Long tailed macauqe and greater racket tailed drongo at the Mac Ritchie forest
Primas and graphite on tinted Murano Art Paper (A1 size)
I have been without the camera for a long time until yesterday (finally got it repaired). However unavailability of the camera proved to be a good break from time spent photographing to much needed time spent sketching and painting. As I mentioned in my previous posts, I have been enjoying sketching birds in particular for its a challenge to capture the basic form and features in very limited time. Its good drawing practice and a step (hopefully) towards a serious interest in birding. Instead of a new camera, I got my old one repaired.. and got myself a pair of binoculars (better late than never!) which open a whole new world of perspectives and compositions. Its not just about magnification, its liberating..when you want to feel like a part of the habitat rather than a spectator. Anyways, I hope it will help me paint better and more!
2 comments:
Another beautiful post with such accurate sketches and detailed painting! You capture so many layers of detail in your paintings, you must have special eyes that see so much! Pls keep more paintings coming! I am especially fond of birds (more colorful the better!), so I look forward to your bird paintings soon :)
Hi Rupa,
Thank you for the sweet comment:) I believe sometimes the way a painting turns out is pure chance - the basic vines were drawn from a jungle photo I took sometime back and once I started rendering the leaves, it just ended up like this. I must say my arms were aching for a while after all that colored pencil:)
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