[Acrylic on canvas, 24×36 inches]
Assignment: paint a natural object
This is one of my favorite projects from high school. I remember that I was one of the few students in the class that wasn’t using a photo as a reference; I had an actual peacock feather which I wanted to paint. It doesn’t really show in this photograph, but most of the feather is done in metallic craft paints which oddly enough were a good match for the actual feather’s colors.
The title comes from the name of a CBC miniseries that was running at the time. Of course, the painting has nothing to do with the series, but I thought it was a striking phrase.
An anecdote from working on this painting: the student teacher we had in the classroom at the time took my choice of subject to mean that I had an interest in peacocks in general (I don’t), so he showed me a picture of the Peacock Room.
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