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The Change of Seasons

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My entry for =Katie-Cuddles's contest "Changing of the Seasons."

Phew! I somehow managed to NOT kill my hand working on this, though I'm not sure how that happened. I set out knowing I wanted to go into lots of detail with this painting; I didn't know I'd go into quite this much! I also didn't plan, when I first started, to include spring and fall, but they seemed like they could be added naturally.

So...
Spring - the flower
Summer - the wood grouse
Autumn - the leaves
Winter - the winter wood grouse / ptarmigan

The birds are both supposed to be wood grouse (grouses? grice?) but the winter one is actually a ptarmigan. It looked close enough to what I wanted that I felt comfortable enough using it.

I'm really in love with this piece. Even if it did kill what was left of my brain.

References:
Summer Grouse - Alan Vernon
Ptarmigan - american_male
Autumn Leaves - doortoriver
Daisy - The Suss-Man (Mike)
all on Flickr.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Art (c) me.
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Crystal-LJ's avatar
Very nice. I'll have to check more of your gallery later when the stick collecting is done. :XD: