Friday, November 21, 2008

In the Mood for Camels (Mainly)

Been out to the camel farm recently (thanks for your patience, P and S!) and got all inspired again with these chaps.

This one (above, grazing, and below looking pensive) is a bit of a beauty, so I can see myself painting him/her a fair bit: must also get back to the farm and find out some names.

Did the underpainting last weekend and have been looking forward to getting some colour and depth happening.
Needed to sort the eye out (it was a bit rabid doggy in the underpaint) and the chin which was too short and shallow.
Moved the halter around a bit and am now playing with the contrasting textures of the short and long hair, the eye and the halter and the fluffy ear. This is one of those rare ones that seems just to go well from the start: a real joy to do. Not a great deal left to do really. I'll leave it to dry and them play around a bit with some glazes and the like. Tempted to leave the background just white gesso with the small touches of burnt sienna underpainting coming out from around the edges.
How to look haughty in one easy step . . .

This is from an earlier visit: trying to get the reds and oranges of the sunset light happening.


Not a camel . . . playing around with a new red/brown single pigment, which does tend to be quite red . . . had wondered about doing the whole thing in different shades and tones of red, but don't think it'll work with this one.

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