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Mallard Duck

Anas platyrhynchos

Watercolour Bird Wildlife Painting

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Watercolour on Paper 2000

16 x 12 ins

private collection

 

A Watercolour Bird Painting of a Mallard Drake (male). 

This is probably Britain's best-known species of Duck and 

is to be seen on almost any stretch of water from rivers, 

lakes and canals to small ponds.

 

Painting Technique:

As with most of my Watercolours, no white paint was 

used, the lighter areas are just the Watercolour Paper 

showing through. I chose not to give this painting too 

high a finish, preferring to leave it with an Illustration

type feel. Art Masking Fluid was applied over the Mallard

to protect it from the broad Watercolour Washes as they

were applied to the water. The rubber solution Art Masking 

Fluid was then peeled away and the details of the Mallard

Duck Painting were painted using a selection of fine Sable

Paint Brushes.

 

I painted a picture of a female Mallard Duck with a similar 

composition but didn't make a photographic record of it.

The female Mallard Duck is much more drably coloured in

various shades of brown. 

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