Finished Eagle Ornaments

Teaching myself to paint eagles is going to take a lot more practice but I think the early results are encouraging and I find it an interesting challenge to see what happens when I try painting this design on different sizes and shapes of ornaments...other ideas come to mind like small boxes, furniture or cabinet doors...

Big Eagle ornament step by step

1.Carve, sand and base coat your wooden ornament

                                     2.Paint a simple sky in blue and white

 3.Begin painting your trees in which ever technique you prefer.

 a. the dark green goes on first!

4. Add highlights in a lighter green

       5.Double load a liner brush with brown and white to add peeks of the tree trunks

               6. Follow a photo and do your best to add an eagle. (I'm just figuring out how to do it myself but as soon as I can teach myself I'll do my best to show you.)

Sanding horses and painting eagles

People are really liking the landscape horse and asked for more so I'm enjoying the opportunity to really learn to paint eagles. I'd never tried them before so I'm excited to be learning something new and making people happy at the same time.
I'm still sanding and can't wait to get to the painting. It might help to see some real eagles or have a small model to work with but for the time being I'll have to work from photos and will post the results as soon as I have any.

Improved Design with Eagle

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