Bird Watercolours

[amberdreams]

It's World Watercolour Month and I've been doing a few outside of the various fandom challenges, so thought I might as well post them here.

I got a nice small square book with an adorable owl cover, so I decided the obvious thing to put in it was birds. It's Arches 200gsm paper, not too many pages and so shouldn't be impossibly daunting to fill. That's the theory anyway!

So far I've done three birdies.
A frequent visitor to our garden at home, the dopey Wood Pigeon. Ink and wash.

Yet to see one in the wild - the barn owl.

Jude the house hen, companion to reapertownusa

I'm still in two minds whether to go for just watercolour, or ink and wash so I think the birds will be vary the options a bit. I may add some ink to Jude, because there's a lot of texture in her feathers...though I am quite liking her like this so, maybe not. 

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

These are all lovely, but my whole self lit up at the owl! Absolutely *gorgeous! *

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I admit I was best pleased with the wol! Glad you liked her too.

[sandy79.livejournal.com]

As always, gorgeous works, Amber, but I love the barn owl the most 💕

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Me too — owls are so pretty. Thank you!

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really love these! They are each quite fantastic in their own way. I think Jude is my favourite, so much personality. Bird's eyes are difficult, but you do them extremely well.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I think Jude in real life is a real character, from that reaper used to post.

[galatera-grass.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful work. All birds are good

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

The barn owl is so delicate. Oh... ♥

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

such a cute derpy pigeon! it's going for a very cheerful walk. jude looks both supercilious and skeptical. a very "oh really?" expression. i love it. and the owl is just gorgeous.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Wood pigeons are so dopey! 😂