Duck Stamp 2023

Duck Stamp 2023

9" x 12"

Acrylic paint, white gel pen, bristol paper

he main idea that guided this was to capture the male Steller's Eider with the babies, in a habitat they would naturally be in.

I began with sketching it out in pencil. Then I started with the background and worked my way forward with acrylic. Once it got to the reflections and ripples in the water I began with the gel pen and a blue ish paint.

Some processes I went through were inverting the duck so it wasn't exactly like the original perspective. Another process I went through was kind of making up the baby birds with my own brain. I could hardly find any pictures of them so I took a bit of a risk.