After a visit from UW-L alumni Eric Hanson, I was truly inspired by his work and wanted to try my hand at multi-plate color. Back in my adolescent print days when I was first learning color, I had never completely understood how multi-plate worked so I shied away from it. I decided to do a peacock partly because of its beautiful colors, but always because I feel they are very closely related to humans. During the summers I work at a place that has many peacocks running free, and they never cease to amaze me as they being to molt late in the summer. These beautiful birds quickly loose all their long tail feathers and are stripped back to being slightly awkward looking creatures. It makes me sad to see how much they change from the beginning of the summer to early fall. They are aggressive and pushy towards their potential mates in the spring. Then as the feathers fall they become skiddish and unsteady. They are much more enjoyable to be around when they aren't trying to impress anyone.
