The new bird
Sometimes it is fun to create something new from something that would have been discarded. This was originally a tiny piece of offcut mount board that I had used to flick colour on to a painting. The build up of colours was really interesting so I decide to turn what would have been a discarded piece of card into a tiny painting.
How did I decide what to draw? Well I let the paint marks tell me that!
I looked closely at the shapes that had been randomly formed by the paint. The first shape I saw was the grey shape of a leg, I used my pencil to outline the shape and then looked for the next shape to tell me what the leg would be attached to. Above the leg was a yellow mark that had the potential to be a wing, I drew the outline around the wing and from there used the other paint marks to guide me as I drew in the shape of a bird.
I then used pen and paint to build up the design further and add some pattern and details.