Can't Resist Those Red Feet

The beautiful Red Footed Falcon.

I am sharing the steps that I went through while drawing/painting this amazing falcon.

I hope that you fall in love with his beautiful colors as much as I have.

The head was a little too chubby in my first attempt. I did like the feet though.

This one looks much better but i ran out of room for the red feet!

I decided to make use of both drawings and put them together, yet separate.

Like this -

I had to clean it up a bit and darken the lines.
It looks like this now -

And after a little PSE magic, here is the final drawing with digital paint applied.

 Of course the colors I used are a bit bolder than you would find in nature but as an artist, I am allowed that.

(aren't I?)


If so, then I am allowing a background color on this one.

No actual birds were harmed during this exercise.
I know that you are happy that I didn't chop the red feet off of a falcon while drawing this.

Drawing From Nature

I turned my attention to items that were close at hand, and favorites of mine - sticks and flowers.

Sketchbook page-
Tulip Poplar flower, Oak twig end,
eastern Red Cedar branchlet (top left)

close-up of twig

female eastern Red Cedar

female eastern cedar with berries (technically cones with fleshy scales)
watercolor

I liked the tulip poplar flower so I pulled it into Illustrator and tried a few color combos.

I am a complete newbie to digital painting or coloring.
But I can see the addiction of it...

Pen and Paper

The longer I go without blogging, the more difficult it is to start again.

Much has happened since my last post - some good, some bad, some I am indifferent to.

I do have a really fun post coming up - introducing Lyric Kinard's new Thermofax CD!
I can't wait for the blog hop and giveaway, so stay tuned for that.

I'll include a few images from random artwork I have been creating.

A lot of percolating, a lot of time spent thinking about what I want to do next.

I'll be honest here and say that I am not too sure that I want to keep going in the direction I was heading in.
Seems like everyone wants the same thing.

I want to lead a path that is truer to what I really feel led to do, instead of being lead by the motion of others.

While I have been thinking about those things, I've been drawing, a little hand stitching and writing.

I churned out a few pages of brightly colored abstract doodles.

Obviously I am orbiting around circles...

 I (evidently) lost interest in these since two of them are not finished...