Husb and I went to the Mission Gallery’s new show opening tonight and nearly fell over with the heatwave after about 10 minutes so we left and strolled along the seafront on our way home and came across this dead bird. It’s some sort of crow and was fairly recently dead as only a couple of flies had found it. Such a beautiful creature, black and glossy and at repose. Then as we arrived home, some friends arrived and stayed for some ice cold home-made elderflower cordial. It’s so refreshing in this weather. Our friends asked if we’d taken a photo of the bird.
“Ew no!” I said, “that would be weird!”
“And standing around for 10 minutes in public drawing a little corpse isn’t?” they asked.
Hmm. Fair comment. Drawn into my A5 cloth-bound sketchbook, prepared with ripped brown wrapping paper, with Faber Castell Pitt pens, sizes S, F and B in sepia. I added a grey ink wash later.
I might borrow this idea of the prepared page for some practice. I love the effects.
It’s great and you can use different papers. You can get some nice packs of recycled sari papers in craft shops.
Lovely drawing . And I agree, love drawing dead things, they can be such beautiful objects.
thank you. The opportunity presented itself….
Great!
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Great image….
Thank you for reblogging 🙂
My pleasure! I think you’ll like the ravishing beasts website from the log of your blog.
Hey, this is a really great image. Have you seen this website on taxidermy in all its fantastical forms…. http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/
Thank you. I haven’t seen the website but I’ll check it out 🙂
Dead animals/birds really know how to hold a pose! Good for you to stop and sketch it (And very nicely captured!) 🙂
Thank you. It was easy compared to Sparta 🙂
Hahaha!
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