My Dance I Think! by James Hamilton

Super little ducks.

Lovely piece - showy ducks, beautifully captured.

Painting these decorative little ducks (Mandarin ducks, I think?) is hard: because it's not easy to make them look natural - indeed, they don't always look all that natural anyway, in the flesh and feather.... But you've most emphatically managed to make them look like real, genuine birds, and not highly painted decoys. It would be fascinating to see your bigger picture later, if you do move beyond "hope to" ... I like the title, too. Making the water greenish helps to offset the reds and oranges in the drake's plumage; may I suggest only that you make the reflections a little more "watery", by breaking up edges and limiting the number of sharper darks, especially those beneath the duck. I think a wetter, not necessarily lighter, wash would achieve that. It's a typically nit-picking detail, I know, but I just think you can afford to be looser here, and that it would help your dancing ducks to dance just that bit more.

Thank you Lesley,Seok and Robert for your kind comments,I take every thing you said onboard Robert,It was a very quick sketch but when I do a bigger picture I shall take a bit more time on the water feature as you suggested.