Duck, Duck, Goose!

This illustration has been painted twice now and I think I am happy with it this time.  The first one was very similar but void of any trees and it had a blue sky that became troublesome and looked a bit overcast!  Sigh!    I also imagined it with text and so I decided to frame some text with the two trees.  I thought I could find some cute little Mother Goose rhyme about duck, duck, goose and that search turned up a bit fat NO!  So this morning I sat down a wrote my little rhyme to place inside my illustration, please don't laugh.  I never claimed to be a writer or poet, I just like to work with images.  However, I will say that it came to mind rather easy and so I began to wonder if I had heard it before.  I decided to run it through Grammarly. This site  proofreads and checks for plagiarism and TA-DAH, it told me it was an original work (insert pat on back).


This painting was inspired by a friends photograph, thanks Joy.  My kids really look nothing like the kids in the photo but it is great to use the photo as reference for body positions and gestures.  I will leave you with some of my sketch work.  Have a great day!