But I digress. Back to what I should be talking about - painting the owl. Just for interests sake, I took another look at the illustration board I painted on Friday and I noticed a distinct warpage of the board.
On the left is the board I painted on, on the right, a fresh board. You can see the edges have turned up a bit on the painted board. I don't particularly think this will be a problem, I just wanted to mention that it happened.
So, in continuing with the owl, I took the copy from the tracing I did last time and coated the back with some charcoal sticks I happened to have. This will give a nice transfer to the new surface.
Then I did my least favourite thing and traced the owl (again) onto the illustration board. Then, because the charcoal was very dark, but also very loose, I used my drafting brush to sweep the excess off the board (we meet again zombie owl).
Now, because I'm anal (and partly because I'm nervous to start painting the owl and have thought up a conveniently practical avoidance tactic), I thought I should repeat the painting exercise I did last time, but hopefully with better results. I chose a picture of one of our lovely tulips blooming in the front garden. This time I used a combo of natural and synthetic bristle brushes.
I've only just started it, but as you can see I've already had some difficulty with the veining. Ah well. My objective isn't to get perfect accuracy for this exercise, so much as seeing just how well I can paint on so small an area, and see how illustration board will take this very wet technique. I will continue to work on the tulip before I do anything further on the owl I think. I don't want to rush things unduly and hate what comes out :)
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