Parents asked if I'd paint the lid to a 5x5" trinket box they'd picked up. It's for a beach house, so they wanted a beachy theme.

I paged through some of my vacation photos and found one of a running sandpiper, decided it was cute, and opted to paint that. I'm not sure precisely which sand piper species this is, but it frequents the Outer Banks, NC.

The neatest part of the whole thing is that, since I had to layer the paint over the wood's finish, I got to play around with texture, so the whole thing is slightly 3D, at least inasmuch as one could trace the form of the sandpiper with their fingers and know it was a bird. The same thing also happened w/the seafoam, which adds to the overall niftiness.

Also painted some running sandpiper footprints on the inside, but forgot to get a picture of them. ^_^;

Acrylic paints on wood (with  indigoangelcat rockin' a white paintpen to make that impossibly-awesome seafoam), plus a layer or two of matte finish clear coat to protect it from skin oils (since this is a functional piece).