Tag: sheep art
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Rescuing sheep
I rescued some sheep! Well, not literally… just this picture, which I’d had a bit of a watercolour disaster with. But using the technique of overlaying pastels that we learned at Windermere Art Society the other week, I managed to resuscitate it! Does anyone else have interesting ways of rescuing art when it goes horribly…
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Herdies say “hey”
Or should that be “hay”? Anyway, here’s the watercolour version of my hungry sheep! I may still add some detail to the foreground but it’s very much a pen-and-wash so I don’t want to go in too heavy with the paint. What do you think?
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More sheep…
This is my second ever attempt at drawing sheep (a couple of Herdwicks photographed in Keswick) by hand. It’s not perfect (I swear they moved when I wasn’t looking, lol) but they have a certain charm… I’m hoping to do a pen-and-wash style thing by adding watercolour soon so watch this space.
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Hide and sheep!
I’m still experimenting with drawing from scratch in fineliner pen/ink and it’s much better than I expected. This is a little scene of three Herdwick sheep trying to convince everyone they were hidden behind a tree and a fence post, which I snapped near Hawkshead earlier this year. I’m thinking of calling it Hide and…
