This month the Colour Blast Challenge is all about birds and
a touch of colour.
I drew inspiration from the above challenge. I was also in
the mood for some quick gesture drawing, so I brought the two together to
create today’s blog for you.
I looked for an image to draw from and came across this and
thought it looked like fun to create an impressionistic painting of an ostrich. The above image can be found at here.
To watch the video of this process, go here.
So, lets begin ….
I began by stamping with a feather stamp in a dark orange
colour in a cluster in the direction of the feathers. I am looking at the ostrich on the right for
this page.
Using a palette knife I sprinkled a little of the Colour
Shimmer Dust (Sunflower) onto the page and wet with water. I ensured that the Colour Shimmer Dust was
dissolved and created the body of the ostrich with my fingers by spreading out
the colour. I flicked splatters of the
Colour Shimmer Dust with my fingers to create “feathers”.
I then picked up a small amount of Colour Shimmer Dust with
my palette knife and drew into the wet area to give the impression of feathers
and movement. And then I left it to
dry, but I did speed up the drying process with a heat gun.
As the original stamp was difficult to see under the Colour
Shimmer Dust, probably because it was a similar colour, I restamped with the
feather image and black permanent ink.
Again the stamps were placed in a cluster in the direction of the
feathers to create volume.
I unscrewed the lid of the Colour Spray (Sunset) and used the
“stalk” on the inside of the bottle to draw with. I used quick, rough gestures to create the
head, neck and legs of the ostrich, all the while using my photo as a
reference.
For my third colour according to the Colour Blast Challenge,
Colour Paste (Sienna) was scraped with a palette knife onto the darker areas of
the ostrich for a little depth.
I enjoyed doing this a lot, so I did a couple more.
This ostrich was inspired by the one in the left of the
photo. I used Colour Shimmer Dust
(Cobalt) for the body. Colour Mica
Powder (Olive Grove) for the stamping of feathers. The neck and legs was drawn with the stalk
from Colour Spray (Love).
This ostrich had Colour Shimmer Dust (Peacock) for the
body. Layered with washi tape to suggest
feather. The neck and legs were drawn
with Colour Spray (Violet) and Colour Paste (Rose Petal) was smeared over the ostrich’s
body randomly.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Selena
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