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.

Unknown African Bird

Unknown African Bird,2011 by Agnes de Bethune, 

mixed media on paper 36" x 33" approx.

©2011 Agnes de Bethune. 

All Rights Reserved

Unknown African Bird, (detail)

©2011 Agnes de Bethune. 

All Rights Reserved

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.