Inktober 2025: 5 - Deer

[Image ID] Watercolour painting of antlered deer skulls mounted on the wall around a fireplace[description end]

Due to something I had planned for a later prompt I didn’t want to paint a deer, so instead I decided to do some of those mounted animal skulls often seen in old stately homes. Particularly, for this scene, I was inspired by a room at Belvoir Castle.

This was one of those paintings where it didn’t come out at all like how it was in my head but there came a point where I had to accept that this was as good as it was going to get.

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Artwork ©Dragonsflyatsunset 2026, all rights reserved.