Monday, November 7, 2011

Another Bird

Due to popular demand*, I am doing another (unidentified) African Bird. Got off to a good start last night and continued a bit this afternoon, but now I am looking at several days of day job so this guy will just have to wait. 





Unidentified African Bird #2, (Work in Progress), 
mixed media on paper, approx 36" x 27"
©2011 Agnes de Bethune. All Rights Reserved


*In other words, my brother liked the first one and asked if I could do another; which is what I was planning anyway. I already had this image ready to go, but it's nice to get acknowledgment and suppport.




Friday, November 4, 2011

Unknown African Bird

Unknown African Bird,2011 by Agnes de Bethune, 
mixed media on paper 36" x 33" approx.
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Unknown African Bird, (detail)
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The bird is finished, at long last. It could have been done days ago but for my obsession with the feathers. The more I worked with them, the more I wanted to. But it would have become a whole other drawing if I had kept going. The original idea for this series (on paper, mind you) was to develop imagery I might like to paint in oil on canvas. These are taking on a life of their own and have gone from quick and casual (the zebra) to this. Not necessarily a bad thing.