Fanciful Plastic Flamingo Family Painting

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The flamingo is undeniably the star of southern yard kitsch. This Fanciful Plastic Flamingo Family Painting is the 5th in my Cottage Garden series. One of my favorite pastimes while traveling is to gaze upon the decorations in the yards as I go by. I also like to look for little cottages, old barns, and homesteads with lots of accumulation around them. Check out my first painting in the Humble Abode series of paintings here. I love to see the ingenuity employed by the people who dwell in these homes. Their front porch coolers, homemade clotheslines, and wooden tomato stakes are candy to the eyes and food for the imagination.

Iron Dragonflies Painting — **Cement Frog Couple, Iron Dragonflies, and Garden Gnome are other paintings in the *Cottage Garden* series.**

Cement Frog Couple Painting — **Cement Frog Couple, Iron Dragonflies, and Garden Gnome are other paintings in the *Cottage Garden* series.**

**I took a few pictures of other people’s flamingos, but ultimately purchased my own. Love them!**

**First I painted the 16″ by 20″ birch board with a bright Cobalt Blue.**

**I taped off the edges and main background sections with painter’s tape and began to fill in the grass.**

**I painted all the sections until they were opaque.**

**Time to remove the tape and paint the Fanciful Plastic Flamingo Family!**

**After carefully measuring the angles and drawing the lines of the rock bed, I painted the rocks with Browns, Grays, and Blacks.**

**The highlights were added to create the illusion of rounded bird bodies.**

**I enjoyed painting squiggly leaves in the trees.**

Fanciful Plastic Family Flamingo Family Painting — **The *Fanciful Plastic Flamingo Family Painting* in front of a tree.**

Happy Spring,

Kristie

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Comments

Pat says

March 22, 2021 at 11:10 am

You did an excellent job painting these flamingo lawn ornaments! They are so colorful in addition with the basket of Easter Eggs. at their feet.

Good luck selling your home–selling and moving is a big job –I can see I’ll someday be doing the same to downsize.

- Kristie Schubert says
  
  March 22, 2021 at 8:35 pm
  
  Thanks, Pat. Moving is stressful, but it’s too late to turn back now.
  
Donna @ Modern on Monticello says

March 24, 2021 at 10:06 am

I agree that flamingoes are just so much fun to see in a yard. Love your painting too. Thanks for sharing. #HomeMattersParty

- Kristie Schubert says
  
  March 30, 2021 at 9:12 am
  
  Thanks for hosting, Donna!

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