Animal party is one of my favorite animal paintings. It’s actually a digital collage of three separate paintings; The series Animal Party I, II and III.
I used the magic of my favorite graphic application, Adobe Photoshop, to merge the three together with a little bit of fancy cut, blend and paste. Taking care to move some animals from one section of one painting to another to create one lush, flowing jungle scene. Animal Party Remix spotlights the glory of all the animals. The individual uniqueness of each peering out at you from a fecund jungle backdrop. I love the lion’s eyes. He’s not quite a sad lion but he’s got some kind of issues going on there.
I particularly enjoyed painting the peacock. They have the most difficult feathers to paint of any bird because each feather has that little eye that you must paint if you want it to look authentic. You can’t just brush over it or fake it, you have to actually do the work.