Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (13)
Glendaw
Oh what a beautiful painting Andrea.
Very fascinating birds, leaves and lone worm.
You are so good at this, thanks for sharing.
XxOo
jendellas
As always, wonderful art.
Star4mation
Fantastic drawing Andrea :)
junge1
Interesting creation Andrea!
Faemike55
interesting and beautiful work, Andrea
BTW Happy Belated Birthday!
anaber
I do love this a lot! Is a majestic painting, Andrea! Feels like a 3D image. You gave to it a great depth. It is an excellent blending and choice of colors and composition--its placement in the support makes it still more imposing. Thank you for explaining how you used the medium too. AND I feel hypnotized for this 5 eyes---always feel , when you do this eyes,lol !
wysiwig
"Oil pastels, now, that's a different kettle of fish." Or maggots and leaves. I'll make it unanimous, this is stunning work. The eyes on the left look like they belong to birds.
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Just Wonderful!!!!
sossy
Outstanding work and a winner with the shadow on top 😊
kgb224
Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.
bugsnouveau
Great stuff, love it
jclP
original
anahata.c
I loved this the minute it went up. You've done pieces like this from time to time---I don't mean pastels, but the conjoined organic forms and beings, swirled into a single entity. I agree with you entirely about pastels: The sticks are a dust machine; they shred everywhere, and rarely in the right places. (Even the hard sticks, like Conte's.) Pencils are the best way, for some of us, at least. (When Helle first tried them, I warned her. But dammit if she didn't make terrific art the first time out. The medium didn't stop her a bit...)
This has the concision and intensity of a pencil drawing. Great modeling, using greens and blues for depth, reds on top of the ball, yellows at the edges of leaves. And very dark outlining, giving it a strongly articulated feeling. And the convolutions of several creatures swirled into themselves is intense and vital: It feels like a vital ganglia of life. Of course, your fans love your eyes. And it all opens up with a swirl of branches, on top, like a calligraphic curly-q. Also, I love the hue of your paper, and the shadows on it, or its coloration. A masterful drawing, Andrea. Terrific organic 'meeting'...
(For modeling space via hues, I don't know if anyone has impressed me more than Cezanne: He'll use reds or greens on the bottoms of fruit in ways that knock me out. And he'll throw in a 'stroke' of this or that hue, to accent it. A painter friend, years back, used to show me these strokes in the Art Institute ((where they have several very famous Cezannes)), and she'd say: "To die for, just to die for...")