Two weeks Ago

 Parc aux Rapides in Laval              From mid March

A great day and just before the mini summer blew through.   There would be NO ice now and I bet the marsh is almost green.    Redwing was very fortuitous caught in mid-song.

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Donkey with....

...my father (righthand donkey) on board!    circa 1959

A change of pace that might amuse.  Somewhere in Oman.   I guess they were going where landrovers could not.     Or it might have been a joke but those bullet belts look fairly serious - yes?

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Person Portrait!

A Portrait     pastel      12" x 14"

I am reasonably smug about results!   It's the first that I've had the guts to post.   A friend of a friend and, sorry, I cannot remember her name.    No drawn outline, just went in with color.   No work of art but at least it looks like the subject - a bit!   And of course that's the photo.

In pursuit of doing portraits, my attempts to date have included numerous of myself and another friend.   Masses of them, and all missed the mark by a mile.   Perhaps because the faces were TOO familiar?

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"Jenny & Her Goose"       pastel           12" x 18"

The top of the armoir is Jenny-stan - her very own stomping ground.   A long jump up too.   She shares it with the wooden goose, an antique duck decoy, a plush hawk, a plant (fake) and a tortoise lamp.  The lighting is from below, a lamp on a sidetable.   I love the way her toes curl over the edge.

 

You can't see the hawk or the tortoise here but you get the idea.   A pretty good fake plant, huh?

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Aha! JENNY!

"Aha! JENNY!"        pastel         12" x 18"

It's "Aha!" because I'm pleased.  At last.  

However, as I did it I kept wondering why I'd chosen a pic with such a weird perspective distortion of the hanging paw.  Now I'm real glad I stuck with it.   The pose is a Jenny standard:  perched as high as possible with one paw draped over the edge.  In fact in my mother's room (which abounds with Jenny photos!) about half are this pose....

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Jenny Today

Jenny 26/3         pastel         10" x 18"

Well, that's what she was doing!    Am still puzzling with how to pastel AND use her real coat colors, being grey and white.   I'll try again another day!

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Foxy Foxcubs

"Foxcubs"       pastel       8" x 10"

Never done a fox before - I was surprised how foxlike they are.   Seriously!  Oftentimes I come to draw an animal and am surprised to find that the animal is not the slightest bit like my mental image.   These guys had FOXY FACES!   Totally amazing.  

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Passing Grade

A Blue Gee         pastel        18" x 18"

Today's Jenny               pastel             12" x 18"

In both there are flaws but enough passes to make it onto the page!

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Playing with Tigers

           The Original                                       Pastel                                            Colour Pencil wi Pastel

Interesting to see them together.    The Original is a given - a handsome critter!  Next two my takes on the original.   My preference?   I lean towards the middle/pastel version simply because it isn't trying to be accurate.   The far right/mixed media demonstrates the hazards of not being totally accurate...however he has much better teeth!

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Best Scratching Post in Miles - finished

"BSPIM"       color pencil           5" x 7"

I was rather impressed with the post - that's artistic licence!    The length of the strands and the drama are pretty much dead on - angle of head more tilted up.  My main apology is not getting details in blaze accurately.   Photo is below

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Jenny & Flying Mane

"Jenny"              pastel              8" x 11"

On her favorite chair, her morning sleep - preceded by her apres breakfast snooze and to be followed by her 4 hour afternoon nap.   I do believe the lass is putting on weight!

BELOW - testing out new color crayons, Prismacolor, the obvious choice as a subject was Fan's horse with flying mane.  Not finished but gives you a sense of the potential for detailed work.

Flying Mane             Prismacolor Pencils          5" x 7"