Saturday, February 16, 2013

Birds Flocked Together

12x18 watercolor on gessoed Crescent white matboard, drawn yesterday with Magic multicolored pencils then painted today.  First the birds were painted as the most realistic shapes, then a loose abstract background with same hues.  Allowing for surprises in this high key work, I searched for suggestions that could be leaves or flowers.  Bird colors are not real. Tree branches and twigs however, are all positive lines.  It was a bright sunny day here and birds were singing, saying that Spring is just around the corner!

2 comments:

Christiane Fortin said...

Kay wow! this is so soft and beautiful. Love the style and the colors.

Lauren Everett Finn said...

beautiful! Had to google magic mulit color pencils... and now I need to get some of those! :-)

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