Oceanic Wanderer

I wanted to try painting an albatross and decided to use my canvas vertically to emphasize the long wings, but I got carried away with the sea and my obsession with trying to paint perfect sunbeams resurfaced! This made painting a larger bird unnecessary, I even wondered If I should paint one at all, though in the end I felt it added more atmosphere so went with a small one swooping in between the wave crests.
This is painted on a 55 x 40 cm canvas frame in acrylic paint.

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