I had a mighty battle trying to render the metallic shine, and didn't quite succeed...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Broken bottle
What is dangerous trash to everyone else, is priceless treasure to the artist. I found this piece of broken bottle on a sidewalk. I picked it up because it seemed like a rather dangerous thing to leave lying around on a surface where children walk, and because I liked the way the sun's light glinted on it and fell through it. How can one not want to draw such a marvelous thing?
Saturday 2 July 2011
Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary
A nice place to kill a few hours is the Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Pretoria, where a large enclosure is home to all manner of critters, such as this steenbok:
Little egret:
And the ubiquitous Egyptian goose:
Also commonly found at the reserve is the white-faced duck:
It is a congenial place to make sketches of birds, something I try now and then when I can work up the courage to try sketching moving targets.
As one might expect, there is also a large variety of birds, especially waterbirds, such as comb ducks (a.k.a. knob-billed ducks, for obvious reasons):
Blacksmith lapwing (so named because of its call, which resembles a small hammer hitting an anvil):
Also commonly found at the reserve is the white-faced duck:
and yellow-billed duck:
Sunday 26 June 2011
Saturday 25 June 2011
Glass, metal and plastic
An empty mustard jar and penny whistle. Couldn't quite capture the metallic look of the whistle's tube. lots of other problems I can see as well, now that the thing is done! But who knows, another few hundred such sketches and they might begin to look like something.
Thursday 23 June 2011
A still life or two
Let's see if Blogger will let me post pictures now. Two recent still life setups, neither really particularly successful:
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Blogger acting up again...
Here we go again: I try to upload a picture to the blog, but the software simply flatly refuses. Well, I'll give blogger a day or two to sort out the problem, after which I suppose I'll have to go back to LiveJournal. Sigh...
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