Leisure Painter — June 2017

16 JUNE 2017 http://www.painters-online.co.uk

Watercolour

Consider how you might introduce humour

or even humanise the animal by giving it

words suggesting thoughts. Give the piece a

title on the paper if you feel so inclined.

TRY THIS!

DavidBellamy

Find out about David and his work at http://www.davidbellamy.co.uk.

Look out in next month’s issue for news of David’s latest book,

David Bellamy’s Arctic Light, published by Search Press, and

meet him at Patchings Art, Craft & Photography Festival in July

where he will be a guest demonstrator (see page 6 for details).

excellent first attempt to create a montage. Try

to make each of the poses slightly different and,

if possible, in some sort of sequence. Add the

lettering – give the beast a name if you wish –

and once you are happy with the overall

effect transfer the image on to watercolour

paper or canvas, and use whatever medium

you like to add colour.

Pencil sketch of a young leopard in the Serengeti.This rather

forlorn-looking male leopard was sitting on a termite hill and had

probably been abandoned by its mother, as is the normal case

when leopards become old enough to look after themselves. I

made several drawings of him in various poses, some of which had

to be abandoned when he moved into a different position. This is

the sort of work that is ideal to turn into a montage, perhaps

progressing from the rather cheesed-off expression, through being

down-right disgusted with mum then on to action, slinking through

the prairie grass in search of a tasty morsel.

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One exercise you might like to try is to draw

out a rough series of postures of the leopard

from my page of sketches. You don’t need a

lot of detail; in fact this would make an

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