Sunday, May 27, 2012
Plenty to Crow About
9x12 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold pressed paper; Daniel Smith/American Journey paints., drawn yesterday in 10 minutes or so then painted in 45 minutes, part of a timed exercise on WetCanvas! This weekend drawing event host was Gail Bowers who provided 16 references and a challenge. The challenge was for us to paint something then make it appear at nighttime, which would be hard to do for a crow being black as the ace of spades! So I made this fellow as colorful as possible so he still reads as a blackbird, but he does appear to be contemplating suicide on this window ledge. Working only from a black and white image it was a real challenge to make believable with an abstract background as well.
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Simply outstanding art. I finally got a website, please visit if time permits:
http://www.AmyWhitehousePaintings.com
This is very striking. He could be thinking, why are all those people walking around when all they have to do is fly?
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