Sketchbook and Hare progress

[amberdreams]

It's been a while.

Sketchbooking is continuing to be interesting. I also did a one day workshop with the same tutor on mixed media.

Tonight we did minimising the palette and had a choice between full monochrome and a limited palette. I'd meant to have a go at both but ran out of time.
So here's my monochrome, sepia portrait from a stock photo

The dancer is from the workshop - white acrylic paint applied thick and rough with soft pastels over the top. It sort of worked and sort of didn't.

This page is all oil pastels with sgraffito (scratching to expose the white of either the paper or a layer of white/different coloured pastel underneath).


Now to the hare! My giraffe is most likely going to arrive on 16th March - so I now need to get a move on and finish Norwich Hareport before then. It's good to have a definite deadline, it should get me more motivated!
Here's a couple of shots to show where I'm at.
Seriously, doing the buildings round all these curves is a pain in the arse! LOL!

The river and the willow trees are getting there - I need to add some ducks (of the plastic bath tub variety to represent the annual duck race) as well as a few more trees and some plants on the feet.

Cathedral wrapping round the legs! Meep!

The Guildhall and the market square and the lion have all been redone. The Guildhall spire thingy was all wrong before - that'll teach me to not check my reference pics!

Oh and I added a startled pigeon for fun.

Then I just need to go over the flying hares and I'll be done.

Comments

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

I quite like the swimmer. And the hares! Giraffes next? My, my. :)

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Wow! All of them look fantastic!!! The hare is incredible *bows head*

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

the hare looks so good! i love the startled pigeon. the lion's pretty great too.

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

Doing the buildings around all the curves looks really difficult but it's looking good. I love the pigeon. 8-)

[finchandsparrow.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, all of this is beautiful! I love the boy in the monochrome portrait. And I really love the dancer one: such a beautiful portrayal of movement and line and human form!! <333 I can't imagine how difficult it is to plot and paint all of that architecture and scenery around all of the curves in the hare sculpture, but you've made it look fabulous! I'm quite fond of the pigeon, as well. :D

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

I love the dancer - so beautiful! I have no idea how you've managed to paint around all those curves. I'm very excited to see the giraffe once it arrives. I hope it's not too tall - how will you paint it?!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, I love the startled pigeon! It must be really tricky to paint on curves, especially around legs. You do like a challenge, don't you?! *applauds*

[nomercles.livejournal.com]

If I had money, I would buy that dancer from you. That's incredible. I love the movement of it, and the caught-in-amber feeling of it, at the same time.

[hugemind.livejournal.com]

These are all wonderful! <3

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

I'd love to take a class like that. Been awhile since 3rd level costume design and basic set design. lol.

[sillie]

Love your sketches, and the hare is looking amazing already.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

This is gonna sound quite stalkerish, but in for a penny, right? LOL! I do so adore when you post your sketchbook progress and the sculpture paintings, it's like a little ray of sunshine. I can always rely on you to bring a bit of creativity to my flist :) That Cathedral must have taken an AGE to actually get plotted out and painted in. O.o I'm in awe.