Stage Comparisons for Acrylic Feather Painting

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Carolyn Travisano and I'm here to tell you about painting on feathers. What I decided to do is to show you different stages of how I do the feather. Because I do these and sell them, I normally do 4 feathers at a time. Basically, it's 2 hours each feather that it takes me. Then in between stages of drying is that really takes up the time because you don't want to be painting on top of wet paint. It has to be 100% dry before you go back in. Otherwise, you're just going to have a mess unless of course, you're doing shading. This is the first stage, which is the one you just saw me paint, of the mountain lion, not a bobcat. These 3 here I've started. This is again, the first stage where I'm laying down basically the solid colors for the backdrop. You see the hair and the first layer of flesh colored paint. This is the second stage that I have going here where it's a little bit darker and I'm actually starting to lay in where the different shadows will sit. As far as the darkness of the black and the hair, I added a lot more black to make it thicker and darker. I went and started laying down a lighter color for the face and a darker color for the neck. In this stage here, I'm starting to lay down a little bit more shadow and a little bit more light on the face. Now, the light you want to wait until one of your last stages or last steps before you start adding the light or basically the light areas. You can see how I started laying down the lights. I'll start working on this feather. This is basically the third stage."