Hey everybody it's Darcy, I hope you're doing well. So we're going to have a fun quick video today. I'm going to be watercolor painting a peacock. Now if you wait till the very end I've actually dubbed in the sound of peacock makes and it's pretty annoying. So anyway, stick on till the end and just to hear that it'll be worth it. Please like and subscribe and share the video with your friends. Hope you have a good day. Here we go. So I like to start with the eyes a lot of time and not just on my bird and fish portraits but also my human portraits. When I do those I did do a Steve Corella. I put a link up top there for you to look at it. And the reason I do the eyes or the most what I feel is one of the most important things of the painting first is because I tend to try really hard to make it look good and then that gives me inspiration to keep trying hard to do the rest of the painting well. For example if I just started did the beak and the beak didn't turn out I would probably throw it out and start over again. So I tend to try and really work hard on the eyes in this case. Now I've got to admit this is how silly I am. I wasn't out to paint a peacock. I saw this picture this reference photo of this bird which happened to be a peacock and I was painting away and painting away and then finally when I was done I said to myself I would or kind of a birth this is and I looked it up and I said man this is a peacock how did I not know that but I guess growing up as a as a child there's a peacock and a zoo in my city here I haven't seen a real peacock in 35 or 40 years but anyway I've always just sort of looked at the feathers the big tail feathers because that's typically what's so prominent about a peacock and I didn't even know this was a peacock head but then as I was looking through I thought oh well there you go. The one thing about this bird that I did noticed that I thought was kind of neat it doesn't have traditional head feathers that are sort of soft and laying on top of each other it actually has like cushions of little feathers or bunches or almost like little marshmallows that's probably a terrible word I know but they're little plops of feathers so when I was doing that to paint the detail it was a little bit easier you can see just right there how I'm just kind of putting little dots in and it was so much easier to do that than to try and figure out how to do flatt of layers there's a little bit of white gouache on the eye to have the highlight pop out a bit there as well. Lots of different blues as you can see I think I had five different blues ranging from Prussian blue, Ultramarine blue I had a blue yellow tint in there as well so that was kind of neat. The beak as I was doing the beak it didn't really have a prominent color it was almost like a fleshy violet pinkish tone and now right there that's where the feathers were sort of laying a little bit better more like a normal bird if I could call it that but that back tail feather it's not a tail feather it's a head feather that was a crazy looking thing to do but you can see on the top of the head there it was just a matter of plopping down paint in so it was actually kind of easy as a nice change a little bit of green underneath for not so much they've got a nice palette in their feathers between the blues and the greens it was mostly blue but anyway if you like this type of video please hit like and subscribe I really enjoy doing this one it was a fun one took me about 50 minutes there's a little extensions on the back holding up his I don't know what to call it a crown so what you would call it leave me a comment below if you think it's a crown or if you've got a better idea head dress maybe it's a head dress I'll score with head dress that sounds better but hope you're having a great day and thanks very much and I'm going to cancel out my voice so you can actually hear what a peacock sounds like it's maybe even a little bit annoying anyway have a great day