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I need another name for this, other than dead bird
At last finished. I think it looks OK. I need to get better photos before I take this to the framers. The camera and cable I need are being put to good use on Kangaroo Island gathering more reference pic for more birds…..live ones. lol So for this update it’s a cruddy mobile phone pic. meh.
I’ll float this image in a contemporary silver frame I think. So the roughness of the paper and deckle edges are obvious.
I’m looking for any suggestions for a title. Something poetic about death and/or the sea. I looked at the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner but it’s not an Albatross….
This is my entry into the 2011 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. Fingers X’d.
It’s been an age since I put anything up here. I just forget. duh. I plan to finish this bird on (insert some day in the future here lol) so I thought I’d better get a WIP picture…… The last I posted was a very live bird a pelican. Well this bird is a very dead one.
The rib cage is challenging. When I bought a barbequed chook for dinner one night I dismantled it and checked out the bone structure…..there was a lot of ‘oh that’s what the is’ as my cats circled me like sharks. It still doesn’t help me knowing what bones are where, as I render them in pastel and they all kind of blur over at some stage…..sigh
taped to the board still
The Art of Kay Bridge 