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Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.
Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.
Detail of the wing and tail feathers from a painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with a penny for scale.
Detail from a painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies. The detail focuses on the peahen's head and is photographed with a penny and a brush for scale.
Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with a penny and a traditional Chinese brush for scale.
Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with the artist's thumb and index finger for scale.
Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.
  1. Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.
  2. Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.
  3. Detail of the wing and tail feathers from a painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with a penny for scale.
  4. Detail from a painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies. The detail focuses on the peahen's head and is photographed with a penny and a brush for scale.
  5. Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with a penny and a traditional Chinese brush for scale.
  6. Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies, photographed with the artist's thumb and index finger for scale.
  7. Painting on a square coaster of a pied peahen surrounded by pink peonies.

Pied Peahen and Peonies

by Natee

Pied Peahen and Peonies
Gouache and acrylic gouache on MDF coaster, 98 mm square

I wanted to paint on coasters like the cool kids. This piece ended up taking an inordinately long time to complete for what I had aimed for as something relatively ‘simple.’ Its being a miniature certainly accounts in part for it, though that in itself is hardly a departure for me. It may have more to do with using exclusively opaque media as opposed to my beloved watercolours; in particular, acrylic gouache, which demands altogether different handling as much as a different mental approach. Acrylic gouache also makes brushes expand; an especially vexing issue for me, so accustomed to my sharply pointed brushes, free-flowing water media, and intricate detail.

The peahen’s neck is more a sort of teal-blue-green in actuality, but unfortunately, neither my extremely indifferent phone camera nor my scanner (which is already curiously predisposed towards blue) were equal to capturing this, translating it into a flat, plain blue on screen.

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Illustrator based in London, U.K. Fond of natural history, literary classics, mythology, fairy tales and folklore. Previous publishing clients include Walker Books, Candlewick Press, The Folio Society, Templar, Oxford University Press, and Random House.





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