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'Farm Animal Fun' is a cartoon painting of farm animals painted for my 2 year old nephew. Cows and tractors are big favourites of his at the moment, in part because there is a herd of cows in the field next to my sister's garden. Anyway, I started out with a few line drawings of different animals as shown below:
I also came across this cartoon bee from a couple of years ago that I thought would sit nicely in a corner somewhere
And here's the finished painting,
It's about 20"x30" on canvas, the butterfly and bee wings are painted with interference acrylics to give them an iridescent finish, plenty of colourful cows huddled in the corner, notice one cow has snaffled a candy cane and is munching away, the pigs are looking happy at the completely unhealthy (well apart from the apples) feast in front of them, while the lambs they are a leaping. I actually drew the feathers on the chicken with watercolour marker and then painted over these with acrylic, this caused the lines to blur a little, but I like the effect so I've left it as is (the idea is similar to another technique I've used recently). Finally there's a bright red tractor on the hill! Hopefully it will be well received! :-)
