Strandman
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Greetings all. Succumbed to the lure of Hayle WB Diver earlier in the week- there's just something about the big divers. A certain placid swarthy presence that nothing else can match (except possibly a bison, if that makes any sense as a comparison).
Anyway, squandered far too much time on close-ups with the evil Nikon, but came away with a painting firmly in mind of a croc-style attack on couple of Little Grebes. Attached are my working drawings so far of the episode pretty much as seen and recalled - first is the usual biro + finger painted coffee combo (no idea why I gave it a Black-throated Diver's head), second is scanned in and recomposed with head kneaded into shape, third with a digi-splash of colour to help work out where the light and dark will go.
But the plan is that the end result will be a proper painting on proper paper, using pencil, brushes, paint, all that stuff...the main technical problems current and expected (apart from remembering how to use paint) are how to maintain enough distance btween WBD and the grebes without having a hole in the middle of the painting- as the grebes lifted off at some distance when they saw monster boy coming. Also challenging will be the water - the strongest feature of the scene in true life was the shiny lines of WBD's wake (more obvious than the bird itself) crossing the more feeble wind blown ripples on the water.
Anyway, squandered far too much time on close-ups with the evil Nikon, but came away with a painting firmly in mind of a croc-style attack on couple of Little Grebes. Attached are my working drawings so far of the episode pretty much as seen and recalled - first is the usual biro + finger painted coffee combo (no idea why I gave it a Black-throated Diver's head), second is scanned in and recomposed with head kneaded into shape, third with a digi-splash of colour to help work out where the light and dark will go.
But the plan is that the end result will be a proper painting on proper paper, using pencil, brushes, paint, all that stuff...the main technical problems current and expected (apart from remembering how to use paint) are how to maintain enough distance btween WBD and the grebes without having a hole in the middle of the painting- as the grebes lifted off at some distance when they saw monster boy coming. Also challenging will be the water - the strongest feature of the scene in true life was the shiny lines of WBD's wake (more obvious than the bird itself) crossing the more feeble wind blown ripples on the water.