Wild Things Artwork |
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| "Eagle's Eye View" |
18"H x 22.5"W Colored Pencil and Water Soluble Wax Pastel on Ampersand Pastelbord."Eagle's Eye View" was juried into the 2008 7th Annual International Open Exhibition of the UK Coloured Pencil Society, Royal West of England Gallery, Clifton, Bristol, Great Britain.
This piece was one of the first in which I used the aqueous capabilities of water color pencils and the Neocolor II crayons, and relatively new product by Derwent called InkTense pencils. This piece is one of the rare instances in which I set out to do a pastel painting, which I scrapped in favor of color pencil. I just could not create the crispness of the feathering on the eagle's head with the pastel I was using at the time. (Interestingly, about a year later, I have now done a bald eagle in pastel.) My subject for this piece was photographed at the Jacksonville Zoo, and I had a few reference photos with good close-ups of his head. I really liked the over- the-should point of view. This view point has given rise to series I am developing that are all views of the eye or eyes of various birds and wildlife.