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Jun. 13th, 2021 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corviSome days you wake up and you need to paint a vulture and plum blossom monster even though it's not a traditional Chinese brush painting subject.
This is my second attempt to paint birds. The instructor hasn't shown us birds yet, but I love birds, so here we are.
This time I planned out major feathers and did one brush stroke, approximately, outlining each. I think I succeeded at portraying a bunch of feathers! Overall, I'm not sure the collection of feathers quite coalesces into a bird, but it feels like I figured some things out and I'm pleased. I am considering going back over all the feathers with a grey or brown wash to make it all a little more solid-seeming.
Here's my previous attempt at birds.
Lumpy craggy mountains look good, and lumpy wind-twisted trees look good, but lumpy birds rather less so. I don't know if I need to get better at painting precisely, or if I need to use a completely different approach for birds than I do for landscapes. There's a classic style of "Bird and Flower" paintings that are more like cartoons: you outline shapes in very fine detailed black ink and fill them in with bright colours, but that is less interesting to me.
A bird with distinctive markings might be easier than an all-black bird, too. Hm.
This is my second attempt to paint birds. The instructor hasn't shown us birds yet, but I love birds, so here we are.
This time I planned out major feathers and did one brush stroke, approximately, outlining each. I think I succeeded at portraying a bunch of feathers! Overall, I'm not sure the collection of feathers quite coalesces into a bird, but it feels like I figured some things out and I'm pleased. I am considering going back over all the feathers with a grey or brown wash to make it all a little more solid-seeming.
Here's my previous attempt at birds.
Lumpy craggy mountains look good, and lumpy wind-twisted trees look good, but lumpy birds rather less so. I don't know if I need to get better at painting precisely, or if I need to use a completely different approach for birds than I do for landscapes. There's a classic style of "Bird and Flower" paintings that are more like cartoons: you outline shapes in very fine detailed black ink and fill them in with bright colours, but that is less interesting to me.
A bird with distinctive markings might be easier than an all-black bird, too. Hm.
