Downy Duckling
This adorable duckling brought me so much joy to create. His colors are warm, bright, reassuring, and soft. Just as a duckling should be. I had little Downy on my heart after visiting our favorite plant nursery where they had the most adorable ducklings that had just been born.
Downy was born in just a few days before Halloween 2020 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and finished with white ink and Golden acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are ducks awesome? “ducks unintentionally plant miniature botanical gardens, which contain a cross section of local plants, at their roost sites. These gardens maintain a vault of genetic diversity—a sort of wild seed bank—to ensure that plant populations can be replenished even as the landscape changes around them. The ducks’ often-derided ubiquity makes them ideal vehicles to shuttle seeds from place to place—and that means healthier wetlands and biodiversity for the benefit of all birds and wildlife.” - audubon.org
This adorable duckling brought me so much joy to create. His colors are warm, bright, reassuring, and soft. Just as a duckling should be. I had little Downy on my heart after visiting our favorite plant nursery where they had the most adorable ducklings that had just been born.
Downy was born in just a few days before Halloween 2020 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and finished with white ink and Golden acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are ducks awesome? “ducks unintentionally plant miniature botanical gardens, which contain a cross section of local plants, at their roost sites. These gardens maintain a vault of genetic diversity—a sort of wild seed bank—to ensure that plant populations can be replenished even as the landscape changes around them. The ducks’ often-derided ubiquity makes them ideal vehicles to shuttle seeds from place to place—and that means healthier wetlands and biodiversity for the benefit of all birds and wildlife.” - audubon.org
This adorable duckling brought me so much joy to create. His colors are warm, bright, reassuring, and soft. Just as a duckling should be. I had little Downy on my heart after visiting our favorite plant nursery where they had the most adorable ducklings that had just been born.
Downy was born in just a few days before Halloween 2020 and created in pencil, ink, colored in Copic markers, and finished with white ink and Golden acrylic paint. This fine-art print is 5x5 inches and on 100% cotton, true baryta (barium sulfate) fiber paper that offers the density of a traditional darkroom FB-type paper to hold detail in the deep blacks of the shadow regions, while producing natural white highlights that’s enhanced with a slight fiber glossy surface texture.
Why are ducks awesome? “ducks unintentionally plant miniature botanical gardens, which contain a cross section of local plants, at their roost sites. These gardens maintain a vault of genetic diversity—a sort of wild seed bank—to ensure that plant populations can be replenished even as the landscape changes around them. The ducks’ often-derided ubiquity makes them ideal vehicles to shuttle seeds from place to place—and that means healthier wetlands and biodiversity for the benefit of all birds and wildlife.” - audubon.org