A-Zoo

... working on cp-painting ...

2008-04-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted recently - I am working on a cp-painting, that takes quite some time. It is my entry for the FMP Show (competition) (From My Perspective - online cp Magazine by Ann Kullberg), so I will not show it untill later. After this painting I have another in mind, also for a competition. But probably painted with watercolors.

New Blog in Danish / Ny Blog om Farveblyanter

2008-04-15T02:45:00.001-07:00

For the Danish viewers/til de danske læsere:
Jeg har oprettet en dansk blog om farveblyanter. Hvis du har interesse i farveblyanter, så kig endelig her. Kom gerne med kommentarer, eller send mig forslag via mail
http://farveblyanten.blogspot.com/

Cocker Spaniel on YouTube

2008-04-10T01:10:00.001-07:00

Steps of drawing this Cockerspaniel is now on YouTube. The animations is made of photos through the process.

Link

European Bison - graphite

2008-04-09T05:11:00.000-07:00

"European Bison" - graphite on 8 x 10,8 inches Fabriano Disengo 4 - smooth.
The bison has been exterminated in Nature in the 1900. An effort to replace groups of the animal is still going on, and there are now wildliving bisons in eastern Europe.
I have used a technique with impressed lines.

The eye is drawn with care and detailed. Several layers builds up the iris and pupil.

Textures of the horns are defined. I've used a blender to spread graphite evenly.

Fur are made of impressed lines and graphite.

Closeup of the eye and surrounding fur.

The background are build up with pencil. No blending with other tools.

Ara - wip in cp

2008-03-27T02:24:00.000-07:00

Here is a small wip of a ara in colored pencils.
I've drawn the bird using both grids and tracing. I was getting quite cross-eyed with the feathers using grids, so I checked and corrected with tracing afterwards.
I made a "grisaille" pattern with a dark-violet color, and added local-colors upon; A variaty of blue hues.
the drawing measures 10 x 20 centimetre, but it took around 12 hours to complete, due to many layers....

Restriction on comments

2008-03-06T11:39:00.000-08:00

Sorry, but having some real nasty comments in my blog I have to make restrictions on comments, so that I have to approve of your comments. I still hope that some of you nice people out there will comment my work. Always makes me happy :)
Lene

Amazonas - the Roof

2008-03-06T08:13:00.001-08:00

I had this idea of drawing and painting motifs from the Rainforest. In this case it is from Amazonas. On the thumbnail my idea is sketched in small format. I have photos from a rainforest-zoo and ordinary zoo that I used for reference. Then I composed the view. I really wanted to show that we look at the top of the trees, hence the title : "Amazonas - The Roof".
I find the sloth a very strange and interesting animal and wanted to draw it. The parrots with their beautiful colors are painted as a pair, to balance with the larger sloth.
I underpainted with watersoluble colored pencil - dark sepia, and then layers of ordinary cp's on top. Size is 21 x 35 centimetre.

Two of a Kind

2008-01-13T06:07:00.001-08:00

My latest cp-drawing "Two of a Kind" - jaguars. It is 19x29 cm on mountboard. This took me 20 + hours to complete, especially the black panther includes multiple layers of color.
17. january:
To show some steps of the process

I have drawn a composition made from 2 different photos from a Zoo. I draw the composition via a grid for accurracy. The whiskers are impressed.

The eyes are very important, so I paint those first. Want to achieve the glow of cats eyes, and the strong look of these particular jaguars.
Later in the process, I change the black panthers eye - so far it is true to the reference, but I like it to be more open.

I start the fur. I've made some color-tests in advance. I use strokes in fur-direction.

Building up fur...

The spotted fur is build up. It takes less layers than the black cat. It is important to make the spots look like fur, by either overlapping the lighter fur or let the lighter fur overlap the black spot.
(I am sorry about the hype, cannot seem to control it in blogspot !?!)

Black Labrador

2007-12-29T01:58:00.000-08:00

This is a drawing of Milla, a beautiful black labrador. She is drawn in graphite, size 22x25 cm

Greek Dogs - sponsored gifts

2007-12-20T05:42:00.000-08:00

I am glad that my sponsor prints for Greek Dogs has brought in 510 Danish kroner. Together with other art sponsored the money will go to help the dogs in need.

Juried into Art Horse Magazine Show

2007-12-08T06:25:00.000-08:00

WOW - I am so proud to tell you that my "Oldenburger Horse" drawing has been juried into the Art Horse Magazine show. It will appear on their online show + bee published in the Show book.
I am so glad for this recognition

Link

2007-11-12T23:50:00.000-08:00

"On the Lookout" - European Lynx - watercolors + watersoluble colorpencils. 21 x 46,5 cm.
This was kind of an experiment with watercolors and acrylics layered in first.

Shire and Appletrees in Bloom

2007-10-31T06:40:00.001-07:00

With this colored pencil drawing I wanted a mood of sunshine, calmness and harmony. The large Shire-horse is walking slowly and relaxed in the high grass under the blooming appletrees.

Greek Dogs - update

2007-10-13T15:28:00.000-07:00

Hi
an update on my last post about the Greek Dog sponsor-prints.
They have chosen these 3 prints. If you wanna support the good work they do, they will be on sale from their site for Christmas. All money goes to the work they do.

Black&White - Siberian Husky

2007-10-06T01:52:00.000-07:00

My latest drawing/painting is of a beautiful Siberian Husky. I call it "Black&White".
I used watersoluble cp's, cp's and a little ink and acrylic for this.

I have tried ws cp's earlier with no luck, but not giving up on them, I decided to try again. And I found this time they worked fine ;)

Here pics from the progress, the finished painting can also be seen on my webpage / Picasaalbum

Greek Dogs

2007-10-05T01:14:00.000-07:00

Hi
Just as last year I was contacted by the "Greek Dog"-association, asking if I would sponsor their work of rescuing dogs from Greece.
Last year I made a Christmas-card especially for them, this year I sponsor with prints for auction.
I am looking forward to see which prints they choose and hope they will bring in money for the good work.
You can read about some of the dogs here:
http://www.greek-straydogs.eu/index.htm

mainpage (in Danish) http://www.graeskehunde.dk/index.htm

Dias-show colored pencil work

2007-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

Hi
here is a dias-show showing my colored pencil work:

diasshow

You can change the speed yourself and if you wanna see text or not.

The Ball-game is Over

2007-08-25T01:52:00.000-07:00

my latest colorpencil drawing "The Ball-game is Over". The 4 english bulldog pups having a great time playing is now soooo tired. I've posted a couple of pics to show the progress of this drawing... The original size is 20 x 50 cm (8 x 20 inches). I sell prints of this through http://www.starving-artists.net/index.htm?~daugaard.htm (UK) and http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=18760 (USA)

"Sun Colors" - Male Lion

2007-07-22T02:42:00.000-07:00

I took the ref-photo for this painting at a zoo. The male lion had gorgeous yellow and orangebrown colors and I thought he looked so relaxed and peaceful. I made this in pastels. The original is 20 x 20 cm on Ingres paper

Grey Wolf - final update

2007-07-22T02:16:00.000-07:00

Well, I haven't been too active keeping up my Blog. Here is finally an update on the Grey Wolf, which was finished long ago.

2007-01-24T09:34:00.000-08:00

An update. This is a slow progress as I am quite limited on time, and pencil is not a fast medium ;)

update

2007-01-10T13:59:00.001-08:00

updates...

Grey Wolf - wip

2007-01-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

I've started this drawing of a Grey Wolf. It is approx. 11.6 x 14.4 inches and I use 2 specific photo-references + a couple of back-ups. This scan only shows a part as I am drawing the whole, lying wolf.

This is going to take some time, as I am now working full-time as an employee (graphic design) so have patient watching this, please... hope you enjoy it anyway

Lady - a cat who loves baskets

2006-12-05T08:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry that I haven't been around much lately here ... (several new images on http://le.daugaard.googlepages.com - be sure to check out).

Here is a wip of Lady, who is a cat who loves baskets. That is why this portrait shows her in one ;)
She is drawn as a gift from my brother to his girlfriend, who is Ladys "human". After some lurking from Lady, my brother is now accepted and allowed to pad and cuttle her .... cats often have to have a little time to accept new humans, don't they ?
The drawing is done with colored pencils.

Competition Winner - chosen drawing

2006-10-12T01:51:00.000-07:00

Charlotte chose the pencil drawing.