I'm Even Practicing Animal Faces
Finding something to sketch every evening is sometimes hard. I feel like Danny Gregory when he said that he sketched everything in his apartment. Sometimes I work on faces and figures. This week I also painted animal faces from my reference photos. Here are my giraffe and rhino! I specifically wanted to work on watercolor glazing, although I'm really impatient and don't always allow layers to dry properly!
Comments
These are beautiful! Your colors and shading are perfect. Kinda' cute too.
Posted by: Jenny | April 13, 2008 11:13 AM
just beautiful wc!
Posted by: Margaret Hunt | April 13, 2008 11:19 AM
Looks like you got the glaze thing down. I can relate to that ( the not waiting long enough to let the paint dry) it's one of my biggest pitfalls! Love that "do" on the giraffe's horns...
Posted by: Tami | April 13, 2008 12:08 PM
Goodness, Shirley, your Rhino leaps right off the page. He's beautiful!!!!! It's a beautiful sketch and watercolour and your use of colour is perfect. Brava! And that's not to say the giraffe is second best either. Lovely, lovely work. But I want that Rhino!
Posted by: RobynS | April 13, 2008 12:49 PM
Shirley, these are just wonderful! Since I have been doing portraits I have found that animals are not that different.
Posted by: teric | April 13, 2008 2:04 PM
Lovely animal paintings, they really are great. We have started Animal Wednesday, come and join sometime (post on your own blog - very informal!)
Posted by: Mim Stella | April 13, 2008 2:32 PM
Wonderful colours. Yep, I feel I've sketched just about everything from my sofa time and time again. Now, what I have to decide is....do I carry on or do I move my lazy back side to a different chair?
Hmmm....toughie! LOL!
Posted by: Anita Davies | April 13, 2008 5:05 PM
Oh these are awesome! I really like them both. You did a great job here!
Posted by: nina johansson | April 13, 2008 5:10 PM
Both of these are stunning...beautiful watercolor technique...and I love the palette you used too! :)
Posted by: Margaret | April 13, 2008 5:15 PM
Shirley -- these are MARVELOUS!! Those faces are worthy of cards or a frame -- friendly, well well done -- SUPER SUPER JOB, cara!
Posted by: lin | April 13, 2008 5:36 PM
Rhino is fabulous ! Lovely paintings. It remembered me I have to visit ZOO for sketching.
Posted by: JaKo | April 13, 2008 5:41 PM
I like the rhino the best. What a great face. I love the way the washes turned out. Both of these are wonderful paintings!
Posted by: Mellanie | April 14, 2008 2:07 PM
Oh My Lord, Shriley these are outstanding they could easily be in a children's book !! They are soft and expressive and just Adorable, even the rhino is adorable!
Posted by: sandy | April 14, 2008 3:22 PM
Have been away for a little while and its fab to be back catching up on your blog. LOVE the rhino .... and the earlier post with the drawings of your grandchild's little hands/feet ... Oh my, how wonderful!
Posted by: Mithi | April 14, 2008 5:52 PM
These are wonderful Shirley ... and I've always loved the comments you make about your drawings and the processes and thoughts you go through!
Posted by: Mariana | April 16, 2008 6:36 AM
That rhino is fabulous! You got the texture of his skin (or is it called hide?) just perfectly.
Posted by: Jana Bouc | April 21, 2008 3:17 AM
These animals are wonderful. You're a real master with the watercolour.
Posted by: Wendy | April 27, 2008 5:50 AM
I'll just second all the previous comments - I love your rhino.
Posted by: alison | April 29, 2008 8:29 AM