Rubber Ducky Painting

Rubber Ducky is part of an ongoing series of small paintings completed in one sitting as an exercise to keep my observational drawing and colour mixing skills sharp. This small painting is on fibre board (mdf). Given the object I chosen to paint, it naturally has a kitschy quality. I have also really strived to get the rubberiness of the duck. I enjoy making these small object studies using thick paint and broad brushes, I like the interplay of accurate detail and obvious brush marks which giveaway the images construction.