Mountaineer

Underpainting

Some people have been asking me some questions about how that last watercolour went down. The answer is, of course, swearing and prayer. In any case, I also started with an underpainting. Nobody told me to do that, so I'm not sure it's going to work every time, but I sure hope it works this time because it's already done!

Sorry these pictures are sucky - watercolour is pretty unphotogenic.

On the table

Recently I've been trying to get back into watercolours. At first I chose the wrong colours I think. I was lucky because my co-workers know a lot more than me about painting and kind of steered me back on course.



Watercolours is kind of difficult but I'm so excited by all the colours that I don't feel so discouraged most of the time. I mess up a lot though. Like, 50% of the time I make something that is completely unusable.

It's kind of fun sometimes to do something you don't know how to do, I guess.

On the table

On the table

The fox is dead. Long live the wolf.

On the table

Homework!

Bye-bye birdoes

Birds are done, off they go to Toronto. Here are some pictures I took of them.









These pictures are terrible, and I am sorry for that. I just don't have a knack for it. I'd be really happy for any advice, so don't hold back.

Giant birds again

Here's an update on the giant bird project. Some of you may notice subtle differences. I had to scrap the first effort as I was losing the interior. Am I fast or what?!

On the table

Humungous bird thing. Hopefully it will be fun to do and I will want to talk about it when it's done. Stay tuned.









On the other table:

On the table...

Have some numbermans why don't you!

On the table

Birds en vrac!