This was started the same day that I did the old train a few posts back. I had such a lousy sketching session that I stopped at this little pond near a church to do some painting. Unfortunately my arrival startled the ducks but I saw a large muskrat, some grebes and some darting swallows overhead.
After I'd been there for half an hour, a couple of coots came out. And the hilarious thing is that they started grunting, which is a bizarre sound halfway between a quack and a fart. I couldn't keep my face straight because these black duck-like objects were floating just off the left side of the painting going "fffrrrrttack". If my camera had been working I would have put them into the picture but as it was still wet I had to leave it at inanimate objects.
This is a very small painting, so most of it was finished on location. I did a bit of refining in the studio but otherwise it stands. It's very... blue. I don't usually use phthalo, it's a bit overwhelming, even in small doses.
Acrylic on hardboard, 8x6".
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