How to ink group run through week 6

[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.

[braden H]

@demotlj said in How to ink group run through week 6:

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

We'll see I might do the 'how to draw anything' course since it reinforces a LOT of what we learned here and I think I really need to hammer a lot of this home.

[braden H]

I gotta make myself a style sheet for things like rock, wood and such,

[demotlj]

@Braden-Hallett I'll join just about any class you choose because this has been a great way of learning. Besides, I'm not only learning about drawing, I'm learning about marmots and pocket gophers!