Cocker spaniel in graphite - WIP video

Hi I've made a small video with steps from my drawing of a black Cocker Spaniel.

Ara - wip in cp

Here is a small wip of a ara in colored pencils.
I've drawn the bird using both grids and tracing. I was getting quite cross-eyed with the feathers using grids, so I checked and corrected with tracing afterwards.
I made a "grisaille" pattern with a dark-violet color, and added local-colors upon; A variaty of blue hues.
the drawing measures 10 x 20 centimetre, but it took around 12 hours to complete, due to many layers....

Restriction on comments

Sorry, but having some real nasty comments in my blog I have to make restrictions on comments, so that I have to approve of your comments. I still hope that some of you nice people out there will comment my work. Always makes me happy :)
Lene

Amazonas - the Roof

I had this idea of drawing and painting motifs from the Rainforest. In this case it is from Amazonas. On the thumbnail my idea is sketched in small format. I have photos from a rainforest-zoo and ordinary zoo that I used for reference. Then I composed the view. I really wanted to show that we look at the top of the trees, hence the title : "Amazonas - The Roof".
I find the sloth a very strange and interesting animal and wanted to draw it. The parrots with their beautiful colors are painted as a pair, to balance with the larger sloth.
I underpainted with watersoluble colored pencil - dark sepia, and then layers of ordinary cp's on top. Size is 21 x 35 centimetre.

Two of a Kind

My latest cp-drawing "Two of a Kind" - jaguars. It is 19x29 cm on mountboard. This took me 20 + hours to complete, especially the black panther includes multiple layers of color.
17. january:
To show some steps of the process

I have drawn a composition made from 2 different photos from a Zoo. I draw the composition via a grid for accurracy. The whiskers are impressed.

The eyes are very important, so I paint those first. Want to achieve the glow of cats eyes, and the strong look of these particular jaguars.
Later in the process, I change the black panthers eye - so far it is true to the reference, but I like it to be more open.

I start the fur. I've made some color-tests in advance. I use strokes in fur-direction.

Building up fur...

The spotted fur is build up. It takes less layers than the black cat. It is important to make the spots look like fur, by either overlapping the lighter fur or let the lighter fur overlap the black spot.
(I am sorry about the hype, cannot seem to control it in blogspot !?!)

Black Labrador

This is a drawing of Milla, a beautiful black labrador. She is drawn in graphite, size 22x25 cm

Greek Dogs - sponsored gifts

I am glad that my sponsor prints for Greek Dogs has brought in 510 Danish kroner. Together with other art sponsored the money will go to help the dogs in need.

Juried into Art Horse Magazine Show

WOW - I am so proud to tell you that my "Oldenburger Horse" drawing has been juried into the Art Horse Magazine show. It will appear on their online show + bee published in the Show book.
I am so glad for this recognition

Link

Shire and Appletrees in Bloom

With this colored pencil drawing I wanted a mood of sunshine, calmness and harmony. The large Shire-horse is walking slowly and relaxed in the high grass under the blooming appletrees.

Greek Dogs - update

Hi
an update on my last post about the Greek Dog sponsor-prints.
They have chosen these 3 prints. If you wanna support the good work they do, they will be on sale from their site for Christmas. All money goes to the work they do.

Black&White - Siberian Husky

My latest drawing/painting is of a beautiful Siberian Husky. I call it "Black&White".
I used watersoluble cp's, cp's and a little ink and acrylic for this.

I have tried ws cp's earlier with no luck, but not giving up on them, I decided to try again. And I found this time they worked fine ;)

Here pics from the progress, the finished painting can also be seen on my webpage / Picasaalbum

Greek Dogs

Hi
Just as last year I was contacted by the "Greek Dog"-association, asking if I would sponsor their work of rescuing dogs from Greece.
Last year I made a Christmas-card especially for them, this year I sponsor with prints for auction.
I am looking forward to see which prints they choose and hope they will bring in money for the good work.
You can read about some of the dogs here:
http://www.greek-straydogs.eu/index.htm

mainpage (in Danish) http://www.graeskehunde.dk/index.htm

Dias-show colored pencil work

Hi
here is a dias-show showing my colored pencil work:


diasshow

You can change the speed yourself and if you wanna see text or not.