White Doves using a Dovecote

White Doves using a Dovecote 

 

This Oil painting illustrates a white painted Dovecote, with a number of Doves using it. The Dovecote is mounted on a wooden pole and was located in a field in Hampshire, UK. The roof is made up of a few pieces of corrugated metal and the wood sides are in desperate need of a repaint, though it seems popular with the Doves, walking in and out of the small openings built in.

It is painted on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12”, and took an afternoon to do, painting wet in to wet. The image is painted on to a red acrylic base, to help give the oil colours something to bounce off.

White Doves using a Dovecote

Princess releasing bird

Princess releasing Bird

This was painted in photoshop around early February 2010, but I was never that happy with it. I left it a few weeks and added flowers and more tonal work to help bring it out a bit more, as I felt is was too flat, despite the prospective. It does look better now. Ironically I was expecting the figure (in perspective) to be the most difficult element here but it was not after all.

from the website...
This illustration depicts a princess releasing a white dove to freedom in the grounds of her home. The angle is looking down at the action to show the release of the bird, leaving the girl behind on the ground.

Painted in 2011.