How to ink group run through week 6

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Erin.Cortese

xin li

@Erin-Cortese this is so neat. Beautiful textures. Also love the typography for TEXTURE.

xin li

@burvantill Thank you so much.
@Braden-Hallett Thank you. I really do not know where I am going to take this style/technique next. I do not think I have allowed myself to paint so loosely before. Right now I just paint one picutre at time, building up quantity of work before figuring out where they belong to. I am consider incorprate watercolor, or playing with colored ink.

Erin.Cortese

@Braden-Hallett That is high praise, thank you

Erin.Cortese

@xin-li Thank you, I had fun with this one!

chrisaakins

And saw this flower today. Echinacea. How's this for texture?

demotlj

Not very exciting but I have completed the assignment. On to the extra credit.

chrisaakins

@demotlj these look really good.

demotlj

@chrisaakins Thanks. I hope Braden decides to do the class on light and shadow next because I’m totally guessing the cast shadows.

burvantill

@chrisaakins

burvantill

@demotlj These are good!!!

burvantill

I saw a Great Blue Heron in my yard today holding a very fat gopher in his beak. I stood and watched for a few minutes while the heron proceeded to try and shake the little fatty to death and while the little fatties legs were running wildly in hopes of escape. It took a really long time and I had the thought in my head of the gopher looking at the heron with disgust that he couldn’t just finish it already.

burvantill

@chrisaakins These are really good. I like how you did the wood. I was just using lines but your right, there is a texture of grain lines within the wood lines. Nice job

chrisaakins

@burvantill thanks!

Coley

@Erin-Cortese wow this is super impressive!

demotlj

@burvantill What’s the end of the story? Did the heron actually eat the gopher? And by gopher, do you mean what we mean here in NY by gopher - a woodchuck? I can’t imagine our herons attempting to eat woodchucks. I’m so intrigued by this story.

Erin.Cortese

@burvantill I feel bad for the gopher , but I love your drawings. I really like the contour lines on the small tree and rootball!

Erin.Cortese

@Coley Thank you!!

burvantill

@demotlj He ate it. The gophers in California are bigger than a hamster but smaller than a guinea pig, or the size of a large russet potato . He shook it about for a while until it stopped wiggling then swallowed it whole like he would a fish. It’s amazing to watch them hunt. They move so slow right up until they strike, almost like a snake. And if they miss they act like a cat that fell off a table, “I totally meant to do that”
@Erin-Cortese I think you would feel differently if you could see what they do to your yard.