Mermay Day 7 🧜‍♀️ / Garden of Friends 🦆🌼 - Process (Patreon)

Hi Patrons! 🧡

Here's my Mermay for Day 7! I wanted to paint a garden with cute little ducks surrounding the mermaid stone statue! This took longer than I anticipated since I was struggling with the lighting so I had to make several changes! 

I might do something simple tomorrow to take a break from the background! I don't want to burn myself out! Despite the challenges, it was so much fun painting ducks and ducklings! I thought it would be cute for the ducks to visit the statue every once in a while! 🦆🦆

For the last image, I made some colour adjustments using: 

Selective colour (Reds & Yellows), Hue and Saturation, Curve Tool, Brightness and Contrast 

I rely on adjustment layers to really make the colours pop! It's one of my favourite steps to do when I finish a painting!

Thank you so much for your support everyone! 🧡🧡