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.

2 comments:

AMY H WHITEHOUSE said...

Simply outstanding art. I finally got a website, please visit if time permits:
http://www.AmyWhitehousePaintings.com

Susan Roux said...

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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