Vanity shot

I love the grand attempt at self-shots, here I am hiking Yosemite this past spring.

My latest painting "Updraft" in Acrylic

An arctic tern, fairly transparent. In Acrylic. I began the background at my friend Eva's house, but had barely any time to work on it, so I brought it home to work it out, it's been refreshing.

progress... added beak/feet.

I think I'm done, added more texture to the sea. Yay! I like the transparent effect of the bird, I'm pleasantly surprised since color isn't my forte, I thought I might go for silhouette, but ended up happy with it. I feel that the sea might be wanting, but not sure where I would go from there, so I left it for now, I think I'm done though. I didn't want to overdo the ocean so the focus would stay on the flight of the bird.