owl, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle
© 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
owl on a high branch
spies the woman in her room
writing late at night
-Related to post haiku 2 (one-a-day)
December 10, 2009 by ybonesy
owl, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle
© 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
owl on a high branch
spies the woman in her room
writing late at night
-Related to post haiku 2 (one-a-day)
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Doodling, Haiku, Nature, Practice, Skies, Things That Fly, Writing | Tagged drawing, owl drawing, owls, pen and ink drawing, the practice of doodling | 9 Comments
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Sunny picture and your words make the night into the day,
enable me to continue wonder around for sharing the gratitude for the lovely discoveries underfoot.
http://artbytomas.blogspot.com/
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ybonesy, I love this drawing. So happy to have one of your Doodles at the top of red Ravine again. I love owls! And the haiku is perfect. The little houses below and the half moon eyes. Love it.
Hey, how do you get that shade of yellow on the crossbars, kind of an ochre? Is it two mixed colors?
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Hi Tomas, it’s been a while since we’ve heard from you on red Ravine. Nice to know that you are still making art. Thanks for stopping by.
QM, I thought of you when I did this post. Certain things now make me think of you: owls, feathers, the moon. 8)
As far as the getting that color, well, you’ll have to check out my collection of markers. Remember when I first started doodling again? I used two colors, red and black. And then I added green and brown and blue. I would made gray with a pencil.
Now I must have, I don’t know, 48 colors? (Remember when we’d go from 48 colors to 64 in the crayon box, and then there was the mother of all crayon boxes, 120??–well, I’m trying to work my way up to that.) 8) But honestly, you can buy a lot of different marker colors.
I love that yellow-green color that I used in this doodle. I think the color you’re seeing is one of the two markers I have that is yellow-green. One has a hint of orange, I think, which makes it slightly darker.
You can layer marker colors just as you would paint. (Duh, but it took me some time to figure this out.) For example, in that case, I started with a pale yellow in the background. Then a dense yellow along the sides and closer to the middle, and then two different yellow-greens along the sides. Finish it off with gray, then black.
Anyway, thanks for asking, QM. I love talking markers. 8)
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Oh, how lovely!! This is one of your drawings when I have to say that it’s a favorite of mine (there are other favs), and the owl is just SO ADORABLE! Seriously! I too enjoyed the haiku/senryu combination you wrote with the drawing. 🙂
full moon–
both the owl and I think
of our place in the universe
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You and the owl are kindred spirits, A~Lotus. Thank you for dropping that in and letting me know that this is one of your favs.
My husband and daughters asked me to draw birds, so I started with the owl. I may draw a sandhill crane next, as we have three that visit us every day. They are so fun to watch. I love birds with long skinny legs. 8)
long twiggy legs
lean and strong like branches
a tree of feathers
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I love this owl…
Such great, vivid colors. So, so sweet.
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@yb: Wonderful! I can’t wait to see the bird series! That would be fun! 🙂 8) Birds are fascinating creatures. I love looking at the feather patterns.
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Thanks for dropping in, julia.
A~Lotus, I do, too. We have a bird book that describes the nuances of feather patterns. And all the right terms for the different feathers. We keep the book on a shelf in the great room, and two things we do every week is watch birds in the fields with the binoculars I got Jim for Father’s Day year before last and consult the book he and the kids got me for Mother’s Day that same year. 8) I personally should have but haven’t gotten any better at identifying birds, however.
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