Last time I posted I said I wanted to paint a more red squirrel than the ones I’d just painted…
I started by choosing a reference photo with a squirrel that looked a lot more red…
I painted the tail and was really pleased with it – it’s great fun painting squirrel’s tails. (I may have mentioned that before.) Then I painted the body.
It’s more more red, but I got way carried away; far too much paint. Reminder to self: Once in a while take a step back and look at what you’ve done. On the plus side, I do like the loose leaves underneath – although on reflection I think it would have been better if the bottom of his legs had merged with them – like the horse’s mouth I recently painted merging into the grass.
Ah well, all good learning.
Until next time,
Bekki x
Dartmoor Creative - Bekki Hill 
Beautiful! We have reds in our part of Northumberland. So much prettier than those pesky grey interlopers.
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Thank you. How lovely for you. Such a shame the greys have pushed out our native reds.
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Bless! The colours are better aren’t they.
I’ve only ever seen red squirrels here and their colours vary – sometimes they seem almost black.
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I think so 😊
Black! 😱 Are you sure they’re not vampire bats? 😉
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You can always paint a leaf over them just might have to balance the rest of the leaves out with some deeper saturation to blend the foot covers
It looks lovely and I really love your blue squirrel
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Hello. Thank you. I think you’re right – always something you can do to improve what you don’t like. But think I’m for starting a new painting and taking what I’ve learned on to my future pictures, since anything I’m painting now is all learning and never going to find itself onto anyone’s wall.
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