2020/01/07-15, Serenity Coffee, 926, Birds
Making ink and wash inside little masking tape enclosures. I was thinking panels at first, but more irregular shapes are appealing. The tape is laid down first, well before the first line is contemplated -- often as not before I leave the house. Then sketching, usually in left to right order, a certain randomness... the subject sometimes fits the frame, sometimes not. I like the effect, the illusion of premeditation.
First, a jam session at Serenity, just happened to be there when it happened.
Next some photo ref at 926, waiting for the drag show to start. Photos taken by me of Lake Ella Muscovy Ducks and faces from the old family photo, +100 years old, of Nana, my grandmother, and her poor suffering mother - 11 kids and a husband who made a run for it.
And finally Birds, from the Wednesday Lab Session, there were six on the page but two of them were real clinkers. I like these, maybe enough to go back and touch them up, whiten up the highlights, especially on those tricky nose bridges. Hunting for the line I always end up overdrawing it, tsk. And in the line of faces on the last one, the faces should be forehead-lit all the way down, and emphasize the shadows on the back and under the jaw.
Gutters are too wide -- store-bought masking tapes comes in one-inch and up. Just got some half-inch in from Amazon, see how that goes. And then, of course, the watercolor...