sea-ibex? This one is not from a National Geographic
ALT: ink drawing of on odd critter apparently posing in what could be a kelp bed. It has a head like some kind of ungulant, with deer-like ears and ibex horns, but the body is more like a shrimp.
incoming
ALT: ink sketch of an owl, close approach on the wing. Purple background, yellow eyes, wings furling toward landing or striking. Yes, I am mining my old National Geographics for animal photos to sketch, and yes, it is highly enjoyable.
cool chameleon
ALT: ink sketch in teal with black lines, showing a chameleon gripping a twig, with one front leg upraised. It has a tail curled in a tight spiral, and stripes on body and tail. What an amazing looking beast! (another National Geographic photo used as a reference)
birditude
ALT: ink sketch of a parrot (reference was a National Geographic photo) perched on a stick, with a sort of thorn halo around it. Purple head, green red and yellow body, and an expression that’s a peering glare.
better a disaster than a bore
ALT: ink drawing of a very messy, disheveled crow on the ground looking maybe at some garbage. The background is a sort of plaid grid in blue and pink, with some pretty but random ornamentation. That was the original part, but it didn’t feel like anything and I didn’t want to just leave it as it was, hence the crow.
we admire the spring
ALT: ink drawing, black lines with some loose color washes. There’s a tall thin vase with two daffodils and some kind of blue flower looking quite jaunty. From the left edge of the picture peers what could be three faces, or maybe they’re just more weird flowers. The vase is flanked by two vertical strips of imaginary writing that looks like it’s trying to be Japanese calligraphy but giving up and melting when it reaches the bottom.
tidal shift
ALT: abstract ink painting. blue, green and magenta swirling lines, and some red starry spots around the upper left part of the shapes. there’s a lot of flowing motion, generally between lower left and upper right, and a feeling of liquid flow. Oh, it also somehow reminds me of a scarab beetle. maybe just the colors.
to rest
ALT: calligraphic doodle that could be read as a sleeping person on, or floating above, a soft surface, gently rolling hills on the horizon and a red spiral of sun behind clouds setting on the left side of the picture.
here are those flowers again, with even more colors. Still not finished, I don’t think.
ALT: the three flowers under a flower sun picture again, but now all the white areas are filled in, and the “sun” is a rather lurid blue and orange ring. Not sure I love the color balance yet.
flower of suns, again (still unfinished)
Yes indeed, it’s just yesterday’s drawing, but now with more colors.
ALT: Same description as yesterday, but now the faces have color, the ground is greener, the dandelion and marigold are painted in, and some outlines tidied up. (yesterday’s description: ink painting of three flowers shaped sort of like daisies, but pink and purple, and having faces in their centers. The top one is smiling open-mouthed, just under is one that looks sort of skeptical, and the third stands apart looking a bit zoned out. Not yet colored in there’s a fairly normal looking dandelion and a marigold. The sky is filled with a sun that is really just another big flowers with petals that cover the whole background of the picture.)
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