Crested Firehawk
Watercolor, 6x8"
A fun little painting of a fictional raptor species. I had an urge to do a red-and-black colorway, and this was the result.
June 18, 2009
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4 comments:
this is beautiful, I love the color!!
Thanks, Albert.
Ahhh, the branches are so beautiful! That background is amazing. I also love the contrast with the eyes and the sky.
Concrit:
Just for future stuff, I think the perched balance of the hawk could really be more solid-- it doesn't feel like it has any weight on its feet (the ankle joint is popped up funny/over-rotated), and it's leaning forward in a way that looks unbalanced, even if it's just that the tail looks very light compared to the meaty neck. The wings are attached oddly, as if from a costume, because the secondaries are not showing on top-- they (and the radius+ulna of the wing) are folded on *top* of the primaries, and could be smooth and strong (and somewhat stylized) like the neck, since that's the majority of the wing muscle. Even just leaving the smaller top feathers sketched in looser would help-- right now, in scaley tight rows, it looks it's only the end part of the wing, covets and primaries. (http://www.artcountrycanada.com/images/bateman-ready_for_flight-peregrine_falcon.jpg Sorry, I know refing Bateman is like cheating, but it's a nice study of the loose mixing of feathers in that area.)
the color is simply amazing; I love how you paint birds!
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