colleenc
Well-known member
thanks Deborah, have to say the birds are so inspiring I already have more ideas to paint than I probably have life left to do it... I could spend a year or two just mastering the egrets
Here is a duck page, my second try at these, mallards, some in the direct wc style, still missing it but got a little closer. I've noticed this as a pattern, first drawings of new birds OMG:eek!:...second ones settling in but missing the small little changes that make it really be that bird, third to 10th, seeing something new each time and adding to the picture, and finally its "in my hand"... enough observation and practice has happened that the basic forms are known without a struggle and I can really begin to respond to what I see.
On this page is also a juve green heron, a partial chipmunk, and a red nappped sap sucker ( looked it up at home) and in this sentence is contained the pure joy that comes from being a new "birder". Suddenly one pays attention to everything around one at that time and things I would have missed completely because I was looking at the view or the "subject" come into play and expand the moment to timelessness, and one forgets all the "stuff" that usually fills our heads and prevents this.
Here is a duck page, my second try at these, mallards, some in the direct wc style, still missing it but got a little closer. I've noticed this as a pattern, first drawings of new birds OMG:eek!:...second ones settling in but missing the small little changes that make it really be that bird, third to 10th, seeing something new each time and adding to the picture, and finally its "in my hand"... enough observation and practice has happened that the basic forms are known without a struggle and I can really begin to respond to what I see.
On this page is also a juve green heron, a partial chipmunk, and a red nappped sap sucker ( looked it up at home) and in this sentence is contained the pure joy that comes from being a new "birder". Suddenly one pays attention to everything around one at that time and things I would have missed completely because I was looking at the view or the "subject" come into play and expand the moment to timelessness, and one forgets all the "stuff" that usually fills our heads and prevents this.