Bird Mixed Medium Project

Process                                                                    09/25 to present

For the starting point of this project, I wanted to draw, and or paint an interesting bird with vibrant colors. Luckily, I have some pictures of my own from the parrots at the Jungle Gardens in Sarasota. After choosing my reference picture from my photos I took, I decided to work with the bottom layer medium of the bird, being watercolor pencils, and the finishing texture on top being ink pens. I wanted to continue using the watercolor because I feel that it covers the entire surface of the bird, not leaving any white marks like the ink pens alone would do. This helped bring out more vibrant colors and really made the bird pop. I am still working on the bird's final touches of texture with the ink pens, and haven't decided which medium I should use to complete the parrot's eye.

Judgment

I really enjoy how the colors and texture have turned out, although the overlapping of my ink pens have left some smudges and small blemishes on the bird's body. Other than this, I am enjoying my revisit into the subject of birds, and am happy the way these two mediums have really coincided and accented one another.

                                            reference photos

                                       

                                Beginning Stages

                                                

                                                Middle Stages