Comparison of Techniques in 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. Okay, here's a couple of different designs and paintings that I have done in the past. I thought I'd go over with you different techniques that I used for each one because they're going to be different. For the wolf, or bear depending on what you'd like to call it. This one, unfortunately, I have a glossy coating over top of it, which I am going to spray with a matte because it's just too glossy for it. When I went back in for the detail of the fur and the eyes, I actually used a felt tip black magic marker to give it a little bit more detail and definition and just to pop out the eyes a little bit more and make the fur look more touchable. Now, with this particular one, it's another portrait of a Native American. With this, he has a lot of wrinkles and a lot of detail in him, in his hair, in this jewelry, and throughout his face. What I did is I used a very, very, very fine brush. There's probably about 10 bristles on here. Went in very lightly. Not a dark colored paint but very thin. This was the very final stage where I went in and created all the lines throughout it. It's not like a building process like we doing earlier. It's basically a shadow that you were using in color to go back in and define the wrinkles. Again, with his eyes, I didn't use a magic marker anywhere on this piece. It's all by paintbrush."