Finally all the background rocks are filled in.
Normally, I would paint the swan first than the background. But I wanted to
make sure the color and the rocks fitted in with the over all design of the painting.

Not quite happy with the color or how some of the rocks are filled in yet.
Another layer should fix all of that hopefully. Probably the left top of the
painting will be filled in with darker shadow.

Rocks being painted..... Hopefully I can get going on the swan pretty soon.

Some background added.


















This is from a black swan I saw at Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. They keep all spieces
of birds (not just flamingos) running around wildly by their pool area. At one point they
also kept penguins but they were moved to a zoo. Maybe the climate of hot desert in
Nevada was too hot for them. Anyways it's something I always go to when I am in Vegas.

New painting started.....

Samples of my work