wayfaringwordhack: (art - pondering)
wayfaringwordhack ([personal profile] wayfaringwordhack) wrote2016-01-17 06:02 pm

Snippet Sunday

I sketched quite a bit again this week, even though I didn't fill up pages and pages in my sketchbook. I discovered that some of my critters (and even the roosters, to be honest) did not and will not need so much time dedicated to them. So I took time out to do some technical exercises as well as create new things out bits of old art projects/scrap paper and color tests.

Behold watercolor blob fish:


The bodies of the fish are from a sample chart of watercolors I made for Sprout many years ago.  The recipe used cornflour, if memory serves, and so the paint goes on thick and chalky and chips pretty easily. I would have liked to put in my details with pens but didn't want to gunk up the nibs, so graphite it is, even though the lines don't pop as much.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2016-01-21 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever eaten a fish eye?

I never have! Or dissected one. I've **seen** them, up close, but that's it.

[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2016-01-21 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
We grilled fish on the BBQ today (crazy in Jan, right?), and Junebug absolutely loved it. He kept swiping pieces, and he grabbed one of the eyes and gobbed it down. :P The ball didn't bother him.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2016-01-21 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If your life were a fairytale, he'd now have special powers to see underwater.

[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2016-01-21 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL

How cool would that be!