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Painting Percy the Pelican

PAINTING PERCY THE PELICAN

Percy the Pelican was the family pet and I was asked to paint him. I said I normally don't do

pelicans but then remembered I had a successful painting of a small wave and thought it might

be possible to combine the two! (See 'how to paint waves', in a previous section)

I also was reminded just how much pelicans look like old fashioned sailing ships, and I had

painted plenty of those.

It did occur to me however, that some of these pelicans can be quite large and intimidating so

maybe having them sailing away from the viewer might be the thing to do. It should be a cinch

then ...

And so it turned out with the first painting, a great success to all the local pelican lovers. I

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