A lady in my painting class paints animals so beautifully – lively, colorful, and full of personality. Me, I don’t usually paint animals. I did have fun painting the cats in gouache and sumi-e, so in a desire to expand my, er, repertoire?!, I decided to do some geese.
Painting animals, unless you are doing a portrait, don’t have to look exactly like the subject! Yay! Much less intimidating. So, geese.
Geese have such personality and they make me laugh when you see a bunch of them, necks extended, beaks up in the air. My geese aren’t quite so funny, but here is my donation to the painting of the animal kingdom.
I worked on this painting over several painting class sessions. Often I would put it up on the eraser edge under the white board of the classroom to ignore it and then look at it again, all the while working on another painting. Or munching on something, like cookies, that people like to bring in. Or wandering around to see what other people are doing. For reference, I looked at a lot of photos of white geese, trying to get a sense of their postures and poses.
Oil on canvas panel, 11×14.
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