Watercolour magpie sketch
Hi there, how are you?
This week I have done absolutely nothing at all. There I said it.
The week before I had planned to scan and post the few scrappy drawings I had done and then bang, I was hit by the superbug COVID!
The illustrious other half caught it at work and brought it home to share, he needn’t have bothered.
I went to bed shivering and aching and didn’t resurface until this weekend. Bleah!
So, these are the things I would have posted last week. Magpie studies.
(above)from a photo taken in the garden a watercolour painted in the sketchbook. I’m reasonably happy with the background and twiggy bits here.
Drawn in graphite pencil these magpies (below) had to be scanned in black and white as it’s not always easy to see. These are pretty much all Pinterest magpies.
Some birds drawn with a fountain pen. It’s not easy to colour with fountain pens (I think it’s a fine nib) so I just give an impression of shading drawing the lines close together.
Fountain pen and blue ink trying and failing to show some iridescence, it was the wrong colour blue.
By this stage the drawings are getting a little more sketchy and unbeknownst to me I was starting to get sick.
I’m still coughing but my cotton wool head is slowly starting to clear and hopefully this week will soon be a soggy memory.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by. Till next time, have fun x
Sunnyfae 