here's another one like yesterday.... also with colors inspired by food...
And here's what it looked like before water...
This is to show you need very litle marker, that color moves and blends a long way once you touch it with a water filled brush. The trick is to leave some white spots showing in the final face and to rinse some color out of your brush as you go and just blend it toward the white spots with plain water. The color flows into the plain water just a touch and fades out. I did add a few marks with pencil around the eyes and then some with black permanent marker. This wasn't where I had planned to go with these faces, I was planning on more ACEO's and stories but once you start a project it just sort of moves were it wants to go, don't you think?
Plus I wanted to "Share the joy" this week.... I have been eatting lunch with the eagles...
I can't seem to get a good picture of them flying and even though you can get close to their nest I'm sure you're not supposed to , so here's a picture of their nest taken with the zoom.
You can see the mom or dad in the nest... I don't know much about eagles so I don't know which one stays in the nest and which one goes to get the food. I had been to the park that I like that overlooks the town and a couple where there eatting lunch and they lent me their binoculars to see the eagles in a nest in a tree down below. From that height you could also see an old cemetary, the family cemetary from a very well-to-do family that used to have an estate there. All that's left of it is the fence and the carriage house I think. Any way... the next day I tried to drive to that cemetary from below and when I did I found another eagles nest right along that little dirt road. Much easier to see without binoculars! I try not to go very often though as I was told you can get a ticket for harrassing the eagles if you get too close.
Here's a page from my new sketchbook of the cemetary and the eagles...
See you tomorow!
