Tag: bird art
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Definitely drawing geese
I thought I’d better practice drawing some of the geese I photographed the other day before I set to work on the actual project – since I’d never tried anything bigger than a swallow before. This is my first attempt, in pen and ink. Not bad if I do say so myself!
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Drawing geese?
I spent some time on the shore of Windermere the other day, taking lots of photos of the Canada geese that frequent (aka run riot in!) the area for a possible new project. And what might that project be? Well, it’s in the very early stages of planning at the moment so it’s all a…
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Lots of bird art
We visited the wonderful bird art exhibition at Rheged (near Penrith) the other day and were blown away. I’d expected to see some great art and that was there in spades with original paintings, prints, sculpture, needlecraft etc. But there was also so much more – legends about birds, poetry about birds, facts about birds,…
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Trying pen and wash
For our last session of Windermere Art Society for the season, there was a fantastic demo and workshop on the techniques of drawing in waterproof ink and then highlighting with watercolour. I enjoyed the session so much I completely lost track of time – in fact the picture was still wet when I came to…
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Pen and ink and cormorants
Wow who knew a fineliner pen could give results like this?! I never dared use one before the last art society workshop because you can’t erase mistakes, but that gave me confidence and I’ll definitely be trying more in future. This is one of the wonderful cormorant statues on Morecambe prom, which I took a…
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Swan drawing framed
Yay! That’s the first of my pictures all finished, framed and ready to go off to the Windermere Art Society exhibition in August. This charcoal drawing is based on a photo of a rather pushy swan I “met” by the lake shore in Bowness a few years ago. It was clearly after my sandwiches, so…
