Angry Duck Studio

I wanted a GMail address to go along with this blog, but someone already grabbed SquareStudio. I managed to get AngryDuckStudio at Gmail dot com instead. Not bad, I guess, but as a result I have decided to change the blog's name to match.

No, I have no current plans to change the namesake Angry Duck painting. It's messy and it's going to stay that way, maybe forever.

Despite a name that makes kids laugh, peacocks are pretty amazing, at least visually.

A couple things happened here:

1. I thought it would be interesting to do a completely unnatural background for an animal portrait.

2. I found that I couldn't really paint a peacock, but I accepted that fact and did it anyway.

I love his 'WTF?!' facial expression.


Peacock, at the End of the World
Acrylic on canvas board

OK, the first version was better in some ways. This one (3rd or 4th, depending on how you look at it) is more experimental.

I wanted distinct boundaries between background and subject. There's a lot more motion. It's bolder (silly for a duck, but possible) and more aggressive (but I had sense enough not to actually add teeth).

It's sloppy, but I like it. QUACK!

I've remarked a few times now about how I wish painting had an undo button. Well, sort of , it does! It's called 'more paint'!

I tried to finish Angry Duck this weekend, but ended really messing it up. The sky was too green, the ground was too childish. So I pressed the undo button and painted over both of them. So, I'm still not finished with that one.


I also worked on my version of the Magnolia Flower. I was able to undo the squished frog greenery and put in a proper stalk, twig and leaves. I also added more color to the petals, 'cause it's fun. I don't love it, but I'm much happier with it now.

I was so excited the other day to get my first comment.

Unfortunately it was just a list of keyword hyperlinks, apparently to porn sites. While I did get a laugh from some of the link titles ('Bus Driver Whores', anyone?), I promptly deleted the comment and turned a couple of Blogger's comment security features on.

Hopefully that will be the end of that.