I did two paintings from a photo of a gull in Florida. The first is in pastel on Hahnemühle Velour Board (So fuzzy. I find it hard (and annoying) to get a crisp line - although I've seen plenty of other people do it).
The second is a watercolor. In upcoming posts I'll show an example of how many paintings I do until I get something I'm satisfied with. For this gull I think I watercolored him four or five times before I was satisfied.
Also, I'm not sure I've said this before, but although I usually work from photos I do a lot of sketching from life. I just never find it easy to use only the sketches for reference when I'm ready to do a realistic finished drawing or painting.
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