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| The BrunZ |
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| Placed shadows 1st, then my fave animal colors - quin. burnt orange, and quin. violet |
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| Keep building up with same pigments |
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| Almost looking like a horse |
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| More modelling |
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| I just added the mane/forelock. Looks like it needs more depth |
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| Some quick sketches I did from photos on a friend's site Peter, these are your birds. I tried for over an hour to find out what that big-footed bird is - I still don't know. |
I have only done a bit of playing around with pencil and brush today. The study of Bruno is on a 9 x 10.5 inch piece of Arches 140 lb. CP. I wanted to try putting down the dark cast shadows first, and then work the painting from there. It seemed to do well, but I felt very constricted working on something that small. I don't think I would make a very good "daily painter".
The birds are based on photos from a friend's blog. He was out in "his" park the other day, where there is actually spring weather happening, and took some great photos.
That brings me to Ray Bradbury and Venus. He wrote a superb book, "The Illustrated Man" [which was also made into a credible movie] The book was comprised of several short stories based on the tattoos on a man's body. One of the tales was about three astronauts trapped on Venus. This Venus had a breathable atmosphere, but it was CONSTANTLY raining so heavily that if you were outside without protective gear, you would more than likely go mad. OK, weird and extreme. [I loved it; I lived on science fiction when I was younger] To make a long story even longer, our weather here on the "Wet Coast" definitely reminds me of that story.
Cheers! And I hope you are having better weather wherever you are. Thank you for dropping by!!!
