Farming Series: Some Progress

"Farming III" - WORK IN PROGRESS

Acrylic on 18 X 24 wood panel

I've started another painting in my Farming series!

This one is of a hen with a trimmed beak. So far, I've put in about 1 or 1.5 hours of work and I'm quite pleased with the results. For the first time in recent memory, I've painted something that looks almost photo-realistic in a tiny thumbnail, so now the trick is to finish it without messing up what I have so far. It looks somewhat less rich in person* so I need to find some way to deepen the colors without undoing what I have managed to achieve so far.

*Antares disagrees with me here, but his husbandly duty is to flatter me.

Avail yourself of some avian art

BIRDS!

These are two commissioned cockatiels, painted over a year ago.

And here is my favorite of my avian paintinglettes, an American Crow:

This is the latest example of the quick paper and acrylic work and, as it happens, also a bird. The white strips were masked.

Next I want to make something very different. Large, loose, messy.

A Long Hello-Again

Rex Avium (no, not that one)

Been a while

Grad school took over for a while there. Sorry oh invisible audience.

I've decided to try oils. Finally. Here's a closeup of the result of ~4 hours of untrained oil painting. The face measures ~2.5" in height, for reference.

I suppose this is 1/2 finished, but I haven't decided how detailed I want it to get - definitely needs to be sharpened and cleaned up a lot, though.

Don't judge me too harshly now - these here are baby steps.


-Irina

New Squid

I made a new squid. The old one was eaten by puppies before it had a chance to dry.
Here she is:Sorry the photo is a teeny bit crooked.

-Irina

Hello

Here is one of my recent drawings. It's pencil and ink on tea-stained watercolor paper.

Here is another one.



I have something of a schizophrenic style, so my drawings/paintings/artbits are all quite different from one another.

More to come.