Finished charcoal drawing

I finally have a picture of my finished bird! I do still need to get a better pic, but this is how he looked up on the wall in the gallery, still as can be. The finished piece was 22x30". I spent a ridiculous amount of time on it, but it's been one of my favourite artworks to work on to date.

More pics coming very soon! 

Finally done

This is the piece that's been taking up ALL my time. It's been on the go for months, and I can't believe it's finally done! 

To test out the video on my phone, I filmed myself for nearly half an our while I was working on this piece. 27 minutes to be exact. I completely forgot about the camera, and when I played the video back I could hear all the birds and frogs outside my art room window, above the sound of my scratchy pencils.

I'll have to figure out how I can post a portion of the video on here, though it is absolutely appalling how little I got done in 27 minutes. It was a bit of a wake up call. No wonder it takes me so long to finish anything!

Tiny Progress

Still going on this bird piece. I can't quite decide where to stop - whether to leave it un-finished, or faded away at the edges... I'm still having fun working on the feathers while I decide though!

Sturdy.

I finally bought myself a proper easel last week. Usually I only use my desk easel, which is fine most of the time, but once I'm sitting a heavy board on it and extending it over the edge of my desk, the whole thing just overbalances and topples if you breath wrong. So, it's nice to be able to work on a large artwork without having to tiptoe around it for fear of a crash-bang disaster. (Even if it does take up even more room in my little 3 x 3m studio.)

I was hoping to enter this piece in a drawing show, but now I'm saving it for something a little later in the year, which will allow me plenty of time to get obsessive over little details. I just need to remember come summertime, that the top of the easel extends just up between the blades of my ceiling fan, or the crash-bang disasters will return...