Animal & Wildlife Challenge, August 2024

[Queen Bee]

Colored pencil 7x7 on Vellum Bristol

 

[Queen Bee]

Moscatel, Your Rhino is wonderful. Your color choices were outstanding.

 

[moscatel]

Joy, thank you so much! It didn't take me more than an hour to do this sketch. I guess I'm impatient these days .. want to do things quickly.
Your Rhino reference is so gorgeous that I'm tempted to do also a pencil drawing of him.

Joe, PaintBoss, Vivien, Jo Castillo thank you!

Queen Bee, thanks! Beautiful color pencil drawing of the bird!
I don't know what kind of bird it is since we don't have it here where I'm.

 

[moscatel]

Joy, Your crestedtit is beautiful.

Now I found it. Thank you, Queen Bee, for the name. We do actually have this bird here too from the south coast all the way up to southern Lapland.

 

[Jo Castillo]

moscatel, your Rhino does look gentle and kind. They are so powerful! Great job!

Queenbee, your crested tit is so lively. Fun.

 

[moscatel]

Jo, thank you!

 

[PaintBoss]

That is a sweet little drawing Bee!

 

[Queen Bee]

9x12 Acrylic

Ink and Gold Leaf Pen on cold press watercolor paper.
Not great art but a lot of fun to do. Hope this is colorful enough for your challenge, Joy.

 

[PaintBoss]

I love it! What s creative , fun piece!

 

[Christel]

My rhino in graphite, A4

 

[PaintBoss]

Stunning work Christel!

 

[eyepaint]

I'll post my contribution and then return with comments. Ink, 8.5"x11" printer paper.

Cheers,

 

[eyepaint]

PaintBoss/Christine - whoo hoo with your Roo! Does your nephew live in Australia?
Joy - oh yay this is a splendid little bird
moscatel - lovely kitty Oooh another cat portrait - splendid. Thank goodness that paper is odorless if the paper is from elephant poo I remember a few years ago (ooh maybe 20 years ago) with Monkey Poo Coffee - https://aboveaveragecoffee.com/monkey-poop-coffee/ Oh yay Rhino is wonderful
Vivien - yay another roo with sparkly eyes
QueenBee - love the zoom in on that bird head. Oh what a fun colourful kitty
Christel - awwww lovely rhino

 

[PaintBoss]

Eyepaint, thank you and… nice work! (I love the variation on these challenges).
Great design!

 

[Joy]

Well, I have no idea of what happened that I stopped getting notifications (under the bell icon) for this thread this week. Other threads I follow still have notifications. Soooo glad you are continuing to post, and apologies for the tardy comments. I was wondering what had happened to all the usual participants. Another entry by me was started, so I hope to get it done by the end of the month.

Deborah - The tit is really cheery, and the eye is captured well. And, yes, that cat is sure colorful enough for me!
Christel - Fabulous values and rendering, as usual. Is this on toned paper?
EP - We always enjoy your compositions.

 

[PaintBoss]

I’ve noticed that the notifications aren’t always getting to me on some threads too.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Queen Bee, you really went all in on the challenge. I love the kitty with the gold highlights. Fun!!

Christel, such a gorgeous Rhino. (can they be gorgeous??) I like your hatching and shading, makes him come alive.

eyepaint, love your take on the animals. Black and white makes them fresh and happy. They would make a fun book. Maybe a quilt. I just love, love them.

 

[Christel]

Thanks for the comments. It's white paper but my photo isn't quite adjusted to the right temp value

 

[Artyczar]

Re: the notifications, I know that sometimes the forum software can be buggy in this regard. I'll talk to Hannah about it. Sorry for this.

 

[joe1It]

Wonderful art.
My attempt
Digital draw