Tuesday, February 5, 2013

THE ART OF MONKEYS

I have to say that the animal that I've always had the least amount of desire to draw has been the monkey. I'm not sure why, but it's just never appealed to me.  How Murphy's Law'ish that I was asked for a picture featuring not one, but THREE monkeys as a piece of wall art. Enter: PROCRASTINATION... and finally SUB... quiver,quiver ...MISSION.

The good thing about this piece is the fun I had with it - having just added soft pastel pencils to my art medium list. What a difference in confidence while painting a flat dark colored base for the characters! Since the chalky pastels do wonders for highlighting - and can be worked with, I had no anxiety of putting down the darkest color brown for my first monkey attempt. . . I knew I could work with it without feeling "stuck" with the flat color. Such a great discovery for future projects!
HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL