A bird in hand.
Today’s piece is based on a cardinal. I also experimented with etching some linework for the feathers and other features.
bird
What are birds?
Today’s sketches cover some birdy ideas for designs that could be turned into brooches or pendants, similarly to how I painted the Callie and Marie charms. Most of these were painted with a brush pen without any pencil sketch underneath – considering that I’m pretty pleased with a couple of them.
I’m playing around with a few birds and animals, I should probably pick a design to finalise before moving onto the next animal but if you have a creature that you’d like me to sketch up let me know and I’ll see what I come up with.
Nocturne
I painted this one on Thursday but I’ve been mulling over a title for it since. At one point I considered titling it “Between”, though I’m not sure what that title would have referred to exactly. “Nocturne” came to me not long after.
Inspired this tumblr post.