gonna try and paint cathy (it didn't go well)

 

I like Beam Paints a lot so I'm going to try these.  I begin by applying masking fluid for the parts I want to remain white.

Washy backgrounds are looking good.  Now, can I paint the chicken.

First layer, wet in wet to get the foundations down.  

A bit darker - remembering that watercolour values are more to do with saturation than blackness or whiteness.

Although this is getting away from me a bit.  

Let's add some details.

Um... yeh.  That didn't turn out how I expected.  Interesting and it is chicken shaped, but not Cathy.  I need to practice with the Beam Paints more because they are quite a bit more vibrant than I am used to.  

Cathy

 Cathy is one of our longest living hens, or was, I suppose.  She has a funny personality.  An introvert hen, who didn't like to spend any more time with other chickens than necessary but still had her favourite five that she stuck close to at night.  Each evening she would come to the door of the human house and peck at it until we came out and she would walk us to the hen house, chattering away about her day.  

This is charcoal and coloured charcoal (whatever that is) on toned paper.  

hobbit Mill

 

I take extreme pleasure in these tiny sketches.  I don't know why, but I feel like I can go into more detail and take my time more just because it's small.  

Although, I think I liked it better at the half way point.  Perspective  is hard.  

getting bigger

 peep peep

homework

 Finally, I'm starting drawing class.  It turns out all I can draw now is chickens. 

The homework was supposed to be basic shapes, but that got dull really fast. So I bought an onion.  

Lady in charcoal

 I really like how this one turned out.

apparently, I wear jewelry now

 I've been interested in adornments.  Things we wear or do to our bodies that really aren't needed but somehow are.  Like a shiny sparkle of metal or colourful fingernails.  

I stopped wearing even a wrist watch when I found out that it could easily get caught on a ram and as the ram weighs almost four times my weight, and we are now both attached to the wrist watch... um... health and safety.

Eventually I found out I could wear a pocket watch and this would easily come unattached from me, if something got attached to it.  

Looking around lately, I wondered what else could I wear.  Brooches.

Here's my starting collection.  It's not much, but I love it.