Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Amir's Ibis

This past week's challenge was "JOY", and although I had some ideas, I didn't know how to represent them in pastel, as I'm still such a beginner in the medium. For me, joy is time spent learning this new medium, and if I look at it that way, I did succeed, because I did a painting, and learned while working on it!

My husband took this picture of an Ibis on one of his photography trips, and I thought I'd try to recreate it in pastel.


Of course, it looks like a beginner's painting, because it is, but since it takes practice to get better, I'm practicing!  At least I can tell it's supposed to be an Ibis:-)


Details: pastel, with watercolor underpainting, on 12" x 16" on  Ampersand Pastelboard.

1 comment:

Delighted Hands said...

Definitely a step or two above beginner! Very nice!