Before I move on to this weeks sketching session with my sister, I present "Annette the first". The first, because I had so much fun drawing her and coloring her in, you know there will be an "Annette the second".
This week I sketched a bird - not just any bird. A woodpecker. Not just any woodpecker. A gilded flicker. A gilded flicker who just happens to look like he ran into that tree and re-arranged his beak in the process.
One of his relatives came to my goldfinch feeder Sunday morning and I had never seen one before. The spotted breast was amazing. In real life I mean. I did my best to capture it here.
Topics of conversation this week included: the chevy malibu, car max, white carpet covered dashboards, and how to make a dark brown from the watercolors in your pan.
I then thought it would be a good idea to try and capture a scene from the walk Chris and I did on Saturday. Naked trees should be easy to draw. Au contraire.
For my final selection I tackled the daffodil from another angle.
By this point in the session I was laughing so hard I almost spilled the last sip of my ice cold cosmo so we called it quits. For all out FUN - facetime sketchtime can not be beat.
Brilliant sketches! I love the daffodil - I am in daffodil mode right now! xx
Posted by: Amy at love made my home | 03/24/2015 at 06:01 AM
Love all your sketches!! What fun facetime sketching must be!!
Posted by: Janet Ghio | 03/24/2015 at 07:37 AM
You girls have the best time...laughter is therapy of the best kind, isn't it? And bonus, it's free!
Your gilded flicker can be found not far from my home near Searchlight, NV. A most handsome bird. We commonly see the Northern Flicker, Red Shafted race, here. They winter in the desert valleys. The first time I saw one in my yard it was "anting" a behavior they have mastered for literally picking ants out of the soil. They also let the ants crawl on them, supposedly the acid produced by the ants is beneficial to the birds by killing parasites! Lovely symbiosis, eh?
Keep up the good fun and sketching via FaceTime/Skype.
Posted by: Joan | 03/25/2015 at 10:53 AM