The tutor for week 3 of Sketchbook Skool is the fabulous Prashant Miranda - I loved his gentle, laid back style of teaching. His videos were filmed in India and he showed us how to do a graduated watercolour wash. The demo video was filmed at a beach in Goa, bringing back happy memories of the two months I spent in Goa in 2009. Homework was to paint our own watercolour sky so I painted the beach here in Uist which is just a 10 minute walk from home. I'd been waiting a few days as the sky had been overcast but today was glorious, 24.8'C - just about as good as it gets here in the far-flung north west. I would so love to be able to draw birds. Birds are my big passion in life but my usual efforts at drawing them are at best pathetic - i'm not being unduly unkind to myself, it's true! Perhaps because I'm so familiar with the subject I get uptight about it. I know that when i'm looking at other people's bird art I usually start off by checking whether they have drawn in the correct number of primary, secondary and tail feathers. Sad but true! I wanted to draw some birds into the beach scene, there were small flocks of Sanderling flying along the shoreline and a few gulls over the water plus a couple of Redshank feeding on the sand. I have the rather ancient book Drawing Birds by John Busby so looked in there for some advice on adding a few stylised birds. Here is the result.
Askernish Beach
Well i'm off up to the Isle of Lewis tomorrow and will be staying until Monday, my sketchbooks and watercolours are packed so i'll see what turns up.
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