Second skua painting ... hues, composition, everything just GORGEOUS. Perfect!!!
A piece worked up in the studio from encounters over the past few days;
'Shades of Skuas' - watercolour, 22"x15"
if you are able to reveal such mysteries, how many coats o' paint go into for example the breast of the dark phase bird: is it wet into wet and some texture on top, or is it a few more coats than that?
I was leafing through Keith Brockie's 'Wildlife Sketchbook' last night, and noticed that a number of his drawings were from Orkney back in 1980. Have you been to any of the same places mentioned in his book to sketch the same birds? Just curious.
There must have been many artists over the years who spent time on Orkney - I assume you don't know who the 'Fair Isle' artist is back in 1958, in post 4 ....... http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=173564
Atb,
Keith.
thoroughly, thoroughly wonderful.