Pelican Study 17

Pelican Study, 6x6, oil

I have jumped to day 17 as I am tired of messing with day 16's painting. After two days of trying to get a photo worth posting I refuse to spend anymore time on it. The painting was the first in a series of pelican studies; it is of 3 pelicans standing on 3 posts along the beach. I want to do these studies to work towards a bigger piece I have in mind. In the 10 days I was in Florida this past November I never got tired of watching this amazing birds. We get the white pelicans through Denver twice a year but I can never get as close to them as I was able to the brown.