January 30 x 30 Challenge # 28 Dinnertime

January 30 x 30 Challenge  # 28 Dinnertime

Caretaker brought in a HUGE tray of goodies.... they get regular food as well... Geese and ducks diving in... the geese win out... cropped image liked the negative patterns as well as the geese.

20 x 20 Heavy brown paper. Neocolor I wax pastels plus pencil and medium.

January 30 x 30 Challenge #25 Going Walking

January 30 x 30 Challenge  # Going Walking

I took a lot of geese and ducks photos... Luckily many were taken with my Canon G11 so I have good  HD raw files to work with for cropping and then blurring..First I crop the image to the size of the format. Then sometimes I make another letter to blur to see the main areas. Then sometimes I have to move stuff like the goose on the right was moved in closer.  This is a cropped version of three geese probably running away from me at the time.  I find the geese so human like with their expressions.  This was done with a sketch which I brush down with liquin then I sketched dry. See progress image...

20 x 20 Heavy brown paper. Neocolor I wax pastels with pencils and medium.

Finished  

Preliminary sketch before medium

I wanted to scan after the medium was applied and dried... oops forgot!!!

January 30 x 30 Challenge # 20 Tasty

January 30 x 30 Challenge  # 20  Tasty

Another goofy goose.... this guy think a piece of carton could be tasty!!!

20 x 20 cm heavy brown paper. Neocolor I wax pastels plus pencils and medium.

January 30 x 30 Challenge # 10 Inquisitve

January 30 x 30 Challenge  # 10 Inquisitive

Here is another very inquisitive goose....  yesterday we visited the spa but we couldn't go outside because it way too stormy..... rain to and back.... but the baths were delicious....

Another 20 x 20 Heavy brown paper..Neocolor I wax pastels and pencil

January 30 x 30 Challenge # 9 Angry Goose

January 30 x 30 Challenge  # 9 Angry Goose

Since I remember there have always been ducks in the drainage pool..... (everyday they empty the bath pools to this outside pool).... but lately they have added some geese.  The duck are very wary of people but these geese are very "chutzpah" and come in very close, even nipping, looking for any food..... I got some really great closeups....

20 x 20  Heavy brown paper Caran d'ache neocolor I wax pastels and pencils