A speed paint I did for a challenge over at Pixelbrush.net. The theme was Masquerade. I've always thought that it's a bit odd that when we draw peacocks we associate them with beautiful women... when the male birds are really the beautiful ones. So this was my attempt at making a masculine peacock mask design.

How'd I do?

Around two hours in Painter... mostly fiddling with making new brushes and playing with the impasto effects. This is, admittedly sloppier than I usually paint. It makes a lovely effect but I'm not sure if I could do paintings like this all the time. I keep wanting to refine them further.