Birthday!

Today is my birthday!
.. will be back tomorrow :)

In the meantime, take a look at an older painting... modelled on the three of us!

T2

I've added the darker tones, and I think I'm finished.

Meet :                                

T2

Inktense pencils can be wetted, by doing so the colour will be intensified and it will look more like a painting.
However, I quite like the way this picture has turned out, so I shan't be wetting it.

Stages 5 & 6

Just for my impatient followers - you know who you are - you are going to get two stages today :)

Both background , firstly the under layer of yellow and then the top layers of field green, teal blue and indigo.

 I need to do some darker tones in the background. That will be next and then I think it'll be finished. That should be tomorrow.

Stage 4

The platform support that the tiger was resting on has had its first few layers of colour applied.  Next will be to start the background.
Layer after layer of applying colour using pencils is quite hard on hands and wrists. I've had to take a few breaks from creating this. Painting is easier!

Stage 3

Second colour, Mustard is now on the tiger

Here you can see how this textured paper picks up the colour from the pencils

and here's the second layer of the same colour

Because the paper has texture, the colour from the pencils doesn't get right into the grooves, unless forced. I'm not going to force it into every valley, because I like the lighter sections. I think it helps give character.

Stage 2

I started by laying down an under - colour on the Tiger.
For this I used a Sunshine Yellow.

I intend to blend another colour on top of it, to give a truer tiger colouring.

Stages with Inktense pencils

After drawing the mints, I thought to try a more detailed picture with the Inktense pencils.

This is the drawing, from a photo my friend Lynne took at a wildlife sanctuary; which she kindly gave me permission to use.

I used a sheet from my Strathmore pad to draw upon.