our backyard friend’s silhouettes, originally uploaded by young@art.
A warmup set, and part of my new silhouette obsession: Winsor & Newton Black Indian Ink atop delta ceramcoat atop gesso atop the pages of a Moleskine (heavy stock) sketchbook.
We have no more critters in our backyard than anyone else, but I wage that ours are the cutest, because of the quail. There’s a family, about 20 of them, that run the perimeter at dusk. The California Thrasher couple have a nest somewhere in the hedge; when we lay in the sun by the bird bath, one of them will watch us from the grapefruit tree, sometimes with a red worm in his mouth, for a half-hour or more. Hummingbirds are always fighting, and the woodpeckers have assaulted the old olive tree on their continual hunt for boring insects.
Oh, I so adore this… I’d buy this. You’re so great.
this is so cool. I wondered where you were heading with the silhouette book purchase. As an fyi, Your mom and I have conjured up an art challenge for you involving their chickens….
I love your scethcbook-pics! Amazing style and colours!
Thought you might like to see my step-son’s blog “Smooth Pebbles”:
http://dobbs.typepad.com/smoothpebbles/
You might find some interesting things there, I always do!
KH
oops: Go to the article about Crows and vending machines—-Richard would say “of course they can do that”, having experienced the intelligence of crows first hand!