More Dabblings

[liralen]

akuni requested black and white bamboo and a hummingbird with cherry blossoms and was willing to pay for postage, so I tried.



First just a warmup of something that didn't come out anything like I wanted it to, but it's nicely symbolic or something....


Then the bamboo:


It that one okay, Akuni?

Then a first attempt at the hummingbird and cherry blossoms. I'm keeping this one for myself, the bird came out drabber than I liked, and the branch faded, but I like the placements a lot.


Learning from the first, I brightened up the colors and tried to flip the bird from my reference (Walter Foster's Chinese Brush Painting) and made one wing inside out, so I threw that one away. Then I finally got this:


Hope you like it, akuni.

Comments

[stark-black.livejournal.com]

I love the black and white bamboo, but, hehe, of course I do. I always love those. You do them so well. I also like the cherry blossoms in both and the humming bird in the second is fantastic. XD Really beautiful work.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grins*

You do. I'm glad you love 'em... they're always a good thing to do when I get started again...

Neat that you like the second, too!

Also... just a couple of days ago I also did these (http://liralen.livejournal.com/736933.html). And I might put a few more up tonight of what I've just done, too...

*hugs and grins* Thanks.