Coloured Ground Experiment - 2023 12 25

 


The images I use for drawing are all collected with my phone camera. The crows are picked up on our dog walks through the neighbourhood, caught in a moment of being close enough but usually getting ready or actively moving to put more distance between us. The amount of detail I am able to capture depends on the angle of the sun in relation to the position of the crow. Nine times out of ten I don't have enough detail to elaborate feather edges but there is always enough character. Often I don't know what the crow is telling me until I start to work on the drawing and discover what comes through the lines.

These drawings are experiments on a canvas coloured ground that I tinted years ago and then never made a picture. I transferred the technique I have been developing on paper to the canvas. I am enjoying the results so far. 

This is work in progress. There will be at least two or three more layers to apply and see what happens.

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