Watercolor Workshop-Finishing the Osprey Painting

This is the second part of a two-part post, a step-by-step
of a scene depicting a Scottish osprey spending his winter in Senegal. It’s for
an upcoming book by Alan Poole.







Here is an ultra close up of the beach and wave interface.
You can see the masking fluid, dried, still adhering to the paper. You can also
see that I’ve sprinkled kosher salt into the dark wet wash. Salt is

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Watercolor Painting Workshop-Osprey!

I’ve been blessed with a commission, doing five or so
paintings for an upcoming book by Alan Poole, one of the world’s foremost
authorities on ospreys. You may remember him, last seen cooking local bay
scallops for me and Erin in his lovely coastal Massachusetts home. I’ve worked
with Alan for a decade starting in 1991, in his former capacity as Editor of The Birds of North America: Life

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