Okay, so two animals. But still, the title fits. Moving away from just painting plants, I looked up in the book how to paint some animals. In this particular case I practiced painting a bird and a crab. The products shown here may not seem like much, but they are miles ahead of my first attempt at the creatures. The newspaper practice pays off. The trick with painting animals seems to be to capture the energy and life of the creature. And for someone like me who is relatively inexperienced with Sumi, I have trouble balancing that energy with trying hard to get the form correct. However, I am mostly satisfied with what you can see in the picture. I think I'll soon be done with practicing single objects at a time, and will move on to constructing scenes.
These look pretty interesting and very exciting. I understand and relate to what you are saying about having that battle between perfection and sponteneity, it is one that is hard fought with many artsits. Its because you care about craftsmanship.
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