Sunflowers to Bluebirds

Bluebird
5x7 Oil

The Bluebirds are  back!  So I took a few hours from painting sunflowers to painting Bluebirds.


Their such wonderfully colored birds with a kind eye and I do love to paint them.

Sunflowers, Sunflowers, and more Sunflowers

 Sunflowers are the subject for "A Painting A Day" Facebook page that a friend started.  So here are a couple of quick studies.  Most took only a 1/2 hour or so..
The two lighter paintings which gambit to a lighter sepia tonal color scheme are the result of cleaning up the palette.   Always a good exercise to use a limited palette but I think what was left on the palette was just a bit to sparse in terms of darks.  But they still look pretty.  :)

5x7 Oil

8x10 oil

11x14 Oil

11x14 Oil