Duck Stamp

The main Idea guided my artwork was to choose specific duck from a species and create a drawing of the duck. The duck I chose was a Long Tailed Duck 

The materials I used was watercolor and colored pencils. I started off with lightly sketching out the duck with an 4H pencil then I went in with watercolor and lightly painted the background with blue, then I went in with black to lightly paint the parts of the duck that is has black. After I finished with the water color I used color pencil to over it to make the duck look more detailed and smooth.

I originally was going to do a Swan but after think about it I was pulled towards the long tailed, most of the images where I found online looked about the same( Long Tailed swimming in water) so I had a bit of trouble combining different pictures together. I also had trouble with the water I had a hard time making it not look flat and add the wave details that are in the pictures.