Peacock Pillow

Just finished this painting, it was barely dry by the time I was scanning it in. I’m not too fond of this piece, The techniques I used to paint this didn’t work too much in my favour and the overall result came out more messy than I planned. The idea was to create a vibrant, marble like watercolour to reflect the peacock’s colour scheme, but the watercolours would bleed and simply not dry quickly enough to create random colour variations. I think part of the probem was the composition here, since the body of the peacock is relatively small when the feathers are included and although they are part of the main characteristic associated with peacocks, there’s a lot of blank space and un-interesting colour in the feather area.