I only got chance to take three photos during this, our last session of the year, but they are fantastic artworks.
We have a watercolour thrush, speckled with brown and flushed with golden yellows. It has a bright red berry in its mouth. The bird comes towards us showing us its beauty, and the leaves gently lighten and fade around the edges, leaving our imaginations to fill in the rest, maybe to even imagine this bird in our own garden. This is something we actually can all see in our gardens at the moment, the birds feeding, and it is uplifting to see them.
We have a pen drawing of some large, fat rose hips (more winter food for the birds), their differing shapes have been rendered with careful observation. We can imagine their shiny scarlet hues, and we can see the dried, brown sepals that seem to waving hello to us. The leaves have been studied and drawn with great care, their shapes and inner veins delicately rendered, with the rose hips overlapping, giving depth to the drawing. We can almost feel the prickly thorns piercing our skin. Ouch!
And we have a badger, drawn with stick, dip pen and white gouache and on brown paper. The stick and dip pen are perfect for portraying the bristly fur and winter grasses under the badger, with the white gouache adding highlights to the face and further winter foliage texture. We can almost sense the badger’s aliveness, its warmth, maybe even the sounds it is making. We can imagine the badger is under the tree in which the thrush is perched, and just along from the rose hip bush, filled with birds. We can also envisage the badger is getting a snug snoozing spot ready for a nice long warm winter sleep.
Have a great break everyone!
