Animal Quilt - Harpy Eagle

Well, I haven't painted any animals for a few weeks now. I got hung up and couldn't decide a few things. I decided to add a lowland gorilla and maybe a manatee but I haven't decided. I did discover a cute bird called a Quetzal and I'm thinking I'll add that to the border but back to the harpy eagle.

Since this bird lives in the deep jungle, I went for the darkest shade of green I had and painted the background and a branch and let this layer dry.

I used gray, white and a dark midnight blue to initially rough in the bird.

Finally, I used black to darken areas and white for additional highlighting. I also added some leaf shapes and squiggly yellow. Not sure why but it needed something to break up all that green and yellow peaks through green in the jungle and it just seemed to work out. Its about the animal not the backgrounds and I think this eagle turned out pretty good.

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