- Scale
- 1:1
- Size
- 75 mm
- Category
- Painting
Duckling on a Wood Slice
A fluffy mallard duckling painted in acrylic on a slice of pine.
Price
NZ$45
plus shipping from New Zealand
3 left
Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 2.8x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
Not everything on my desk has tracks. In spring the duck pond down the road fills up with ducklings and I cannot walk past without stopping, so this is one of them, painted from a photo I took with my phone held about two centimetres off the water.
The slice is pine from a branch that came down in a storm, cut about a centimetre thick and dried for a few months so it would not split. I sealed the face, then painted the duckling in thin layers so the fluff looks soft rather than stripy. The bark is left on around the edge.
Each one is painted separately, so yours will be a close cousin of the one in the picture rather than a twin. There is a small brass hook on the back for hanging, or it will stand up on a shelf.
— Sunanda