
Apple Green
Grass Green
Olive Green
Peacock Green
True Green
Canary Yellow
Grass Green
Ultramarine Blue

PrismaColor premier:
True Blue
Tuscan Red
Celadon Green
Henna
Dark green
olive green
terra cotta
Indigo blue
Golden rod

Color for Parrot:
Dark green
Tuscan Red

African Grey Parrot - WIP Day 11

Worked another two hours on this painting today.  Not quite there yet but getting really close!
Colors used on the background:
Prismacolor verithin
Dark Brown
Goldenrod
Terra Cotta
Apple Green
Grass Green
Olive Green
Peacock Green
True Green
Canary Yellow
Grass Green
Ultramarine Blue
True Blue

African Grey Parrot -- WIP Day 10

I can't believe I've been working on this parrot for over a week now.  Good thing each day is only about two hours. 

I've bit the bullet and I'm attempting a background.  No detail but will hopefully support the parrot without competing..... We'll see if what I'm attempting works out.
That's what this is all about right....Explore and learn what works and what doesn't.  Though it is SCARY to try new things on something you've put a lot of time into!
I'm starting the background using Prismacolor Verithins for this part and some of the color ideas came from a wonderful equine artist Carrie L. Lewis
 The order is basically light to dark but a lot of mixing in between as well.
Dark Brown, True Green, Cerelean Blue, Apple Green, Golden Rod, True Blue, Canary Yellow, Grass green, Ultramarine Blue, Olive Green, Terra Cotta and PeacockGreen.  Hopefully that's the whole list.


Here is today's progress.

African Grey Parrot - WIP Day 9

I've been able to work on this one about an hour and a half so far today but thought I would post an update in case I don't get back to it today. I worked a lot on bringing the light into this picture.  Refined a lot of the feathers darker areas.
Colors used so far:
Cloud blue, Light Peach
Periwinkle, Pumpkin Orange
Celadon Green, Henna
slight touch of blue violet
Tuscan Red, Dark green
Indigo blue

African Grey Parrot -- WIP Day 8

Since the weather is really cold and snowy/rainy right now, I was able to work on my African Grey Parrot some more. Today's colors were again the same as previous sessions but started bringing more of the darker combinations into the mix.
Colors used so far:
Cloud blue, Light Peach
Periwinkle, Pumpkin Orange
Celadon Green, Henna
slight touch of blue violet
Tuscan Red, Dark green
Indigo blue

African Grey Parrot -- WIP Day 7

I lost the plot more than once LOL but here is another two hours of progress.
Added Periwinkle and Celdon green to the color combinations today.  Also used a little bit of Blue Violet.

African Grey Parrot - WIP Day 6

I only got about two hours more into this but starting to define and refine the larger feathers.
Used Prismacolors:
Cloud Blue and Light Peach
Periwinkle and Pumpkin Orange

African Grey Parrot - WIP Day 3

Remind me again why I am doing this portrait LOL! It's so much fun to use the complementary colors to get the grey color but this is a lot of work too!!
Feathers are so tedious but here is today's progress.