Following on from the falling frogs, these are collaged birds cut from cartridge that was painted mostly black on the reverse and colourful on what I’d intended to be the front. There are seven different shapes along with some separate … Continue reading Black birds
I’ve been including cats in my paintings, largely because they’re in most of my photos, and making a supreme effort to have them as cat shapes in the same way the foliage hints at what it might be rather than … Continue reading Post 3.3 second tutorial
I have in my sketch book a series of drawings of the metal birds my sister bought me for Christmas. I’d drawn them several times for different angles and began to get a feel of the shapes so that these rather than detail and gesture instead of tinkered lines began to predominate. One stood out (thank you, tutor) and I was prompted to try taking that kind of looseness into a larger frame. This is it; prismatic pencil on sugar paper, folded and inserted into an A5 sketchbook. Today I used the same sugar paper in an A4 sketchbook and … Continue reading Tutorial follow up – bigger birds
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