Ok, hopefully the mystery of what I am putting on this experimental background is now solved. Remember, I just put acrylic colors randomly on paper, sprayed it with water and put saran wrap on top and let it dry. When I turned the paper around I thought that the right-hand side looked like a tree trunk, so it pretty much told me what I'd have to paint, and I had been wanting to do a koala so that's how I got here. They are pretty strange looking animals. I am taking a lot of creative license here, using the pose photo from Susan Freeman, of PMP. I really wanted to have a good look at those button eyes and the nose/mouth on these guys are pretty unusual so I am using another reference shot that gives me a better look at the facial features. I also changed up the coloring to make it bit richer than what was in the original photo.
My quest to figure out a fur technique continues and using some advice from another artist I am trying to use the #6 round. So the base layer is put down with that and then I am back to using the flat brush to make some of the lighter hair areas that are also giving some shape to the face. I am going back in glazing some areas to also try to add some depth. You can see the difference between the more finished right side and the based in left.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having the best weekend. We finally got some rain!!!!!
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