Neapolitan Ice Cream Colors

The second artist trading card (ATC) swap that I participated in, involved making ATCs using the Neapolitan ice cream colors of vanilla (cream), strawberry (pink) and chocolate (brown).  Doesn’t that sound so yummy?

Before I make my ATCs, I do a sort of trial run first in my mixed media notebook.  For this swap, I immediately thought of birds.  I wondered if there were pink birds.  And yes!  There is  really a pink bird.  That day I went to pinterest and a pin came up of a Rose colored Finch!  Imagine that!  Boy did I learn a lot about rose finches!  There are several different varieties.  Some are called Great Spotted Rose Finches and some are Pallas Rose Finches and I can’t remember the others.  But they are beautiful birds to look upon.

In the top photo, I painted a rose finch in the style of Brian Wildsmith, one of my favorite illustrators.  Here are some photos from my mixed media art book:

Here are what they look like:

The swap ends on September 13, so I still have to wait to see what I get in exchange.

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