Birthday Duck

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Daffy the Duck

Happy birthday to my Little Sister! This year I painted her favorite duck, Daffodil (affectionately known as Dafffy) on her birthday card. Daffy is one of the three ducks we raised from day-old ducklings this spring; however, the other two are brown and much smaller. I don't think Daffy cares! It's so cute waddling around after them. Of course I had to include a tub of water in my painting--Daffy sticks to its pool like, well, a duck takes to water! What strikes me about this painting is how impressionistic it looks. And I didn't even intend that when I painted it with leftover colors on my palette. Just look at that brown tone showing through the blue water surface; the splotches and strokes of green paint on the bushes; even how the blue sky is dabbed in around the leaves . . . it's sad how the nicest things come about by accident!