I based this quick study painting on the rooster painting in Mark Daniel Nelson‘s 50 small paintings acrylic painting book.

I started out using Amsterdam Acrylic’s Turquoise Green, doing the outline using a burnt umber Liquitex paint marker. I found that for my in-progress photo I could not get the color I saw with my eyes to show up in the camera. The camera displayed a sky blue; in Adobe Photo Essentials, I was able to adjust the color to some degree, but as you can see from the below sample, I didn’t get the true color. (Not that it matters now; I painted the background a mix of Unbleached Titanium (Liquitex), Burnt Umber, and Yellow Ochre.

The true color of the background (turquoise green) was closer to this:

This was just a quickie — and unfinished — painting. The background is blue gray from Liquitex Basics.