bird sketches
graphite and watercolor
copyright 2010 Stacy L. Rowan
The dark gray and white birds are juncos. There were several flitting around taking turns at the feeder.
The brown and red bird, to the best of my knowledge, is a house finch. It flew in and out pretty quickly. It was gone so quick that I only really noticed the red on its head. I looked it up in a bird book later and followed the coloring I found there.
All sketches were done with mechanical pencil. The watercolor was added later.
4 comments:
nice sketches :) it can be so hard trying to capture birds on paper unless they are being held.
It's nice to see you using a little colour this week. I am imagining those little birds flitting about making it impossible to do any deatailed sketches. These are sweet impressions.
The information here is great. I will invite my friends here.
Thanks
Jennifer, that's what I was missing! Someone to go out and hold them still for me! It sure would have made the task easier. ;)
MJ, yes these sketches are more of an impression of the birds. That's a good way to put it. I would have liked for them to be more detailed or realistic, but that's going to take more practice. Luckily I have a lot of days left in my project. :) And I imagine I'll do more watercolor sketching once the color starts coming back to this part of the world in the spring. That's part of my plan anyway.
Thank you Anonymous. I'm glad you like what I am sharing.
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